[08:34] < @chiqy> matt, i am extremely disappointed in your blog of late.
I know — bad blogger bad blogger!!! As Linda so graciously pointed out it has been a whole week since an update, so let me get you up to speed…

Thanks to Justin for taking Phil, myself and Christa to game 1 of the [...]

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Our buddies Adam & Darius have started up a blog to tackle the issues nobody wants to talk about.
Nobody Talks About is a blog that points out subjects that �no one� seems to be talking about.
From music and entertainment to politics and media � many things get swept under the rug.
Since we don�t know why [...]

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Saturday was my birthday, and as the saying goes I’m another day older and deeper in debt. That didn’t stop me from taking 27 out and bringing 28 in with a bang Friday night…
The evening began with some pre-drinking over at the Brooklyn lofts by old Tiger Stadium. By 11:30 or so we finally made [...]

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The weekend is over and we’re both back in the US. The cottage was a fantabulous success for me, as was Brantford for Christa. Monty was happy to be back home after spending the weekend with Christa’s parents, and Bailey was just happy to see people back in the house again after hanging [...]

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Myself, Christa & Jacqui went ice skating at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit Saturday night, and it was another of those experiences that makes me feel like Detroit is not dead.
We decided to check it out later in the evening around 8:30pm thinking that it wouldn’t be busy and would arrive to have the rink [...]

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I went to my first Red Wings game last night at Joe Louis Arena, and it was a blast. Had a few beers & watched them cruise to a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators.
Between the 2nd and 3rd periods they tried to bring out a Toyota Tundra pickup for an advertising stunt. The [...]

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Went to the North American International Auto Show in downtown Detroit last night, and I’ve got to say I was completely underimpressed. We got there at about 7pm last night, and I was initially concerned we wouldn’t have enough time to completely explore the show. We ran the full circle around Cobo Hall in a [...]

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Detroit is in the midst of a revival, and while the wounds of years of neglect & rot will take some time to heal there truly are measurable strides that the downtown corridor is slowly returning to life.
Just today I discovered an article in the paper about the resurgence of a neighborhood of spectacularly concentrated [...]

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…and everything is gray and depressing.
And then I read this piece from the Metrotimes, and it all makes sense…
There is one overall theme in the article; the love-hate relationship most people have with the city.
Yet, there’s also something glorious about this city, something that you can’t find anywhere else in the world. This city’s people [...]

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Tuesday, Google announced that they will be opening a facility in Ann Arbor. The facility will deal primarily with Google’s revenue-making Adsense and Adwords. It is projected that Google’s move will hire about 1000 people directly and create about 1200 jobs indirectly.
Google’s reason for choosing Michigan?
Larry Page, U of M alum and Google co-founder, says [...]

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