FACT: The internet can often be an intimidating, overwhelming, scary and/or distracting place. That’s why I love any tool that can make my e-life easier. The more time I save searching for the perfect vintage teak chair the more time I can spend sitting in that very chair snuggling up to a vat of chocolate ice cream, watching Glee and gently weeping while I mouth the words to each song.
That’s why I LOVE crazedlist.org!
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Scotty Simpson's Fish and Chips – my favorite fish and chips place of my entire life turns 60 today. And for today only, the prices are the same as the day they opened in 1950.
Scotty's story is a cool story. It's a story about a small business lasting a lot longer than anyone thought it would. It's a story of the last business still standing from the old days in Detroit's Brightmore neighborhood.
The Detroit New wrote this great piece about it last week.
I remember years of my childhood spent at the ballpark watching my dad play baseball. Those days are marked in my mind – the sun on my face, running around under the bleachers, eating as many hot dogs as I wanted and sticky orange Faygo in a glass bottle, the crack of the ball on a wooden bat, my dad's white uniform stained with clay brown dirt from sliding into home.
I remember summer afternoons, my grandpa carrying a small radio in the front pocket of his button down shirts with Ernie Harwell's soothing voice calling out the Detroit Tigers hits and misses. To me, baseball has become synonymous with some of the best memories I can muster, and I'm sure it's the same for thousands of kids – young and old alike – across America.
I'm so happy to have found these photos! It combines two of my loves, yoga and adorable animals! Yes, these images are photoshopped, but I don't care! One day, I hope to be as skilled as young lola:
More photos at Dogster (via Boing Boing)
This is one of the best and truly viral videos I’ve seen in a while. Sent to me by the former DIFF Ninja.
It’s from a group that did a study showing that behavior can be changed with fun.
In this case it worked. They made walking stairs (one of the least fun things in the world) fun.
See how they did it.
Thanks DIFF Ninja!
Very interesting short movie I wanted to share. I won't spoil it (takes about 18 mins to watch), but here is a short synopsis from the film's site:
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.
In the end, the wayward plastic bag wafts its way to the ocean, into the tides, and out into the Pacific Ocean trash vortex — a promised nirvana where it will settle among its own kind and gradually let the memories of its maker slip away.
Wow. This is a cool thing to happen on Earth Day.
So anyway, I got an email from my buddies Charlie and Tarun over at MS&L Digital and they asked me if I had some questions for home safety expert John Drengenberg, the Consumer Safety Director at Underwriter Laboratories (UL).
I said yes. I sent them the questions.
The questions were answered live in a webinar and they sent me this video.
Wow. This is cool. Happy Earth Day!
If there's one thing to know about people from Detroit it's the love we have for our community. We are intensely proud of the products from our fair city – great music, great cars and a really great comic book scene.
I know, I know. Detroit isn't the first place you think of when it comes to comic books. But Detroit has long been home to many successful comic writer/artists including Geoff Johns who writes for DC and Guy Davis who draws for Marvel. There are also several other self-published comic artists who are lauded as tops in the industry like Katie Cook, artist at Starwars.com, and Dave Petersen, the award winning artist and creator of the highly lauded Mouse Guard series.
As for comic cons, most people immediately think San Franscico or New York or Chicago. But really, aren't those old hat by now? Big cities, big names, big deal! Detroit has been a great comic community and has yet remained untarnished by the greedy hands and dirty fingers of the money-grubbing Hollywood types. The Motor City Comic Con is one of the best and largest Midwest comic conventions and has been going strong for more than 20 years.
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Every year Quicken Loans sponsors a table at the annual Bow Wow Brunch- a charity event that benefits the Michigan Humane Society. This weekend was their 21st annual brunch - held at the Ritz Carleton in Dearborn – and I was honored to represent the company, along with several others, for a cause that is close to my heart. Several local personalities were on hand to lend their fund-raising celebrity to the function, while silent and live auctions also raised money for the nonprofit. Especially enticing for the pet lovers in attendance were the sweet kittens and pups that graced the foyer, auditioning for new homes.
The auctions featured items donated by local businesses, craftspeople, and artists, as well as some specialty experiences, such a private breakfast with the giraffes in the Detroit Zoo, and also a thrilling ride with GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz aboard his private J-39 Soviet jet.
I have a dog from MHS, who was surrendered to the Huron Valley branch at the age of 3 weeks, barely responsive and suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and urine burns on his paws from unclean conditions. A foster care provider working with the shelter nursed him back to health with lots of care and attention from her family. When I took him home at 9 weeks, he was happy and healthy and loving, and instantly fit right in with my other pets. He's been a loved and valued member of my household ever since. Because of him - and because every animal in my home was once in the care of a Humane Society - I feel indebted to MHS. (See comment in epilogue for correction! MHS is NOT affiliated with HVHS.) I was very happy to be able to attend and contribute, and was very pleased with what I heard during presentations at the brunch.
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