Monday, July 12, 2010

weblog

A real estate mogul who is obsessed with Beat Generation writers. - Ann Arbor Observer
He's decided to largely ditch his real estate business and open an online bookstore that specializes in 1950's era Beatnik stuff.
Speaking ill of the dead - Detroit Free Press (slide show)
Ex-Redwing Bob Probert's funeral was just as garish and tacky as his life was.
The Last Good Country - Detroit Metro-Times
Ernest Hemingway's time in nothern Michigan as a young man. (book review)hly-paid and tenured faculty for on-line classes?
The End of Free- The Atlantic
Free internet stuff that is. See, vulture capitalists just wanna get paid. Fuck 'em.
Interesting read, but the author's conclusions are kinda of a stretch. Argued past the evidence.