bowlinger qua bowlinger

am i missing something, or are some of these republicans actually coming out in favor of torture?

also, who the hell are some of these people?

besides picking blueberries in dexter, there’s something else you can do there on saturday mornings. you can go on a sailboat! for free!

there’s totally a lake there. and the university of michigan sailing club will take you out on that lake on a boat propelled by the wind!

here’s what you do: wake up relatively early on a saturday morning, take some aspirin for your hangover, drink some coffee, drive down the gravel road leading to the boat house(the gravel road is named strawberry lake road, although you will be going to baseline lake), get out of your car, find the guy with the list, and have him put your name on the list.

if you’re lucky, there will be a guy who reminds you of a kind marine drill sergeant on the shore teaching a bunch of you how to put the sails up on the boat and what all the different ropes and sails and parts are named. he will tell funny jokes and question why ropes are named sheets. you will break into teams of people and practice putting up and taking down the jib and the main sail.

then you’ll be taken out on a little two person boat and you’ll be taught to sail. after you’ve had a few lessons and paid your dues, you can take sailboats out whenever you like, it seems. (it’s probably not whenever, but it sure sounds like it’s pretty much whenever)

hot damn. ann arbor ain’t so bad.

here is what you can do in july in dexter: pick blueberries.

first, finding this blueberry farm is an adventure in itself, involving dirt washboard roads and a grassy parking lot. after you park your car in the grassy parking lot, you will get of your car and be greeted by a porta-john. then, you will see a big tree with two plastic chairs under it. next, over by a shed, you will find a collection of ropes and belts, a scale, buckets, a tin can with a plastic lid on it that says, “make checks payable to dexter blueberry farm”, a price list ($1.35 per pound… but the math is done out for you in increments of pounds), and a sign that says “picking is slow today, we expect there to be more by 7/19. i really wish i had my camera with me, it was totally small-town-middle-of-nowhere style. you know… like on halloween when your neighbor leaves out the bowl of candy and the ‘take ONE’ note. it is grand.

i grabbed a bucket and took off towards the rows of bushes.

there were about 10 rows, i guess and these things are FULL of blueberries. i’m telling you… amazing amounts of blueberries. don’t believe me? check out this photo: blueberry bush

ok, now imagine all those bunches of blueberries are still green, and each bush has maybe 5-10 ripe berries on it. i noticed that there was a trend where the bushes under the high voltage wires had more ripe berries on them than the other bushes did. i have two theories about this:

1. these bushes were at the back of the rows and further away from the parking lot, thus being less picked-over.
2. these bushes are freaks of nature due to the magnetic field created by the high voltage.

after i had filled my bucket about 1/4 of the way full, i headed back to the shed to go weigh my bounty. just shy of two pounds! i owed $2.70 the price list helpfully spelled out for me.

i pulled three bucks out of my pocket, dropped it in the can to join the $8-odd bucks already in there, and grabbed a quarter in change.

now i have to figure out what the fuck to do with all these blueberries.

that one on the far right, it’s a monster. it’s nearly as wide around as a quarter. oh, and they’re really delicious.

there’s a war between Polish Village Cafe(PVC) and Polonia Restaurant in Hamtramck.

I’m at Polonia every saturday. Waitresses are always very nice and perfect in every detail. But in PVC- dirty restaurant waitresses are unpleasant. Their food is from cans. Mashed potatoes are instant.

[I] can only say good things about Polish Village. The food is good, and authentic and fresh. Polonia (next door) is no comparision. Polonia makes the kielbasa in the garage which is next to an alley where ro-dents live, which leaves much to wonder about the quality and safety.

where is this war being fought, you ask?

why, citysearch reviews, of course.

Polish Village Cafe reviews

Polonia Restaurant reviews

hovering over the toilet, that is.

did you know that the average toilet seat is cleaner than your desk?

toilet seats are not the dirtiest things in the bathroom - abc news, 2020

i’m guessing that all of the relative clean-ness all goes out the window when those of us with bad aim hover over the seat.

i’m tired of going into the bathroom at the airport and looking into seven stalls before i find one that hasn’t been a victim of bad aim.

let’s start a revolution. sit down. pass it on.