Tag Archives: Color Run

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Scott Straley

By Mark | July 14, 2013

Feeling as though I needed to post an awesome Ypsi Immigration Interview to counterbalance last week’s depressing Exit Interview with my friend Melissa, I started going through my email archive, looking for letters from people who had written to me over the past year, telling me that they were thinking of moving to Ypsilanti, hoping […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged adoption, California, Christine Schultz, dollar store, EMU, Family Dollar, Fashion Institute of Technology, foster children, gay adoption, gay bars, gay marriage, gay rights, Growing Hope, Huron River, internet business, Melissa Dettloff, Morristown, New Jersey, Parkridge Community Center, perception of crime, Proposition 8, Rutherford Pool, San Bernardino, Scott Straley, seed bombing, squirrels, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street Redevelopment Project, web development, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti real estate | 16 Comments

Still a rip-off, the Color Run returns to Ypsi

By Mark | May 9, 2013

In preparation for this weekend’s big Color Run that will be wreaking havoc in Ypsi, I thought that I’d repost what I’d written about the event last year, just as the “charity” event was wrapping up. Let me start out by saying that I like that the Color Run took place in Ypsi this morning. […]

Posted in Detroit, Other, Rants, Ypsilanti | Also tagged charity, Color Me Rad, giving to charity, neon, raves, running, scams, techno | 39 Comments

The Color Run… Why would anyone pay $50 to have people throw shit in their faces as they jog?

By Mark | July 22, 2012

Let me start out by saying that I like that the Color Run took place in Ypsi this morning. Anything, in my opinion, that brings upwards of 15,000 people into the city, to spend their money, is a good thing, even if they do shut down a lot of streets, and leave tons of trash […]