I’ve just received word that The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent release by my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, is currently the second most played record on WCBN. I know that I should be happy about this incredible achievement, but I’m finding it difficult to look beyond the fact that I don’t […]
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Sometimes WCBN gets things very right, and sometimes they get things very, very wrong
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged 50 Skidillion Watts, Calling All Girls, David Fair, Half Japanese, Jad Fair, Maryland, WCBN 16 Comments
The Porking of Michigan: We were promised high-tech jobs. Instead, we were given a pork processing plant.
A few years ago, I interviewed an author here by the name of Ted McClelland, a former Michigander who, as you might recall, had stirred up a little bit of a shit storm after referring to our home state as “Michissippi” in an article on Salon.com about our passage of so-called right-to-work legislation. “Michigan,” said […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged cheap labor, Clemens Food Group, Community Development Block Grant, Doug Clemens, food processing, gut snatcher, hogs, lame duck, meat packing, meat production, MEDC, Michigan Strategic Fund, Michissippi, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter, Ted McClelland 23 Comments