The Clam Rampant

Kasia September 4th, 2008

Ooh, does that modifier look good!!!

For anyone who has happened to miss it, Detroit’s national embarrassment seems to be concluding. Kwame Kilpatrick has signed plea deals that should wrap up the legal circus that has been running for the past several months.

I’m more than a little biased. I’ve thought he should get out since sometime in his first term, when the now-legendary red Navigator story broke, and his re-election was one of the main reasons I finally said “Enough is enough” and moved out to the suburbs. I figured if the citizens of Detroit were that eager to have their pockets picked by someone who’s supposed to be in office to serve them, then I wasn’t going to stick around and continue to fund it. (Detroit is one of the few municipalities in Michigan that has an income tax; and while I still have to pay about 1.5% of my income to them for the privilege of working within the city limits, at least it’s not the 3% it was when I lived AND worked in the city.)

Don’t get me wrong – I don’t hate the man. I just think he’s got a sense of entitlement the size of Alaska and a sense of honor and decency the size of, oh, Hamtramck. (For you non-Detroiters, Hamtramck is a 2.1 square mile city that is completely surrounded by Detroit and has great Polish food. That last bit isn’t really relevant, but I happen to love Polish food, so you got it anyway.)

By the way, that link above may cover a fair bit of ground, but it cannot possibly do justice to the absolute freakin’ soap opera that Detroiters have been living for the better part of a year. Perhaps TBS will consent to do one of her inimitable comprehensive summaries of what’s happened?

In any event, I can only breathe a huge sigh of relief and thank the good Lord that the soap opera seems to be winding down at last (though there are no guarantees of that). But I’m not going to rest easy until I see who gets elected to replace him. Considering that the city has an adult rate of functional illiteracy of oh, around 50%, I’m not overly optimistic.

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Kasia September 2nd, 2008

Yes, I took an unintentional hiatus. Stuff was piling up faster than I could deal with it, and blogging went to the back burner. However, I am now back, and expect to continue to be blogging at least a few times a week henceforth. We’ll see how that pans out.

Please note the new comment policy (look near the top of the page for the link). If you can’t abide by it, please keep your comments to yourself. I really would rather not enable comment moderation and/or ban anyone, but I will do it if I have to – this is my blog, not a sewerbound mud fight, and I will not suffer it to be hijacked. Thanks much.

Now that THAT’S out of the way…

Wedding plans continue apace. Canuck has bought his suit, we’ve booked the florist, and we’ve been assigned our liturgy assistants. We’ve also just learned that we will be kneeling (and occasionally standing) through the entire Mass. I didn’t know about that before, but I’m glad I found out when I still have almost five months to train… :-p

I’ve also found someone to do my dress alterations, and am hoping to get an appointment with her soon. My tiara (gah!) has come, and is very pretty (even if it is a tiara). It’s actually not a true tiara, but more of a glorified barrette, except that it’s on a comb. TBS and my stepmother insisted that I needed something to give me a little height and a little glitz, so we compromised on what is perhaps the most un-tiara-like tiara that was available for purchase. (And it has now been discontinued. Go figure.)

I’m trying to figure out how to post pictures of the bridesmaid dresses, but as soon as I do they’ll be up…and I’m going on Thursday to procure a more suitable undergarment to wear under my dress. (I originally went for “pretty” – now I’ve realized I need to go for “practical”.)

I’ve got to skedaddle – TBS and I are going out in a short while to run some errands. More updates soon – or is that like Custer saying “I’ll talk to you right after I wallop those Indians”?

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