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test of video in 'tripledemic' post
Nov. 30th, 2022 08:44 amI wanted to see if the following video would embed before using it in Michigan COVID-19 deaths pass 40,000, a pandemic update. It did.
Rejected video for Ambassador Bridge post
Feb. 9th, 2022 11:59 pmI decided the following video was too repetitive for Canadian trucker convoy spills over into U.S., blocking Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, so I left it out.
Rejected video for back to school post
Aug. 30th, 2021 10:22 amI decided against using the following video in Masks on the agenda as students return to school in Michigan, a pandemic update because it wasn't about masks, even though it was about back to school.
Discarded videos for eviction post
Aug. 2nd, 2021 12:30 pmI decided to not use either of these videos in Eviction crisis looms after eviction moratorium expires, a pandemic update because they were already out of date.
I decided against using the following video in Carl Levin, Michigan's longest serving U.S. Senator, dies at 87 because I used other videos with much of the same information.
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Rejected video for a postponed Tax Day
Jul. 15th, 2020 12:06 pmI remembered to use the postponed video for a postponed Tax Day in today's Vox explains who really pays the lowest tax rates for a postponed Tax Day plus Supreme Court rules on Trump's tax returns, so I didn't use the following video, which I would have if I had forgotten.
WXYZ on the Rouge River clean up
May. 20th, 2019 10:06 amAt Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I'm celebrating World Bee Day. On Saturday, I did something more practical for the environment, participate in the Rouge River clean up. Here is WXYZ's report on the 2016 event.
I didn't clear log jams. It was raining and there weren't enough people, so the other volunteers and I weeded out garlic mustard, an invasive plant, from a natural area. I now know what that weed looks like and will remove it from my yard.
I didn't clear log jams. It was raining and there weren't enough people, so the other volunteers and I weeded out garlic mustard, an invasive plant, from a natural area. I now know what that weed looks like and will remove it from my yard.
Fat Tuesday, Paczki Day in Detroit
Feb. 13th, 2018 07:16 amIt's Fat Tuesday AKA Paczki Day. Over at Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I celebrated with 'Get Out,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and 'BoJack Horseman' win WGA Awards for Fat Tuesday/Paczki Day. I did include one picture of a paczki.
For a sample of the usual celebration, here's a clip from WXYZ in Detroit.
For a sample of the usual celebration, here's a clip from WXYZ in Detroit.
A belated Detroit birthday to Harry Potter
Aug. 1st, 2017 07:10 pm
Since I posted July's saved comments yesterday, I have today free to do something not related to my blogging and commenting life elsewhere. WXYZ provided me that something yesterday with On Harry Potter's birthday, a reminder: Daniel Radcliffe is a Red Wings fan.
After 28 years of living here, I've learned that Detroit media will celebrate any connection with Detroit.
Winter Storm Ion entries
Jan. 5th, 2014 09:29 am
I was very busy elsewhere blogging about Winter Storm Ion yesterday. At Crazy Eddie's Motie News I opened Metro Detroit bracing for Winter Storm Ion with my experiences shopping yesterday.
Last night, I told my readers Winter Storm Ion is on its way. I just returned from the grocery store and, as I expected, the place was crazy busy. This was as bad as the night before a major food holiday, and the workers there said it had been worse earlier, with lines for the butcher going down the aisles and sales 50% above normal. Fortunately, the clerks were busy stocking, so the shelves were full and I was able to find everything I was looking for that the store normally carried.An hour later, things got worse, so I posted Warning issued for Ion in Metro Detroit
Then over at Daily Kos, I headlined Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Winter Storm Ion) with this article from The Weather Channel: Winter Storm Ion: Rockies, Midwest, Great Lakes, Mid-South Snow Followed by Brutal Cold
By Chris Dolce
Published: Jan 4, 2014, 10:46 PM EST
Winter Storm Ion is spreading a swath of snow from the Rockies to portions of the Midwest, Great Lakes and Mid-South this weekend. Following closely behind Ion will be a blast of brutally cold air in the Midwest.Stay warm, everyone.
Ion's upper-level energy, which brought snow to the Rockies through the Central Plains and into the Great Lakes on Saturday, will pivot eastward into the nation's midsection through early Sunday. As a result, low pressure will begin to develop over the Southern Plains and then head towards the eastern Great Lakes by Sunday night.
This will lead to the development of widespread accumulating snow from Missouri to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and southern Lower Michigan through Sunday morning. The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings for portions of these states.
