Simon Bar Sinister

There have been a few bills introduced over the last 2 years to rescind or modify the ban, but things seem to be heating up as of late. What kind of impact have you seen in the places you frequent? Over the time the ban's been in effect, I've mostly only gone out to the Crofoot/Pike Room, and they had banned smoking at some (if not most) events even before the statewide measure kicked in. for some recent developments, here's a smoky link: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/viewart/20120430/NEWS01/304300026/Michigan-smoking-ban-still-hot-issue

Those of you who are in the city fairly often, help me out: when did the city/county/whoever start painting bike-only lanes?! I was in Corktown yesterday, and those bike lanes definitely weren't there a year ago! :D It's a great idea; I remember reading about 3 years back that it was being considered, but I had no idea they'd gone ahead with it. Alright, Detroit!

Ford's (yes, the blue oval people) E-Bike concept: the frame only weighs a bit over 5 lbs., and the battery's built into the frame. Range is 58 miles fully charged. Fingers crossed for them to sell it worldwide.

Downtown Detroit's 7 most dangerous buildings: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/detroits-most-dangerous-buildings

giant tiger shrimp invading Gulf of Mexico: http://news.asiantown.net/r/23801/giant-13-inch-cannibal-asian-tiger-shrimp-invade-gulf-of-mexico-waters ...how is this a bad thing, exactly?

Instead of complaining, we should all be trying to think up some grant proposals. :D

From the people who brought you Repo: the Genetic Opera...and featuring Emilie Autumn: It had some East Coast showings this past weekend, and should be here soon. :D

watch it and you'll agree.

OK, this sounds bad: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/mystery-disease-kills-19-people-sickens-171-others-in-vietnam-who-asked-to-investigate/2012/04/20/gIQAs9rgUT_story.html

man, if I had the $$$, I'd buy this place tomorrow and renovate it:

holy fuck, this is incredible:

rockin' the Coachella stage with Snoop and Dre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L73tGfOam4#!

roses are red violets are blue I'm so much more goth-er than u

*bump* no, no, I don't have news of a Detroit date or anything. I can say that he IS doing some shows in Ireland in September, so keep a look out, just in case. :D

if you got the time, we got the EN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnOFNh9HtE :peanutbutterjellytime: :peanutbutterjellytime:

any plans to annex Canada?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWW1gWyMoo&feature=relmfu :heart: :heart: