Geeky news from Detroit: Robocop statue nixed and university quidditch team
Detroit Free Press: Mayor Bing: Detroit won't build RoboCop statue
By STEVE NEAVLING
Sci-fi fans won't take no for an answer: A statue of RoboCop must be erected in Detroit.
What started as a single suggestion for the statue on Mayor Dave Bing's Twitter account Monday ballooned into an international cyberspace debate Tuesday about the merits of immortalizing the 1987 science-fiction classic based on the city with a statue. Local supporters are planning petitions and protests.
"There are not any plans to erect a statue of RoboCop," Bing wrote on his Twitter account. "Thank you for your suggestion."
"There are not any plans to erect a statue of RoboCop," Bing wrote on his Twitter account. "Thank you for your suggestion."
His rejection unleashed a wave of responses from both sci-fi fans and others amused by the debate.
Comments are pretty failtastic, but the earlier version of this article has comments that are actually kinda funny.
And now, something more positive from one of my alma maters.
Eastern Michigan University: Some EMU students find competitive spirit through the magic of quidditch
By Amy E. Whitesall
Anyone who's seen the Harry Potter movies or read any of the wildly popular novels by J.K. Rowling knows a thing or two about quidditch. The official sport of the wizarding world, it's a physical, fast-moving aerial game, played by characters on flying broomsticks.
Well, quidditch has come down to earth. In November, Eastern Michigan's Flying Squirrels Quidditch Team competed against the world's best at the Fourth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City. The competition featured about 20 teams playing over the course of two days on four fields in Manhattan's Dewitt Clinton Park.
Middlebury College beat Tufts 100-50 in the championship game.
Much more about muggle quidditch at the link.
Above crossposted to fandom_lounge on JournalFen.
By STEVE NEAVLING
Sci-fi fans won't take no for an answer: A statue of RoboCop must be erected in Detroit.
What started as a single suggestion for the statue on Mayor Dave Bing's Twitter account Monday ballooned into an international cyberspace debate Tuesday about the merits of immortalizing the 1987 science-fiction classic based on the city with a statue. Local supporters are planning petitions and protests.
"There are not any plans to erect a statue of RoboCop," Bing wrote on his Twitter account. "Thank you for your suggestion."
"There are not any plans to erect a statue of RoboCop," Bing wrote on his Twitter account. "Thank you for your suggestion."
His rejection unleashed a wave of responses from both sci-fi fans and others amused by the debate.
Comments are pretty failtastic, but the earlier version of this article has comments that are actually kinda funny.
And now, something more positive from one of my alma maters.
Eastern Michigan University: Some EMU students find competitive spirit through the magic of quidditch
By Amy E. Whitesall
Anyone who's seen the Harry Potter movies or read any of the wildly popular novels by J.K. Rowling knows a thing or two about quidditch. The official sport of the wizarding world, it's a physical, fast-moving aerial game, played by characters on flying broomsticks.
Well, quidditch has come down to earth. In November, Eastern Michigan's Flying Squirrels Quidditch Team competed against the world's best at the Fourth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City. The competition featured about 20 teams playing over the course of two days on four fields in Manhattan's Dewitt Clinton Park.
Middlebury College beat Tufts 100-50 in the championship game.
Much more about muggle quidditch at the link.
Above crossposted to fandom_lounge on JournalFen.