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Detroit, 10:29 PM
Sat Nov 28
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05/07/09
Sure, the building is damn eminent.
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When the Ren Cen opened, I was still living on the west side of the state & came back to Detroit to visit my mom.
We took a trip down to see the shops and had late lunch at the Summit. That's what the top floor restaurant was called back then. As it slowly rotated we enjoyed watching the city go from daylight to dark as the sun set.
On that same visit, or near that same time frame, we went to Dearborn to the Fairlane Town Center. The shopping mall was like nothing I'd ever seen; my small west Michigan town didn't even have a shoe store.
In those days, you could take an elevated tram from the mall to the Hyatt Regency hotel. There was a top-floor rotating restaurant there, too.
Such optimistic times they were. It makes me sad to see just how bad things are now.
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"All around them the scars of war had scorched the earth. But out of the ashes a few brave men had built a giant glass tube and named it Renaissance. Protected by only a thick wall of concrete from the dangerous ghetto zombies outside, they set about to revitalize the city from within..."
70s architects crack me up.
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They should have installed boiling oil/tar cauldrons to keep that cesspool's postapocalyptic denizens from entering the building.
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If only the address were 350 Shortblock Lane.
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(is Coach Insignia the name of the restaurant, a purse store, or a special edition of an Opel sedan?)
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Coach Insignia's the name of the restaurant. Actually, the name is the insignia of a Coach. Like Prince, it has no spoken name.
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Sure it may be fall, but when your 90 floors above the city, the fact that it's burning doesn't even enter your mind.
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I should know, I'm an owner of a vehicle formerly owned by SolRacer, from back in his days of Miata individualism. Now, the Miata is a tough as an impact socket, and my buddy SolRacer knows not the meaning of smooth inputs. ;-) He does drive fast though, and my Miata continues to put up with abuse, like the happy little Mule it is, to this day.
Let's hope the Peugeot we're driving at Arse-freeze can handle our caning...
12/17/08
And for what it's worth, I'd have a hard time choosing between the Riv and the '56(?) Buick.
12/17/08
2 seats
stick
front mid engine / rear drive
quick, nippy
sexy lines
very cool
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1. The one where she THUDS to the floor, which made me laugh because I'm like that.
2. The one where he buys her a mini-trampoline and she rebounds up into his arms, which is not funny at all due to its ridiculous implausibility.
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my 1950's style complex comes complete with 0 insulative qualities and windows that seem to radiate air as cold as dick cheneys heart.
im tempted to fire up the wall mounted gas heater, but the knowledge that my manager simply spray paints them to "like new" at each turn of tenants has my toxicity sense tingling
12/17/08
Oh, and the Sky is far more attractive than the Solstice but both cars are quite nice IMHO.
12/17/08
...i think im going to move to the equator next
12/17/08
To hell with global warming. I say we should all have to leave our cars running overnight to warm the planet up some more. Anything less than 50 degrees F is just too damn cold.
12/17/08
funny how things work out...
i would be on board with your plan for worldwide warmupyness. but then we com back to the 109 summer... then 114 summer... then 123 summer...
i think ill stop bitching about my 3 weeks of "cold" weather
12/17/08
Sooo, Smalley, what's your sign?
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