Detroit Diva

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from California, invited Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose son was killed in Iraq and has been protesting the war ever since, to the Shrub's address to the nation tonight.  So, Cindy arrives and is promptly arrested. Well, that's one way to ensure that the shrub doesn't have to answer any tough questions about the war. Let's hope that the media turns this into W's worst freaking pr nightmare. One can dream can't they.

I Heart Detroit

By now you all know that I love Detroit and that I don't like when it's bashed. I reeeaaaallly don't like it when it's portrayed badly by people that liveand/or work here. Like the advertising firm J. Walter Thompson.  Check out thePR1ME or Sarah's blog for links to the advertisements  J. Walter is using to recruit people to come work for them. Appalling!

A couple of things I'm loving right now - Harry Shearer's Le Show, which I'm downloading as a podcast but you can listen to it on various radio stations throughout the country, and diet coke black cherry vanilla. Yummy.

Welcome to the D!

The city is gearing up for the SuperBowl on Sunday.  The celebs have started to arrive - ok, it's only the Seattle Seahawks. They're staying at the Dearborn Hyatt if you are so inclined to go look at football players.  The big celebrities like Jay Z, Kid Rock, the Stones, and who knows who else, probably won't be flying in until the weekend which is when all the big parties start - including the Playboy party at a City Airport hangar.  Yawn. Am I the only one who thinks Hugh Hefner and the whole Playboy thing is so 30 years ago?  The media and the city are getting excited about all the hoopla and I love that Detroit gets a chance to strut it's stuff.  I'll be up in northern Michigan all weekend for my brother's wedding - which in a very northern Michigan thing will be held on center ice of our local hockey rink. They met at the ice rink, in case you were wondering.  But I'll be back in Detroit in time to watch the big game on my TV at home with the rest of the world.  Go Steelers!!!! (Jerome Bettis is a hometown fella and we always support our own, doncha know)

James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces is on Oprah today and admits that he made stuff up and lied in his "memoir".  After Oprah picked his book it sold 1.77 million copies.  I think he should give every single one of those 1.77 million people their money back.  What an asshole!

Meg Ryan is the latest celebrity to adopt a baby.  No first name yet but rumor has it the baby's last name will be Ryan-Pitt. No, not really.

Let's ask Charleton

This is an actual call, from a patron, that one of my fellow librarians answered the other day:

Patron: Can you tell me what the Red Sea is made of?

Librarian: Water.

Patron: No, it can’t be made of water because Moses parted the Red Sea, let all the people through, and then put it back. There is no way he could do that if it was made of water.

Librarian: It’s made of water.

Patron: Could you look in the Bible and see what it says the Red Sea is made of?

Librarian: Water.

Continue until Librarian goes crazy.

Another librarian said she should have told him it was made of jello. Yeah, I wonder if he would have bought that.

As if you need another reason to hate "Tricky" Dick Cheney - the Associated Press is reporting that Haliburton sent contaminated water to troops in Iraq. In a internal  memo, a Haliburton official said “The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of untreated water from the Euphrates River.”  I say - Let's give Haliburton another giant contract, what's a little contaminated food and water among friends and let's pay them whatever they overcharge us for.

It's the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks in the SuperBowl on February 5th here in Detroit Rock City.  The journalists have already started the Detroit bashing as in this article. Apparently they've stopped any originality they might have been using in journalism. Here's a thought - you don't like Detroit, don't come to Detroit. It's not like we're going to miss you.

I watched a really good documentary over the weekend called Paper Clips. It’s about a group of kids in Tennessee who are studying the Holocaust and decide to collect 1 paperclip for every person killed by the Nazis. The paperclip was invented by a Norwegian and during WWII, Norwegians wore paperclips as a way of protesting the Nazis forcing Jews to wear the Star of David.  Get a box of tissue and watch this film. As they say in the movie – you will never look at the paperclip the same way again.