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Goose Island: 312 Urban Wheat Bells: Oberon, Hopslam (not my favorite but is popular), Best Brown New Holland: Zoomer (wheat), the Poet (oatmeal stout), I think you should try and figure out a way of getting and selling New Belgium beers...they don't yet have a distribution deal in the state of Ohio...but they are into Indiana now. It's only a matter of time.

Detroit has a huge footprint with a very small population. That means that public services have to operate at a capacity for 2+ million people while only having a tax base of 800,000 or so. Plus, much of that tax base is at a smaller income level than when it was at 2 million. I'm not sure any city in this country faces the challenges of Detroit.

Sunoco station robbed This Sunoco has really changed in the last couple years. It used to operate a service garage...and now just has random people using the service bays to either sell crappy merchandise or wash cars. They've been robbed quite a bit (i remember not long ago there was an armed robbery). I know Montgomery is a convenient escape route...but, damn...

Judge to decide Gamble house fate By Cliff Radel • [email protected] • February 26, 2010 A lawsuit seeking the demolition of the historic James N. Gamble house in Westwood will be heard 10 a.m. today by Common Pleas Judge Norbert Nadel. :-o they really want this building down as quickly as possible and without any protests.

I agree with your assessment. I might go check this out to help CAC bringing in other shows that are similar, but i'm not hugely impressed with Shepard Fairey. I noticed the Giant from picture 19, but didn't see the wall murals the other day when i was driving by. I must have missed them. I'll be sure to look on my way out tonight. I saw the one next to Arnold's the other morning but didn't connect it right away to Fairy's work.

^^I love Postal Service and Such Great Heights is a favorite song...or was...until UPS began using it for every ad. Now? not so much.

Bob Seger Greatest Hits 1 & 2 Billy Joel Greatest Hits Aerosmith Greatest Hits (not a fan of theirs...but, this greatest hits album came out early enough that it didn't suck as bad) Wave of Mutilation: Best of the Pixies Other album: Metric--Fantasies Loveage -- music to make love to your old lady by Gorillaz -- Demon Days Gnarls Barkley -- St. Elsewhere Lupe Fiasco -- Food and Liquor Grandmaster Flash --The Message

wow...White River Salvage looks like it's got quite the selection. Pretty expensive stuff, but it looks like they're really good at what they do. I'd love to restore my craftsman, it'll take many years to reverse some of the changes that have occurred. Some of them are irreparable.

Oh sure, i am just commenting on the fact that i associate more with the movies and tv shows from when i was younger than the ones from the 90s...where as my music tastes didn't develop until hard rock/grunge came out. I need to get the 800XL set up...i'm not even sure that the floppies still work.

Thank you for putting that thought more tactfully than I was going to.... i revised it just before posting. I thought...huh...that's rather crude...maybe there's a better way.

Maybe it's something as horribly non-controversial as that. If i'm making the decision i'm going to make darn sure that the person i pick didn't accomplish their best work elsewhere. I mean, what message does it send to say "sure, grow up here, but you don't get anything done here." Maybe they should leave it alone until John Glenn or Neil Armstrong are eligible?

XY, i like it...like CBC we always had computers in the house, from the Atari 800XL (still got one) to the Apple II, and on up through the 386-486-pentium-etc...we used Telnet to access libraries and other early web stuff... I don't necessarily consider myself to be a 90s kid, though. I graduated HS in '97 but i associate with a lot more of the cultural stuff from the 80s. Not the music, so much...but the cartoons (Transformers, He-Man, etc) and movies (ghostbusters, star wars, etc). At the same time, i didn't have much in the way of vinyl. I remember tapes and CDs. my first CD was GnR Lies and then to Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Public Enemy). I guess that's what XY is all about.

why wouldn't William Howard Taft be nominated? I mean, the only man to serve as both President and Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. His dream job was to be on the SCOTUS and he really got screwed by his friend Teddy.

Paul Newman? Curtis LeMay. Leader of the Berlin Airlift?

looking at the auditor's site it looks like there are two parcels owned by that foundation. One is the gamble house (parcel ID 208-0057-0002-00 ) and the other is a smaller 2 bedroom building behind it (parcel ID 208-0057-0141-00) possibly a caretaker's house?

if this is the case then cities need to start setting up dating services to get these nomadic young people to hook up, fall in love and settle down for tax base.

who's mcmansion is in the rear? Carter Randolph? I was amazed at how much of a d-bag he comes across as in that article from the 21st.

Pleasant Hour?

I view living at home to be entirely situational...if someone is being responsible about it and using the time at home to save money for a house or doesn't really see the need to find somewhere else because they are able to be independent even while living with their parents then it's alright. If the person were living at home and their mother were cooking their meals and doing all their laundry and they were expected to be home at certain hours...well, yeah...that'd be a problem.

aren't they in the middle of the season? I don't know about those two taking up the boat...or either of them...at least not anytime soon. Neither one of them has more than a few years experience...looking at Phil's bio, he started when he was younger than them and was a captain at age 21. I don't see it in them.

God knows it took a lot out of him...he sure didn't look like he was 53. I suppose you can't smoke several packs a day...drink quite a bit...and work in an incredibly stressful field and have it not affect your life. I wonder who will captain the boat? Maybe Murray will come back? he retired, though...right?

Man, hearing about Capt. Phil Harris (from Deadliest Catch) dying bums me out...i mean, the guy didn't take care of himself (especially following his previous issues) but still...i thought he came across as a pretty decent guy.

This weather is annoying me at this point. All this snow in Cincy doesn't really bother me that much, everyone tells me "you're from Michigan, you should be used to it" but in Michigan we get enough of it to justify buying a snowblower. I've never had to shovel as much in my life as in the last three weeks. I think the city has done a decent job clearing it all. I have been laughing at all the people that clearly only have one car and it's a rear wheel drive (Sorry, Ram)...it only happens a few times a year...but this isn't the weather to have one.

I believe Detroit's Woodward line will also bring the commuters from the Ann Arbor line to downtown. Maybe the People Mover will actually be used as it was intended.

I think that travel is a big part of that. One of the things that allowed people to move all across the country was the ease of traveling back home. Family is still a pretty big tie for people.