The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #169
Why Ford spent $1 billion to transform an abandoned Detroit train station, Fast Company, Nate Berg, June 4, 2024
This most iconic of “ruin porn” Detroit artifacts has been meticulously restored, amid a somewhat quiet but real resurgence of Detroit’s population and economic situation. It’s pretty clear that the city hit rock-bottom some years ago and, however slowly, is recovering. Unlikely as this might seem, Detroit was always far too large and important a city to simply slip away into a ghost town. The restoration of the building was a real, serious endeavor:
It doesn’t convince me that a car company is a great civic benefactor, but there’s something very nice and old-fashioned in a good way about seeing a private corporation do something philanthropic or in the public interest like this. The piece is very long and full of the building’s history and restoration process. Read the whole thing. Wednesday Walk: One Less HoJo, Willoughby Hills, Heath Racela, June 5, 2024
This is basically how I think about this sort of churn in the built environment. I think landmarks and memories do amount to something; I think continuity in our surroundings engenders a sense of stability and security that may be worth something. But everything old was once new, and everything new may one day be old. Time can hallow things, but there’s no reason to act as though that process can no longer unfold with the boring, common artifacts of the present day—which is what almost all historic commercial architecture once was. This is a very nice piece expressing this tension very articulately. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, The Lamp, Hannah Rowan, June 7, 2024 This piece is somewhat critical of “fat pride” or whatever you would call it, but does have some nuance. There’s a lot here, give it a read. Mostly, though, it makes me think about a very American tendency among both progressives and conservatives. We seem to take American problems (car dependence and traffic congestion, urban disorder, mass homelessness, or in this case obesity) and draw them into the culture war and imbue them with a moral and cultural valence, rather than show some curiosity as to why exactly America seems to suffer from these problems in an outsized manner. Yes, if you’re overweight, you deserve respect and not discrimination. But lateral to that is the fact that America suffers from an outsized obesity rate, and making sure fat people have dignity shouldn’t be seen as running counter to probing obesity in general as a public health problem. And somehow those concerns seem to get split apart and sorted by politics. Just my thoughts. A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved, 404 Media, Jason Koebler, June 6, 2024
Who knew these decades-old tiny primitive electronic toys would hold an interesting bit of trivia like this. I love stories in small, ordinary things. Give it a read! Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only piece, plus full access to the archive: over 1,000 pieces and growing. And you’ll help ensure more like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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In suburbia, a human being becomes a car ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Life Is A Joke
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Be the star of your own comedy show ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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