Ann Arbor is a different place on game day. The 110,000-faithful headed to the Big House take up a lot of space, from bars and restaurants and parking spots to simple space on streets leading to the game. It wasn’t much of a surprise when Kathy and I were making wedding arrangements in 1986 – we wantedContinue reading “the tyranny of game day”
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da vinner!
Fans of James Jarmusch’s breakthrough 1984 film “Stranger than Paradise” (1) will recognize Aunt Lotte’s (Cecilia Stark’s) line, uttered as she bests in a game of cards her nephews Eddie and Billy visiting her in Cleveland from NYC. As she triumphantly fans her cards over her tray in her living room, she announces frankly “I amContinue reading “da vinner!”
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