The D

Tourist Attraction, for reals

Over the past few weeks, Mojo and I have been exchanging texts and emails over a really remarkable book on the city of Detroit, "Detroit City is the Place to Be," by Mark Binelli.  Part way through this, Mojo emailed, "we need to get together, drink a few beers, and talk about this book."  We then realized there are very few things you could replace "talk about this book with" and not have this be an awesome idea.  But I digress...

I get a lot of questions in Philly about the D, what's it really like, are the pictures true, how did it get that bad... I imagine Mojo has gotten them in his worldly travels, too.  Mostly, these questions are out of sheer curiosity and sympathy for our city.  And I gotta give my Philly people a lot of credit, they have a lot of respect for our city.  I told a few people here they would get along with everyone in Detroit, since I think Philly and Detroit have a pretty similar culture.

One quote in the book really stood out to me, and I want to address it, both to inquire what my peeps in the D think, and to enlighten my Philly friends, too.  Mojo and Fah T were both gracious enough to offer their takes, too.  So if you want to skip through my dribble and get to people who can actually write, So we offer this instead of our usual MLB preview.  Though I threw my picks in, too, of course.  Here's the quote...