Come Shopping
In addition to all the personal shopping we did in Michigan, Melissa and I picked up a few things for you as well. We’ve launched an Etsy store called Mighty Goods Finds with all the awesome finds we’d have squirreled away if only we had endless space.
I’ve been daydreaming about doing little travel stores ever since we came back from Argentina last year with a suitcase full of amazing stuff. So if this ends up being as much fun as I think it’ll be, maybe you’ll see a little shop pop up every time the editors travel.
We’ll be posting something new every day until we run out of goods, so go have a look and see if there’s a good gift for someone on your list.
Detroit!
I find myself oddly in love with Detroit. I didn’t know much about it before we left, but it turns out to be kind of magically empty. There are people everywhere, just not as many as you expect to see given the infrastructure. All these gorgeous buildings are being left to themselves, like giant, crazy-expensive sculptures. Plus there’s all this amazing modernist architecture going for a song. It feels like it’s on the verge of a thousand artists descending and making it a freaky creative wonderland. Anyway, I didn’t have much time to go on photo safari, but here are a few shots I got. If you’re looking for shots of Melissa and her crew, they’re on Flickr.
Keg in the Bathtub
In Kalamazoo, Melissa and I score an upgrade to a suite at the Radisson. It’s enormous.
Melissa: This room is the first time I’ve ever wished I was a teenager again, so we could throw a raging party.
Me: And have hot teenage sex.
Melissa: There’s no such thing as hot teenage sex.
Me: What!? You’re forgetting all about the hot teenage boys.
Melissa: I guess you could have like twenty seconds of hot teenage sex.
Me: Hot teenage hotel room sex with someone in the bed next to you who has to pretend to be asleep.
Melissa: Haaaaaaahhht.
Melissa’s Finds
Michigan Buys
Melissa and I went shopping. It was so much fun that I think I’m flying home a little broken. Anyway, we have many more purchases to show you. Just you wait. In the meantime, here are my finds:
Privacy
Logan: I hope you don’t mind, I made you a “friend” on Flickr.
Bryan: I don’t know if we’re close enough yet.
Me: I don’t really use those features. The only person who can see my family-only photos is Bryan.
Melissa: So you upload a lot of personal porn.
Me: Totally. Personal porn for Bryan and the entire team at Flickr, who we have brunch with once a month or so.
Melissa: Heather’s like, “Maggie! Someone hacked your account!”
Me: Uh… No. That’s my bush. It was supposed to be private. But… I guess you can look at it, or whatever.
Melissa: And you’ve tagged it maggiesbush.
Maggie: Oh yeah, all of them are tagged and cross-referenced. Like you have a personal collection of porn so huge it needs to be easily searchable.
Melissa: There’s like 400 tags on each photo.
Me: A lot of them are in Japanese. Korean. Like, “Is that… Hindi? Huh.”
Slides
Forgot to mention that you can download the Blogging Genius presentation slides here.
Ten Steps to Blogging Genius Presentation
The reason you should never use a 4G photo memory card is that when it konks out, you lose weeks of your life. I can’t even remember what was on the begining of the damn thing, but all my Detroit photos so far are kaput. I’ll miss you Eastern Market, gorgeous burnt-out ruins, weird face Melissa makes when you tell her you want to cuddle. I’ll miss all of you. In the meantime, here are some presentation photos Bryan took.
Hank hearts Melissa
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Sorry for the interruption in service yesterday. I had wine-related technical difficulties. Mainly that I forgot to post until after it was imprudent to post. Detroit rocks so far.
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