In an effort to help revitalize the city, a Detroit nonprofit is offering free houses to writers who come to live and work there for a minimum of two years. Your Wonkette definitely wants to get in on a deal like this, so the entire writing staff is preparing to pick up and move. As a bunch of liberal 47-percenters, we really do feel entitled to free stuff, so we figure we'll just show up and say, OK, here we are, let's get to revitalizing. Might make for a half-decent reality show, too. Editrix will get her own place, Lisa and Kaili can have another, Gary and Alex can split a swinging bachelor house, and DDM and Yr. Dok Zoom can take the Curmudgeon Quarters. And then we'll all zip up and down the street on our
What the hell happened to the Comments section at HNTP? It looks like it's been replaced at the bottom of each article with dialogue from old Monty Python rejected scripts. You know, the ones that weren't funny. Has the Sssister Sssite been hacked again?
Update: Wait, no. It looks like it's actually Disqus that is whack right now.
Gosh, you're treating this like an economic problem to be solved, and not an existential disaster foretelling the apocalypse. Let's see you get any political support.
What the hell happened to the Comments section at HNTP? It looks like it's been replaced at the bottom of each article with dialogue from old Monty Python rejected scripts. You know, the ones that weren't funny. Has the Sssister Sssite been hacked again?
Update: Wait, no. It looks like it's actually Disqus that is whack right now.
You need to read the fine print: "Copper plumbing not included."
Comes 48 years too late for me.
Detroit used to be a really cool place and a great city -- back when there were actual jobs there.
What did they end up doing with the old Chrysler plant? Sorry if the question is too dumb -- it's been a looong looong time now.
Damn, I missed all of that.
We needs moar Vernor's! The only true ginger ale!
Only if they can somehow bring back Ernie Harwell and George Kell.
What, you're already back out? Where now?
I'm thinking there are a butt-load of English majors on teh Wonk.
Really, never change.
Evabody likes walleye.
You were on a roll until ICP.
Thanx, WC.
So now we know his full name was Edgar Nijinsky.
Well, Zerkon, for one.
Gosh, you're treating this like an economic problem to be solved, and not an existential disaster foretelling the apocalypse. Let's see you get any political support.