The Get to Know You Game...

[Paper Hearts]

you're right, there's no point.

are you coming in August, did you check out the Holiday Inn Express I mentioned?

[Brenda Starrr]

Now it looks like July or wait till September as originally planned

Disappointed?

[Paper Hearts]

well, July would be sooner...i might have a few days off then too. September has the Jazz fest and I believe Dally in the Alley...

did you know about those?

[Brenda Starrr]

I did not.

What's your opinion on the Hyatt Regency Dearborn?

[Paper Hearts]

Dearborn is okay...good drive-in out that way and a few good restaurants-but I'm an East-sider. if you're near Times Square, Downtown (and Detroit is not as bad as you hear) you can get the "People-Mover" monorail which does a loop around downtown, and all busses to all points stop at Times Square. You can walk to festivals, the best restaurants and Bars. That Holiday Inn I mentioned is right there (Washington Blvd & Michigan Ave., Detroit) and they just built it. Should be very clean. It's a walk to City Club from there, too.

sound intersting?

Edited May 20, 2005 by Paper Hearts

[wheresmypiggy]

I prefer the Renissance building...

How about you?

[Brenda Starrr]

I think that the Hyatt is in the Renaissance bldg

Am I wrong?

[Paper Hearts]

it's just that all busses to all points, including Canada stop at Times Square and Michigan @ Washington is more central-you can walk to GreekTown, etc..

know what I'm sayin', yo?

[Brenda Starrr]

I got ya.

What does Detroit get such a bad rap?

[Paper Hearts]

I believe it's just because anytime they mention Detroit, the ratings go up-like when they tell you there will be lightning or show you a fire on the news. I was born in Detroit, I've lived and worked there my whole life, almost, I walk the streets at night and never get fucked with...you'll be cool Brenda. We'll show you the place like we know it and you'll love it.

Are you into archetecture?

[Brenda Starrr]

Absolutely!

Ever been in an old building and felt a "presence"?

[Paper Hearts]

Albert Kahn, America's second most prolific archetect (after Frank Loyd Wright) built most of Detroit (from sky-scrapers to factories, to the most important homes and museums, even light houses and theatres). His sky-scrapers were the prototypes for buildings like the Empire State building and Detroit being a proving ground for these types of buildings holds on of the larges and oldest collection of them anywwhere. Detroit is rated 3rd in the country for archetecture (after New York and Chicago). -The economic downturn here in the 70's and 80's saved all of those old buildings as there was no money to build new things like happened in most other large citys-many of these buildings are now vacant, but they are still all there. Kahn's Packard plant (near Hammtramck) was the model proably the most important factory floor plan ever and was even copied by the Nazis for tank production. Kahn also built the Burroughs Adding Machine factory (as in inventor, father of wrighter William S. Burroughs) by this plan and that is also in Detroit.

also, did you know Detroit has on of the top rated Art institutes in the Western Hemosphere? (oops, shite, no "presence")

Edited May 20, 2005 by Paper Hearts

[Brenda Starrr]

I did not know this.

Are you always this full of information?

[wheresmypiggy]

The marriott is in the renissance building.

I wish I was an information super highway.

Are you going to stay there?

[Paper Hearts]

I hope not. -The museum holds one of the most eclectic collections of western art in the world. It also houses a large Diego Rivera mural which depicts capitalism in the shape of a syphilis cell and celebrates socialism repeatedly-(remember in the Kahlo movie, the one in New York's Rockefeller was destroyed?).

*Henry Ford hospital in Detroit is where Fridah Kahlo had her miscarriage, not in New York, as the Kahlo movie showed.

Did you know in the back of the DIA there is a theatre where films are still shown and it is one of the oldest theatres built specifically for the purpose of film, in the world? (phuced us again, sorry)

Edited May 20, 2005 by Paper Hearts

[phee]

Nope not me...

Are you going to move over there?

[Brenda Starrr]

No.

What else do you know?

[Paper Hearts]

ummm...the Heidelburg Project, the DogTower and Hammtramck DisneyLand.

should shut up?

[phee]

Hmmm?

Should shut up what?

[Paper Hearts]

yeah,

it's better just to show people, isn't it?

[wheresmypiggy]

Not always. This one time I tried to show one of my tattoos, there was a police officer right there...

Detroit or Toronto? Which do you prefer?

[Paper Hearts]

I've wanted to move abroad for a looong time. I've done the Detroit thing long enough...

you feel me?

[wheresmypiggy]

Totally. Not in the literal sense.

I lived in Toronto, Detroit, Kentucky, Cincy. Detroit has the best scene so far.

You agree?

[Paper Hearts]

i agree. I was in San Diego for a while-i want to move out of country now.

excitement and adventure?

[phee]

Really... I know Toronto was running pretty strong...

Did you ever go to Sanctuary?