When we were up in Lansing for thnxgiving I was kind of totally blown away by how many medical marijuana dispensaries there are. And, you know, their varieties of window-dressing.
A demolition contract is close to being signed, according to officials with the Ingham County Land Bank, which bought the property for $400,000 in September.
But before it goes, the dilapidated motel - once a haven for prostitutes and drug addicts - will experience a brief rebirth as an urban art hot spot and then as a different kind of hot spot for fire department training.
About 30 graffiti artists from the area and as far away as Chicago and New York have been invited to use a symbol of urban rot as a canvas to showcase urban rebirth.
The artists will be doing their thing at their own expense July 30-31 and on Aug. 1 at the former motel on South Washington Avenue…
A formal public viewing will be set up after Aug. 1, and other local artists will be allowed to set up their own works on the property around the building.
Some time after that, Lansing Fire Department and possibly firefighters from the region get to take over.
Rescue workers will likely practice breaking through doors and walls to get to a fire.
— ‘Creative destruction’ in store for Lansing’s Deluxe Inn site
Hey city of Lansing - THANKS FOR THANKING ME FOR ORDERING THAT PARKING TICKET YOU GAVE ME THIS MORNING. You jerks.
Emotional ties to Michigan bring entrepreneurs home
The reasons many return to Michigan run the gamut. Some are lured by the desire to be near family and friends. Some see an economic landscape ripe for entrepreneurial opportunities, and others are heeding a call to invest in their native state and help bring Michigan out of its lingering slump.
Ryan & I went home to Lansing this last weekend and both got crazy, crazy homesick. It really didn’t hurt that the weather was unbelievably perfect and things were looking up from last time. I would really love for it to be realistic to go home but I am not sure what I would even do there. Maybe I could figure something out.
Ohio just doesn’t do spring like mid-Michigan and Cleveland just doesn’t do anything like Lansing. Except, you know, employ me.
“A Choice of Catastrophes” by Syscrusher
Lansing’s incontrovertible kings of synthesis, Syscrusher, burn out brightly with this first and last offering - A Choice of Catastrophes. A concept rock opera inspired by the Isaac Asimov novel of the same name, this epic pop/prog/metal masterpiece features many layers of dueling synthesizers, as well as guest performances by Michigan indie luminaries Chris Bathgate, Matt Milia and Zach Nichols of Frontier Ruckus, Will Yates of Zoos of Berlin, Ian Graham of Cheap Girls, Alfonso Civile of Know Lyfe, and more!
Ryan finally put up this album in a format besides WAV. Its pretty neat.
1975, Livernois Ave, Detroit .
from the comments:
I believe this car was intentionally set on fire.
Judging from the license plate number, this car was from out of town. Lansing (LC), I would guess.
“Hinkley Had a Vision” by The Crucifucks [via]
a not very interesting story about the crucifucks - doc dart (singer) still lives by my hometown pretty close to where one of my ex boyfriends from high school lived and i basically had to drive by his house everytime i went to see my boyfriend. He (the ex) had some bizarre story about going over to his house and being introduced to his pet rabbit.
Doc continues to be a mainstay of alternative culture in Lansing, Michigan, regularly showing up in local papers. Doc for a long time ran a baseball card store in a small collection of shops on Michigan Avenue near Sparrow Hospital. Currently residing in Okemos, Michigan, he created a stir with alleged anti-American sentiment following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Signs attached to the front of his home read, in part, “U.S. Troops terrorize as cowards from the skies. They should be in body bags”.
oh and you would not believe how stressed out people were about this! Okemos takes that shit serously!
anyway, this is one of my favorite crucifucks songs.
considering going home in april for this, at ryan’s suggestion. Idk I feel like I am sucked into being 20 again whenever I am in lansing.
Also there is tons of stuff happening in grand rapids over the next several months that I wish I could go to. It kind of sucks that going to grand rapids/chicago/lake michigan in general has become less of a reasonable thing to do for just one night.
I could multi-task though and make it a date for friend panopticon tattoos, though.
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“Willing Suspension of Disbelief” by Abe Froman
I regret being too young to go see Abe Froman when they were active in town.
spotted while perusing city pulse in preparation for next weeks excursion back to lansing
i guess michigan was serious about medical marijuana. good for them!
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“A River Runs Through It” by the Matadors of Shame
So lets sit down with some cards and a tall glass of whiskey and shit-talk ‘til the morning comes and everybody’s sick of me
this band is so good, and makes me remember that there is a lot of shit i miss about East Lansing/Lansing when it is easier to be angry and dismissive about it.
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A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
