I just was hoping there would be an OSC signing anywhere in the Michigan Detroit/Metro area ever. I hear all you guys talk about randomly running into other Hatrackers and I feel left out. I understand the Michigan isn't exactly the sci-fi capitol of the world but there are fans here..........and my first page of Giant seems to be missing something. Posted by StickyWicket (Member # 7926) on :
correction..... by the lack of responses to this thread I'd say that Michigan is that bad..... Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
thanks Sticky.....that was necessary.
Posted by OSTY (Member # 1480) on :
Ramadac99...why not travel a little to where he is doing a signing...its usually just a 5-6 hour drive to Ohio or Indiana.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I like Michigan. I've driven all over the lower peninsula in my time. But I don't pick my own tour sites.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Most terrifying landing in my life: the small propellor plane that landed me in Kalamazoo. We went straight down, it felt like. Thought I was on a dive bomber. Only barely kept myself from screaming.
That's when I realized that I don't have to put my life in the hands of New York travel agents when I'm on a signing tour (yep, Kalamazoo was for a signing). At the time I lived in South Bend Indiana. I should have insisted on driving. Nowadays, I do. Travel agents are all set to have me fly to LA, then fly again to San Diego. But I insist on driving, because by the time you arrive early, wait through security, etc., you could have gotten there by car. AND you don't have to pack the same way for a car trip as for a plane trip. You can be messier. Clean shirts can hang in the back seat instead of getting folded and creased in the luggage.
All this is to say that I have many memories of Michigan - the most vivid being when my life flashed before my eyes while I stared down at a little runway amid the cornfields around Kalamazoo.
Or was it Battle Creek? <grin>.
Teaching a week at Clarion in West Lansing was great. I've been to the Borders headquarters in Ann Arbor, and visited the university there. I've attended conventions in Detroit and walked the nine miles of corridors to get to the very last Northwestern gate in the Detroit airport - only to find that while I was walking, they gave my seat away, because they are b******s. (This is why I have a deep and abiding hatred for Northwestern Airlines, all their employees, and all their employees' children.)
I have driven the roads all around the thumb of the lower peninsula, from Flint to Detroit, and driven among the luridly wealthy houses of Grosse Point. I have crossed over the bridge into Canada and come back as quickly as possible because Canada has not bothered to actually put any scenery into that portion of their country closest to Detroit.
My question for you is: Have you ever been to Greensboro, North Carolina? Ha Ha, I thought not. So let's not hear any more whining from Michigan <grin>.
Posted by Hamson (Member # 7808) on :
I love that Borders in Ann Arbor. (I live about 40 minutes away)
Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
So, if I have spent a substantial amount of time in Greensboro, then I am entitled to whine about your tour cities? Posted by LucyPevensie (Member # 8537) on :
I'd love nothing more than to see OSC come to Michigan. I'd also love to come to Greensboro. Anything I've ever heard about North Carolina is that it's beautiful. I have a few friends that work at Schuler Books & Music in Lansing (a totally awesome independently owned bookstore WAY better than Barnes & Noble or Borders if you as me!) and I know that most of the staff has read the Ender series as well as most of everything else by OSC. I was involved in a lengthy conversation about who should play Ender in the movie version of Ender's Game before we even knew it would be a movie.
...btw I think that kid from The Ring could do an excellent job if they can make him age the right way...
Posted by LucyPevensie (Member # 8537) on :
whoa, got a little sidetracked in that last post... that's what I get for posting while i'm busy at work my point is that they would KILL to have OSC there, and they're big enough to handle the crowd that would surely gather.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Walked 9 miles at Metro Airport? That sounds about right, although if you were at the new Northwest terminal, you should have just taken the monorail to your gate. Granted you still have to walk a long ways just to get to the terminal, you get to walk in that psychadelic tunnel thing with the cool flashing lights.
Also: Argh! OSC was that close to me and I didn't even know it! I'm a hop skip and a jump away from Flint, Grosse Pointe and Ann Arbor. Actually I live near the center of all three of those parts.
Ramdac, Hamson, Telp - Next time there's an OSC signing in MI, IN or OH, we should hook up and drive down.
Lucy, where in MI are you? Lansing?
Posted by LucyPevensie (Member # 8537) on :
I was, now i'm in the detroit area.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
If you don't mind my asking, what city? I'm guessing Metro Detroit area, and not Detroit itself. How close are you to Royal Oak?
Posted by Loial (Member # 5788) on :
I love Michigan, I mean the album by Sufjan Stevens. Never been to the state though (or any other state)
Posted by LucyPevensie (Member # 8537) on :
Awww... Michigan is so pretty. The weather really sucks about 65% of the year, but if you're a wilderness fan you'll really love it here. There's so many great places to go camping and so many state parks to visit. Tequamenon Falls and Macinac Island are gorgeous. I live in Highland, which is sort of in the middle of nowhere, but close enough that if i'm in the mood to be a city girl I can head into Detroit.
Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
Lucy....are you who I think you are Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
Lyrhawn, I'm down......big up's MI hatrackers
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my point is that they would KILL to have OSC there, and they're big enough to handle the crowd that would surely gather.