This has been a week of versuses in my humor blog, so why not join in and compare things, only one pair of which has a clear logical connection? Run over there recently have been:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 29
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Debauchery versus Vaseline
- Statistics Saturday: What You Use Your Time Machine for as a Kid Versus as a Mature Person
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: House Paint versus Jigsaw Puzzles
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Cheese Nevada versus HDMI
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Why does every comic look funny these days? December 2023 - March 2024
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Hair (the musical) versus Geography
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 30
Getting back now to Ann Arbor in August here's some pictures from around town, the first couple when I was with my brother and his family, later ones when I was just kicking around town on my own.
Basement in Ashley's bar where ... well, we've never been there while it was being used. Don't know why the London Underground theme but it's fun to see. The floor looks like it's had a day, though.
Piled-up chairs and another trompe l'oeil promising lots of stairs to get back up to the surface.
The mock subway walls go all the way to having imitation posters, including these that are in forced-perspective going right to the TV it's hidden behind.
A look down from the Liberty Street parking garage, here pointing at the Dawn Treader Book Shop and whatever else is going on that area of town.
More adorable part of this warning sign in the parking deck: the reminder not to leave behind your I Pods or the warning about your GPS devices?
Looking at the Michigan and the State, the two sidewalk movie palaces the town has, even if the State's lost its first floor. The only thing comparable in Lansing is just the floor of the theater, now the roof of a law office or something, looking down on a parking lot.
Can you see the record shop that's been here for a half-century-plus, under at least two different names? No, because it got gentrified out of downtown, like they're doing to the rest of downtown. But there used to be Liberty Records/Encore Records on this block.
Once more I wasn't there at the right time to see the movie showing, although I'm not sure how much I really want to see the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I've heard the costumes were pretty good. Never seen it myself. They also would be showing Twister a couple days after this.
Wall murals showing pictures of downtown, for people in downtown.
And here's the State Theatre with a marquee that just promises there'll be movies to see, if you like.
So you see what I see here on State Street? Yeah, they repaved it so there's no curb, no change in height between sidewalk and street, making it easier to use the street for pedestrian purposes.
Do you know how angry the drivers of the Ann Arbor community who never go downtown are at this block of downtown being made more of a pedestrian and bike-friendly zone? They were so livid once someone told them about it.
Trivia: In calculating the age of the world the Venerable Bede estimated that God began forming the sky, earth, and water on the 18th of March, 3952 BCE. Source: The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock with the Heavens --- And What Happened to the Missing Ten Days, David Ewing Duncan.
Currently Reading: Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie, Gary Weiss. Another gift from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger. She had to order it because for some reason the local Lansing-area bookstore didn't carry a biography of a guy known for the commercials for his New York City-area discount electronics chain store scam of the 1970s and 80s. (That would make this the year 5975.)
