"If you can hear, you should probably pick up White Stripes' "Elephant" album, and listen to the whole thing." Read more

Having grown up in Charleston, WV, Burgundy always reminded me of Tom McGee. Very similar look and an even more similar off screen persona. He was pulled over 3 times for DUI and was summarily dismissed from several different local news outlets as a result.

So many of my childhood dinners took place with these two on the TV.

Be like the squirrel, girl. Be like the squirrel. Read more

Being from Canada I grew up on Mort Crim and Carmen Harlan. In the early days of cable the Canadian cable companies used to steal US TV signals from their perch in Windsor across the river from Detroit and broadcast them coast to coast in Canada. They were a lot more exciting than our local stations and this went on… Read more

There, I fixed it.

Holy fuck, is that wayne knight as the fat indian? Read more

Mort was pretty good, but I was a Bill Bonds fan from day one. To me, he IS the news. Hell, he was even in one of the original Planet of the Apes movies.

If that squirrel can take care of himself with a harsh winter coming on, so can I... Read more

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My inspiration is legendary Italian anchor Germano Mosconi. If only my Italian were better.

Wow! So much Detroit in one clip! Thanks for digging up the clip, Arron "Axel" Foley. Have to go to Busch's now and get a bottle of Faygo Redpop. Thank you, Jamie Farr, for that great ad. Mort is still around; he's the voice of Majik Windows, and of course founder of Mort Crim Communications on 10 Mile in… Read more

Wow. How's that for a racist ad... Read more

Good topic to localize, Aaron. No quibbles with the array of judgment calls at the margins, which should be sniping-exempt by definition.

One footnote from recent history, though you focus on current rosters:

"Deb Price broke barriers in 1992 when she became the first-ever syndicated columnist to write from a gay… Read more

For all the doom and gloom and dire straights that (too many) people seem to enjoy speaking of for the city, Detroit is slowly (like a battleship trying to park in a swimming pool slow) coming back to life. I'm downtown and in the city every weekend for various reasons. There is a new vibrancy and energy fueled by… Read more

HATING BUZZFEED IS LIKE HATING THE 90s HERE'S 11 90s GIFS TO CLEANSE YOUR SOUL

Great work, Democrats. You managed to deep six what was once America's greatest city and the heart of our motor industry. Now "our" cars are built in Mexico and Canada and Detroit is one big welfare case. Bravo, can't wait to see what you have planned for the REST of the nation. Read more

Someone get the popcorn, these comments are going to be good. Read more

If they sell the art in the DIA I'm gonna fucking blow. Read more

Bomb squads were called to the scene of the courthouse prior to Rhodes' ruling as a preventative measure Read more