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Peronabudget cutsBarack ObamaarchitectureGreat Backyard Bird CountBig Sauble Point LighthouseLudington Visiting Writerscapitalismwall hangingterrariumsSummerWest Michigan Birding FestivalwatershedresponsibilityfloodingsaunaUniversity of MichiganChampions of BreakfastAvett BrothersAndrea KowchHistoric LandmarkshikesThe Daily Beastit is good to rememberbeachPatti Smithpublic landsAIAenvironmentwinterThe Whalesong Projectsomebody send me some moneybeautiful weatherMLUIGrand Traverse Lighthouseto-do listsex traffickingCaroline Bartlett CraneDetroit ShockInk for LifePreservation NationJan FlechsigMichigan Equality. LGBTChubby MaryNautical YarnSarah Pagels-MannSt. Clair ShoresPetCoStraw bale constructionOlympicspaw pawsFlintJohn BrownTraverse CitystresspoliticsMichigan mapMLAblogEMUdam breakknittingIranWNBABitch MagazineSheltering PineskilldeerJustin WilsonMichigan in PicturesStewardmonth of mayRothburyRiver Raisin BattlefieldsnowfictionDr. TedCherry FestivalICFIStacy Niedzwieckito the under-explored, the overlooked and the tragically unsunghttp://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)Blogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7072387337799879873Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:32:00 +00002010-12-07T21:32:39.089-05:00DUCFDetroitHit up the Detroit Urban Craft Fair this weekend. Awesome, as usual! I also hit up Noel Night on Saturday and Whip Stitch at the Corner Brewery the following night. At the Noel Night College for Creative Studies craft fair, I saw this CCS student walking around with this mug. So kick ass! Lana, my craft fair companion, stopped her and asked her where she got it. Turns out, she made it! http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/12/craft-fairs-music-and-detroit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7139998337357714511Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:17:00 +00002010-11-16T20:17:27.579-05:00ISSEICFISEP The International Students for Social Equality will be holding a meeting this Thursday, November 18th at 7 p.m. in room 304 of the EMU Student Center. The topic discussed will be the 2010 elections and the failure of the Democratic Party.   "The 2010 elections have been quickly followed by a shift by the entire political establishment to the right. After their sweeping victory, the http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/2010-elections-lessons-of-democratic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-1867404844081564474Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:21:00 +00002010-11-12T15:21:20.222-05:00Native AmericansHistoric PreservationLast Thursday, over 200 people participated in a 4.6 mile walk from CMU to the Nibokaan Ancestral Cemetery to return the remains of 144 native people. The remains were returned through NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). As a master's candidate in a historic preservation program, I've had only the tiniest bit of exposure to NAGPRA but I am intrigued to see it at work http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-owns-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-4838428094726734157Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:22:00 +00002010-11-12T13:22:08.763-05:00WSWSDetroit Symphony OrchestraISSEICFI<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/detroit-symphony-strike-defense-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-1156718066933770976Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:12:00 +00002010-11-03T17:12:59.296-04:00architectureAfter linking my previous post on the architecture of the imagination to Facebook, the humble and scholarly Kurt Sanchez (ahem...Anschuetz) commented that he found the rest of the note, with further descriptions of the submarine cave dwelling, on the ground in our neighborhood. Since he has subsequently posted scans of those pages on Facebook, I snagged them to share with y'all. Yay Kurt! http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/architecture-of-imagination-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-6015981804964102352Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:33:00 +00002010-11-02T22:35:52.379-04:00WSWSISSEThe International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) will be holding a joint meeting between the groups at EMU, UM, and WCC this Thursday, November 4 in Room 304 of the EMU Student Center from 7-9pm. Meeting Agenda:1. Political Report and discussion2. Review of Chapters one and two of Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte3. Review of practical work If you aren't busy and are so inclinedhttp://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/isse-meeting-this-thursday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-1709662456880359734Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:58:00 +00002010-11-01T12:58:55.481-04:00I'm a day late in wishing you a Happy Halloween. Hope it was fun! A group of rather grim Ypsi children gather for a photo with their Jack-O-laterns. My fave is the one on the far left with the corncob pipe. From the Ypsilanti Historical Society's Digital Photo Archive, available here. http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/11/spooky-scary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-2934103300206906522Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:25:00 +00002010-10-29T09:25:43.154-04:00architectureWhile taking my evening constitutional the other night, I found the this note on the ground. It is mud-smeared and looks like a page torn from a Junior High-era journal, complete with a poem about unrequited love and containing the eyes of an imaginary audience. As you can see, the note also lays out the rudimentary plans for a house built into a "rock formation out at sea." Since I found it, http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/architecture-of-imagination.