Friday, April 16, 2004

How Gauche

Back on April 5th, I mentioned Jennifer Granholm’s latest pet project in a post titled “Competition To Be Cool.”  The competion, is part of the “Cool Cities Pilot Program,” and its purported purpose is to, supposedly, figure out how to make Michigan cities cool.  You know, to have cachet like Hollywood, or something along those lines.  Let’s take a look at some of the suggestions to be cool thrown out at Granholm’s latest Dr. Phil style forum held at Grand Valley State University’s Loosemore Auditorium.

Julie Christensen, a college educator and consultant.

“I’m 29 and not thinking about having a family at all.  My friends and I watch “Sex and the City” and we want to go out after work and have drinks and food from different cultures.  We want different places to go that are not all about family.”

Well, that’s a real helpful suggestion, Julie.  Might I suggest you wander outside your little world and visit some of the Mexican owned mom and pop restaurants and bars.  You may even be able to catch “Sex and the City” dubbed in Spanish.

A gentleman by the name of Mike Krause thinks cool is the ability to have a nice ride, a “set of wheels.”  Granholm took this to mean that Krause was lobbying for a light rail system, and sure enough, the entire group thought that would be cool.  It would probably be cheaper just to buy all the dreamers a new set of wheels.

If the state needs to look for cool, I can almost guarantee they aren’t going to find it.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/16 at 05:46 AM
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