The snow will be heavy at times and will be accompanied by increasing winds, which will lead to low visibility and very poor travel conditions Sunday.
The prediction is for nice mild weather the rest of this week, which I'm looking forward to. It beats the heat we had late last week along with the storms that hit on Saturday from which the area is still recovering. It also means that the air conditioning can finally go off. My wife and I have the windows open and the cool evening breeze blowing through them.
As for the storms themselves, I chronicled Saturday's wild weather and its aftermath in Thunderstorms disrupt Michigan season opener, Arts, Beats, and Eats, and other events and Last night's storm knocked out power to 120,000 customers and damaged mobile homes on Crazy Eddie's Motie News. Surf over and read about the first calling of a U of M football game for weather and all kinds of other weather-related mayhem that happened all around me.
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#Woodward #DreamCruise kicks off for 2011
Aug. 15th, 2011 11:14 pmPeople are talking about their Dream Cruise dream cars as we ramp up the preparations for Saturday's Woodward Dream Cruise.As you can see, this has become a major cultural event, even if it's one that celebrates a pre-sustainability ideal. I'm not going to burn any extra fossil fuel as part of the celebration of automobiles, as Woodward Dream Cruise passes within walking distance of where I live. I should know; I walked to it last year. I'll be walking to it again.
Two more videos with commentary at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
It's been a wild couple of days
Aug. 5th, 2011 06:22 pmYesterday afternoon, I posted a video in Next Media Animation on the Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis that portrayed Chinese displeasure with the debt ceiling deal, which I'm just going to call the Satan Sandwich from now on (I'm also adding a "Satan Sandwich" label/tag to all my posts about it), along with all kinds of wild financial news from the day before yesterday. Yesterday was even worse, as the rest of the financial markets weighed the deal and wrote "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" on the walls of the exchanges.
Stock market tumble
Investors flee economic gloom, policy paralysis
Wall Street suffers worst selloff in two years
Gold eases below lifetime high; investors cover losses
Stocks are falling again on more fears of economic weakness in the U.S. and Europe's debt crisis.
More at The financial markets think it's a Satan Sandwich, too and WXYZ has local reaction to yesterday's and today's stock plunge on Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
Stock market tumble
Investors flee economic gloom, policy paralysis
Wall Street suffers worst selloff in two years
Gold eases below lifetime high; investors cover losses
Stocks are falling again on more fears of economic weakness in the U.S. and Europe's debt crisis.
More at The financial markets think it's a Satan Sandwich, too and WXYZ has local reaction to yesterday's and today's stock plunge on Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
Hot enough for you?
Jul. 21st, 2011 01:13 pmFirst, Next Media Animation for the global perspective.
Today's forecast.
More, including how the blackout in Ferndale resulted in my driving to Troy for dinner, at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The US is going through a prolonged heatwave that has blanketed the eastern half of the country. Although the heatwave hit the South and Mid-west the hardest, the hot weather is moving towards the East Coast in the coming days.Now the local one from WXYZ-TV.
As people in the affected areas turn on their air conditioners, the nation's power grid is coming under strain. This summer is a hot one not just for the US, but also in other corners of the globe.
Beijing recently hit 105F, nearing records. A Stanford study says heatwaves could become common in the US in the next 30 years due to global warming.
But more and more Americans are becoming skeptical.
Today's forecast.
More, including how the blackout in Ferndale resulted in my driving to Troy for dinner, at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
Kroger in Royal Oak, the videos
Jun. 30th, 2011 11:27 pmIn the intro to part one of last week's sustainability news linkspam, I mentioned "a local sustainability issue that looks like just a zoning and development issue, but has turned into something else entirely" in passing. In the spirit of "a picture is worth 1000 words," I give you these videos from WXYZ-TV. Issues of sustainable local business and sustainable built environment pop up all through both videos, including a mention of Royal Oak's walkable neighborhoods and walkable downtown. Then, there's the accusations of corruption by a lobbyist for the convenience store competitors of the proposed Kroger. And you thought city council meetings were boring.
I have a lot more to write about this issue, including coverage from Royal Oak Patch that follows up on the meetings and the provides more detail and my personal opinion of this (it's a very local issue for me, as the site in question is within walking distance of where my wife and I live--she has an opinion, too), but I have to run an errand and go to work. Stay tuned!
Above originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News here.
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