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-4266711239780385163Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:46:00 +00002010-10-27T09:19:16.186-04:00Historic PreservationSaginawSo I've a new preservation job in Saginaw. I won't elaborate much (to protect my identity!) but suffice it to say I get to mix advocacy, capacity building, architectural history, and education in to my duties. On top of all that I go inside cool old buildings, I get to meet the folks that are working to change their community, and I spend every moment of my day immersed in preservation, thinking http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/gone-to-look-for-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7144382736350693719Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:00:00 +00002010-10-24T22:24:07.672-04:00http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/sam-roberts-detroit-67.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-9119313462742211062Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:19:00 +00002010-10-24T20:19:04.334-04:00The Henry FordHistoric PreservationEMUOn Saturday, my Preservation Eastern cronies and I got a look at the storage facilities of The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which also houses the significant corporate archives of the Ford Motor Company. While I know our tour barely scratched the surface, we still got to see some pretty cool stuff. Thanks to Tyler Wolfe for providing the photos. A drawer-full of treasures http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/behind-scenes-at-americas-greatest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-4783563364315077783Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:24:00 +00002010-10-24T18:54:54.796-04:00rural explorationHistoric PreservationdesignarchitectureUrban explorationOne of the coolest things about exploring and working in old, crumbling houses is discovering some of the wack-a-doo color combos, textures and materials used to decorate and furnish the interiors of the past. It is an exercise of empathy and imagination to attempt to get 'behind' some of the ideas that inform the aesthetics of a previous era. So often one enters one of these houses to find http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/old-fashioned-farm-fashions-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-8313684856680100065Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:18:00 +00002010-10-22T11:23:08.015-04:00Historic PreservationSaginawarchitectureI took a quick walk down Jefferson in Saginaw on Tuesday afternoon and took in some of the beauties of the city's cultural landscape. Also check out this online walking tour of the Historic South Jefferson area Castle Museum Lovely, crumbling Prairie Style Alden B. Down house (tacked on to the side of the above church) This one's for sale folks! I want to live here and fix it up.http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/saginaws-built-environment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-2924739368153139857Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:46:00 +00002010-10-12T20:52:47.208-04:00WSWSISSEICFISEPThe International Students for Social Equality, the student arm of the Socialist Equality Party, will be holding a public meeting this Thursday at 7:00 pm at Eastern Michigan University, 900 Oakwood St Student Center room 301 in Ypsilanti, MI. Click here for a Map. The itinerary of this week's meeting is an address and discussion of the SEP's recently published program "The Breakdown of http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/isse-public-meeting-at-emu-on-tuhursday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-5161613103147286721Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:10:00 +00002010-10-11T09:10:00.322-04:00As anyone who has ever perused this blog might know, sometimes I do not write about Michigan. Sometimes I am shamelessly self and/or family promoting, or I find something cool I want to share, or I just want to pontificate. Well this post is one of the former. Specifically, this is in relation to my cousin Michael's band Hotbreath Tea. The songs are delicate, introspective and pretty as poetry http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/like-dragon-water-cleans-itself.