We hear from an ex-legislator, bloggers, Jack Lessenberry and others with choice quotes from the past week.
"Lt. Gov. Calley sells Michigan to Netherlands."
-- Detroit Free Press headline on trade mission coverage Friday, later changed online
"I'm not part of the Model D-approved influencer circle."
-- Aaron Foley, posting at Detroit Jalopnik about "a sibling rivalry-type competition" for city-uplift cred
"Berry Gordy's book makes 'Jersey Boys' look like Eugene O'Neill."
-- David Rooney, reviewing "Motown: The Musical" in the Holllywood Reporter
"I love dogs as much as anyone, but even I can’t help but think [it] isn't the greatest idea . . . to allow dogs in restaurants. Because what could possibly go wrong with a bunch of dogs on leashes around people carrying trays of hot food? Really."
-- Nancy Nall Derringer, blogging on state legislation to let dogs in sidewalk dining areas
"Dave Agema needs to do his party a favor and resign."
-- Leon Drolet, former Republican representative in Lansing, in Free Press commentary
"Venturing through blue-collar neighborhoods, down to an industrial waterfront with no pretense of prettiness and finally past Fort Wayne is a journey of Dickensian dimensions."."
-- Dave Waddell, Windsor Star writer, reporting on Detroit bus tour
"if I were in the least bit snarky, . . . I might speculate that any woman who slept with Bernard Kilpatrick and gave birth to Kwame might well know something about strange life forms."
-- Jack Lessenberry, in Metro Times column on Carolyn Kilpatrick's paid role at space aliens forum
"In Detroit we entrepreneurs are destined to fail publicly. Our trials and errors are visible because in Detroit these tiny, early-version missteps into action are newsworthy. Detroit is a very small town."
-- Jared Saverino of Royal Oak, commenting at HuffPost Detroit on White Entrepreneurial Detroit Guy meme
"If there is a lesson from the White Detroit Entrepreneur Guy meme, it's this: Clever phrases and bluster can't improve the value of vacuous crap."
-- Jeff Wattrick, writing at Deadline Detroit
"The instruction booklet was a little bigger than a Saltine."
-- Tom Greenwood, Detroit News columnist, reviewing a dashboard video camera
