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Tattoos are reverse time machines: with time travel you can send a warning back to your younger self, with tattoos you send a mistake forward to your older self.

via Tattoos | Cracked.com.

BoingBoing has posted a story about “The Scene“, the predecessor to the “New Dance Show” – complete with videos!

For those who aren’t aware, there’s a third (?) generation of the Detroit-based dance show: “Dance Party” on WADL.  The airing times seem to move around, but it was on at 7pm weekdays when I last checked.  For me, 7pm is not the optimal time- it’s much more entrancing when you stumble upon it late at night before bed.

This guy is pressing his luck.  I wouldn’t fuck with the NFL in this economy.

I heard this on WRIF this afternoon – a parody of Disturbed’s “Get Down with the Sickness” with a Christmas theme.  I’m not a fan of the original (Richard Cheese’s version is good though!), but it made me laugh.

As some of you may know, Michigan’s Govenor Granholm recently approved tax incentives to lure movie production to Michigan.  In the last few months there’s been a few hollywood-related stories appearing in the news and local blogs.   This includes news of a Drew Barrymore-produced movie filming in Ypsi and the possibility that a major studio will buy Ford’s Wixom assembly plant to turn it into a soundstage.

Yesterday I got my own first-hand experience with this “new” industry.  I was driving home along Hines Drive yesterday, and at one point near the sledding hill in Westland, I saw WDIV’s news truck there next to some kind of small road-side stand in a parking lot.  I couldn’t get a good look at the stand, but it looked like it was selling either fireworks or propaganda posters.  This was odd, and it made me think back to a traffic report from the day earlier in which they mentioned an intersection being closed for filming.  I didn’t pay too much attention to that traffic report the first time, but on the second play-through it sounded like it was on Merriman, which is a major road in the western burbs.

Further down the road there were a bunch of vehicles parked with people milling about including a flat bed truck with equipment in it, which, given the previous day’s traffic report, I thought could be film equipment.  Among the vehicles was an old commercial truck (big and boxy), painted light blue with a huge hotdog on top.  The truck had writing that said “Weiner Wiz” (or “Weiner Whiz”), and spraypainted along the side in big black letters was “FAGGOT”.  At this point I was sure this related to film, since no one ever drives trucks with big hotdogs on them unless they’re the Weinermobile, which itself is a hotdog-shaped car.

After some light searching, I found this article about the filming from the 9/10/08 Westland Eagle.  It looks like it’s going to be called “Ms. January” and will be a road-trip movie filmed entirely in the state.  The description and stars associated make it look like it’s definitely a B-list movie, but any movie that includes trucks with giant hotdogs and homophobic slurs spraypainted on it can’t be that bad, can it?

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This year’s party will be on it’s historical proper date of July 3rd. Since most people will be working that day, we’ll probably have a late start.

Any beer suggestions? A half barrel was too much last year and a lot went to waste, so I’m thinking of a quarter barrel, but I don’t know how easy they are to obtain.

We tried buying a round of drinks at Canton’s “Cherry Martini” martini bar a few weeks back.  We failed, or really, they failed.   They apparently have an unwritten/hidden rule where if you want to sit down you have to buy a bottle of booze.  You have to make a reservation first, to boot.  This works out pretty well, because there appeared to be only 2 drink menus in the whole place – who needs that when your table has committed to a single type of drink (oh, I guess you COULD order many bottles of booze)?  I should mention we found out about the reservation rule after being told that we couldn’t sit where we sat  the first time because it was reserved, and were directed to another location.  Shortly after, we were told that was reserved too.  They do have a bar area, but that’s not conducive for conversation among six people.

I guess this is how Puff Diddly-Daddy and his entourage do it in the big apple, and since that’s how Canton rolls, it’s a perfect policy to employ.  Especially when it’s the only bar in the “downtown” area it resides in.

To the waitress who cried after my brothers-in-law stated that the policy was stupid (especially since there were no “reserved” signs posted): please don’t take it personally.  Plymouth has a nice martini bar you can work out that doesn’t have policies in place to piss off potential customers.

The irony is we’d have probably have been in and out after our single round before the special guests arrived.