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7078543517511434384Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:06:00 +00002010-10-10T21:07:05.452-04:00food and drinkFor dinner tonight I modified a lentil soup recipe from the Joy of Cooking cookbook by adding and subtracting a few ingredients. The soup is light and summery but still hearty enough for a meal. It embodies all the warm, earthy scents of second summer and is, for some reason, most tasty after a walk through your neighborhood. Here's what I did: In a big pot I warmed a big splash of olive oil. http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/soup-for-second-summer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-2473606457121637321Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:06:00 +00002010-10-06T11:14:06.980-04:00randomSPACEMichigan photographyMary OliverI've heard photography referred to as 'painting with light' but I think it can also be an act of focused attention that brings both the photographer and the viewer of the photograph in to a kind of visual and emotional synthesis across space and time.Witness the above photo of Lake of the Clouds from the randomSPACE photography blog which not only paints with light and pulls one in to the place http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/light-and-invitation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-2750049131818455691Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:56:00 +00002010-10-07T10:16:20.976-04:00WSWSDetroit Symphony OrchestraICFIThe larger social significance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike does not, at first blush, appear to be more than a hiccup in the storm of conflict that has engrossed the state in the last two years. In fact it seems indicative of larger social trends in a period of economic stagnation, one that most of us accept as necessary but one that does not seem as pressing as cuts to education, sayhttp://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/detroit-symphony-orchestra-strike.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-1915818351291762001Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:51:00 +00002010-10-03T21:51:00.243-04:00A little treat to wrap up the weekend: MC5 performing at Wayne State in the early 70s. See anyone you know in the crowd?http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/10/kick-out-jams.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-2124026716649152697Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:23:00 +00002010-08-24T09:23:35.427-04:00Archives of MichiganSeeking MichiganPeter WolfeIf you've never visited the Archives of Michigan's Seeking Michigan website, today might be the perfect day to start. Every month the Archives features an image from their vast collection and uses it to tell a story. This month's image is of Peter Wolfe, a Michigander who hiked the North Country Trail over six years in the 70s. You can read more about Peter and check out the other stories here. http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/08/peter-wolfe-and-seeking-michigan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7116027840078040683Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:36:00 +00002010-08-16T10:36:08.196-04:00Historic PreservationLighthousesCheck out this beautiful slide show and article on the preservation of the St. Helena Island Lighthouse in the New York Times. Best quote: “People need to know where their place is, and lighthouses acknowledge a sense of place that resonates in a real primal way.”http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/08/sense-of-place.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-1544204344925156811Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:47:00 +00002010-08-10T16:47:57.978-04:00Cultural landscapesarchitectureA landing pad for extraterrestials? A secret military training facility? What exactly is that huge white triangle in the Hiawatha Wilderness? Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG offers an explanation and an exploration of the mysterious landscape feature: Michigan Deep Woods Triangle Screen capture from Google Maps. http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/08/mysterious-triangle-in-up-wilderness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7323579195371598381Sat, 01 May 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-04-30T23:30:40.670-04:00anarchyMay DayVoltairine de CleyreIn celebration of May Day, I give you an excerpt from The Eleventh of November, 1887 by Voltairine de Cleyre, a prominant early 20th century freethought proponant and anarchist from Leslie, MI. She wrote it as a memorial oration for the anniversary of the Haymarket hangings in Chicago in November 1887. May Day, or International Workers Day, is held (roughly) on the anniversary of the Haymarket 'http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-day-essay-from-michigan-anarchist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-7647807824502855260Sat, 01 May 2010 02:36:00 +00002010-04-30T22:36:37.317-04:00Ypsi Projectoral historyErica HamptonLegacy Land Conservancy I've been working on an oral history project with the Legacy Land Conservancy. The project involves recording interviews with people who have donated or placed protective easements on their land with the Conservancy. Two weeks ago I met Harold Baker, an 87 year old retired Detroit teacher originally from Toledo. He never married and spent all of his free time in the woods near his home in http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/04/salt-of-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554983650381803650.post-4453452301834640912Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:42:00 +00002010-04-21T09:48:07.573-04:00Ypsi ProjectErica HamptonListen up party people, Erica Hampton, the Ypsi photographer who took my pic last year for her brainchild The Ypsi Project NEEDS YOUR HELP!! She's trying to raise $2,400 so she can create an exhibit. Give her a hand won't you? Head over to kickstarter to make a pledge now! Oh, and there are prizes involved...http://ithinkiloveyoumichigan.blogspot.com/2010/04/support-ypsi-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (weakyknee)0