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313 days ago
On the day after we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, we get to say Yes We Can.
1050 days ago
Does anyone other than me remember that prior to the year 2006, I posted a list of prognistications? Well, even if only for my own purposes, it is time to review my accuracy, which ended up being 13 of 17 for a whopping 76% -- not bad IMO, check it out: 1. Detroit hosts Super Bowl XL on February 5, 2006. Let's not even count this one -- it was too easy, so I hereby declare that there are 17, not 18, real predictions. Maybe I thought that somehow the city would live up to its ghastly reputation and cause the Super Bowl to get moved to Miami. :) Quite the opposite happened -- everyone involved (well, except for Seattle fans who watched the referees blatantly mug their team) had a great time, including the national media, it appears the NFL was sufficienlty pleased that we'll be given strong consideration for another iteration of the big game in the next decade. 2. Seattle travels to Detroit for an unexpected Super Bowl run. Bull's eye! But I stopped short of predicting a ...
1140 days ago
I'll never forget the day of the Million Man March, 11 years ago today. I was in my 4th year of college at the University of Michigan and it was only on the day itself that I realized that my tendency toward letting my school work pile up was a poor excuse for missing part of history. Of course, I'd decided I couldn't go anyway because I found the "men only" nature of the event to be silly, potentially divisive, and disrespectful of my Nubian queens. At the very least we could have doubled the tally for a 2 million person march, right? I watched the television coverage with my fellow Afro-centrists at the Black Student Union. Here is what I remember: As we expected, the journalists claimed that at the start of the march, the actual number of marchers was far less than a million, more like 500,000. Of course, we knew this was a c-o-n-spiracy. :) There was a 12-year old (or younger) kid with a dashiki who spoke like he was 20 years older and ...
1141 days ago
... I shouldn't have left you.... Too many things going on this year -- biggest was a knot tied in the summer with the lovely Bus Chick, followed by establishing our joint helipad in the CD. All this in the midst of a career upgrade. Anyway, we now return to the normal unreliable blogging schedule. Today's good news was actually from last night -- somehow, the Tigers are in the World Series. I saw them play here in Seattle earlier in the season and they were good, but I certainly didn't predict this. In fact, this was almost a Good Michigan Sports Weekend, nearly the exact opposite of a Bad Michigan Sports Weekend. The improbability of the Tigers in the World Series, a Michigan victory over Penn State to stay unbeaten, and the Lions' long-awaited first victory of the season overshadowed a Friday loss by the Red Wings and of course an expected embarrassment of Michigan State at the hands of #1 ranked OSU (this last one just listed for completeness, not ...
1386 days ago
So much for that visitor's guide I promised. Less than a week ago I was winding up a successful mini-vacation back home for Super Bowl XL. Some of the exploits appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as the Black Helicopter moonlighted for a moment... Buschick and I took care of some business there as well -- namely meetings with officials at Detroit's Museum of African-American History and Transportation Riders United (TRU). More details later -- for now, I have posted some pictures of the trip.
