Our Blogs are better....
Brian Robb, our newly elected councilmember from the third ward, has a right to be miffed, even if only playfully so. Yet, he should know that things aren't worth mentioning unless they happen in Ann Arbor first-- Even if they don't! Check out his excellent blog at www. eastcross.com and see his latest post on another example of Ann Arbor condensention directed toward, well, everyone else.
I for one, find the blogosphere of Ypsi more spicy and interesting, despite being perhaps but a fifth in size when compared to the Ann Arbor area's number of blogs. The vast majority of Ann Arbor blogs are family oriented fluff; pages and pages of vacationing families and their pooches wearing colorful bandanas, in photos of what seemingly look like the same stretch of Florida beach-- (Of course the neckwear could be hazardous to Rover, if he were visiting Ypsi wearing the wrong color, in the wrong hood! )
Maybe I find our local blogoverse the more interesting because of Ypsi's various woe's-- No "Water Street" type problems being tossed about Ann Arbor dinner conversations, I'd bet. To be fair, there are excellent Blogs that call Ann Arbor home, and I browse a number of them quite regularly. Also, most of Ypsi's blogs are nothing more than pictures of the kids and Fido as well.
However, the big guns of Ypsi blogdom, such as markmaynard.com or ypsi~dixit, and others, match up well, if not better than anything being posted to our immediate west. The topics that fuel them are often meatier (I for one have read enough posts on AA's parking problems-- If Ypsi could only be so lucky..sigh!) and whoa! The public discourse often gets rather heated in the various comment sections of our local blog stars!
Anyway, what I most appreciate is the intelligent discussion, that is often laced with brightly lit comical insight-- Informative and fun, our blogs! They're better? Hell, they are the best!
I for one, find the blogosphere of Ypsi more spicy and interesting, despite being perhaps but a fifth in size when compared to the Ann Arbor area's number of blogs. The vast majority of Ann Arbor blogs are family oriented fluff; pages and pages of vacationing families and their pooches wearing colorful bandanas, in photos of what seemingly look like the same stretch of Florida beach-- (Of course the neckwear could be hazardous to Rover, if he were visiting Ypsi wearing the wrong color, in the wrong hood! )
Maybe I find our local blogoverse the more interesting because of Ypsi's various woe's-- No "Water Street" type problems being tossed about Ann Arbor dinner conversations, I'd bet. To be fair, there are excellent Blogs that call Ann Arbor home, and I browse a number of them quite regularly. Also, most of Ypsi's blogs are nothing more than pictures of the kids and Fido as well.
However, the big guns of Ypsi blogdom, such as markmaynard.com or ypsi~dixit, and others, match up well, if not better than anything being posted to our immediate west. The topics that fuel them are often meatier (I for one have read enough posts on AA's parking problems-- If Ypsi could only be so lucky..sigh!) and whoa! The public discourse often gets rather heated in the various comment sections of our local blog stars!
Anyway, what I most appreciate is the intelligent discussion, that is often laced with brightly lit comical insight-- Informative and fun, our blogs! They're better? Hell, they are the best!
posted by Rob at 1:55 PM
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Hey there! Thanks for leaving a camera recommendation on my blog... I actually have added you to the list of local Ypsi blogs, on the right-hand sidebar of downtownypsi.org [that I am the lead geek and founder of].
Please do stop by there as well, and participate! It's meant to be a forum for all who live, work and play in Ypsilanti, and we'd love to have more people involved.
Thanks again!
-b
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