[This is absolutely, 100% true. Yesterday’s performance wasn’t intended to demonstrate competence, but to rally the base for the battle ahead. This administration will not be easy to remove from power… Follow the Alt State Department.]
Tag Archives: strategy
Playing chess on Water Street… Ypsi Food Co-op takes Family Dollar in three moves
So, yesterday, as Arlo and I were chasing “Sammy the Turkey” around Feral Farm, it kind of came to me in a flash what we should be working toward on Water Street. It would take some strategizing on our part to make it work, but I think there’s a chance that, if we play all […]
Posted in Ideas, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Ypsilanti Also tagged cohousing, commons, Core Resources, crazy ideas that just might work, economic development, Family Dollar, farmers market, Feral Farm, gentrification, Mark's big ideas, parasites, Trader Joe's, Turkey, urban planning, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street Redevelopment Project, Ypsi Food Co-op 54 Comments
The down side of shopping cart races
A few days ago, I posted something here on the site about the clandestine shopping cart race that takes place in Ann Arbor every August, at the end of Punk Week. Well, after posting the story, I began hearing from people in Ann Arbor who wanted me to know why they were against the races. […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life Also tagged Bill Grundy, cardboard carcass, dirty rotter, disturbing the peace, flyers, kids today, littering, posts where Mark comes across as an uncool douche, preachy bullshit, Punk Week, punks, Sex Pistols, Shopping, shopping carts made to look like sharks, stickers, taggers, the man 18 Comments