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Michael M. Jackman

@michaeljackman.bsky.social
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Fiftysomething Detroit dad, husband, copy editor, writer, journalist, still writing a very long but interesting book about Detroit in the 1940s.

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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's always somebody losing their composure at the post office.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had the owner of a community bookstore reject my zine, telling me zines come and go and she has no place for them. I wasn't offended. I will continue to speak well of the shop. No accounting for people.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday: The King rode in the park
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Book Beat. Or send $5 (or anything really) to me at P. O. Box 2146, Detroit, MI 48202
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My zine is a critical success. Which is a very nice way of saying it is losing money. But I don't care. I'm doing a second issue anyway.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A century ago, various designs were submitted for a new City Hall for Detroit. This one is a fantasy of giantism. Ultimately, no new City Hall would be built until the international style municipal center built in the 1950s.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I gotta say, even though my other stuff -- my newsroom job, my book, my column -- is all going well, doing a zine has been equally exciting. I missed the Johnny Appleseed quality of it, how much I enjoy being a Mr. 880 of publishing.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I also left a display and copies at Trinosophes on Gratiot Avenue.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For those averse to money orders, stamps, mail and other old-fashioned folderol, the zine DETROIT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART is now available at Book Beat in Oak Park, Michigan.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Take a chance: Fold $5 and your address into an envelope and mail it to MM Jackman, PO Box 2146, Detroit MI 48202
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is my zine.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I did a zine
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
British People in Hot Weather
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I spent my time working, alone or with the boy. So when I have small conversations with other adults I find them so exciting they leave me smiling and thinking about them.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
unchaste? Or like a loose stool?
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A government of rich kids
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The tot can ride a bike, just like his older brother, at a young age. Was about to congratulate us on their accomplishment, then realized kids just get right-sized bikes younger today. It was an inconvenient capital expense for my Silent Generation parents. They waited. Our kids go early.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I worked across the street at the Strand in the 1990s. I always felt the need to be on my best behavior at FP. Judgment began as soon as one walked toward the store, just past our dollar bins.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I am starting the unofficial Argument of the Month Club, and will edit the quarterly publication, No You Don't!
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I am spending a lot of time with the tot watching Mikey and JJ. He let me watch part of a Popeye cartoon yesterday, but he has firm limits.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Is it normal to wake up one morning and everybody seems different, like they have always eaten other people and cannibalism is normal. What's wrong with you?
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The fascination in Michigan with "Hell" is obnoxious. First of all, it's really only a place name. There is no township or board of commissioners. It's a crossroads where bikers and other similar goofs gather to say they've been to Hell and back. Like a town thrown up by Kid Rock.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I didn't want to own a 20-year-old Jaguar, but I love the way some of the old guys in the neighborhood nod at me now.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm surprised it's so visual. Reminds me of the Rev. Claude Williams "orientation charts"
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Dear lord forgive me I saw the page of the interim Land Bank head and burst into laughter. www.jfrancisgrp.com/jfg-jglenn
jfrancisgrp.com
JFG - Meet J. Francis | The CEO
Meet Ja’Von F. Glenn, visionary CEO of the J. Francis Group. A national business strategist and trusted advisor to small and mid-sized companies, he’s driven by faith, legacy, and service—empowering l...
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Real wins for the nation are nice. But I'll take celebrating the man losing too.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Earlier this year, we were celebrating our 5-year-old's birthday and couldn't go outside because a demolition was taking place. I wonder what sort of soil is in there now. I don't let the kid play there a lot.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today I am at home writing. Looking forward to it. I have some good ideas and some scut work, I'll alternate. Writing at home is my eventual goal. Well, with less clutter and fewer gnats :P
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Duggan was always sophisticated. Calling it off at the Thursday cutoff was the best place to dump the news.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Odd ad placements
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I was so tired last night I couldn't muster the energy to attend the awards banquet. I blame my chronic sobriety.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Maybe Michigan politics were starting to get too real? P clear Duggan wanted to be a dealmaker, cutting ribbons and presiding over things. Mostly didn't want to lose.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Page 3 drollery in 1976
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBJ1...
youtube.com
Modern Schools of Motoring
YouTube video by Toy Dolls - Topic
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My threshold is hypocrisy
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Then it does the same things next door, blowing all the dust back onto the other lot. And snaps another CUTE PICTURE! HERE'S YOUR BILL!
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I think leaf blowers are a perfect metaphor for something. The crew comes and actually DIRTIES the air by blowing out exhaust from a 2-stroke engine, FOULS the air by filling it with dust, BLASTS OUT NOISE for a LONG TIME, then snaps a cute picture of it ALL CLEAN!
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Tottenham Hotspur played in Detroit in 1966?
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The system sometimes sips tea with a fly, then spits the fly out. This is because fishing a fly out of the tea makes everybody aware what you're doing. By carefully sipping in the fly and then spitting the fly out, few question what happened.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Is Mamdani out-Fiorello-ing Laguardia?
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When I was a kid, I didn't understand how the country could lose a war and then spend 20 years arguing about how it happened. Now that this country is losing multiple wars, I imagine people will argue about it for 120 years.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We're getting quite a show on our front walk this year.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I read many old newspaper articles about suicide and their connection to chronic poverty is undeniable.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I dunno. Detroit police hated Muslims in the 1930s because it was a color-blind credo that attracted African-Americans. But otherwise yes
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
As so today "caving fatality" enter my lexicon.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When I first met my stepson, his first words to me were "Go fuck yourself." In the last 11 years, he has moved on to, "Why don't you just go kill yourself?" I think he it shows how much he has grown.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I think Lewis Mumford argued that the aesthetics of the era of wood and water were better because the people designing the world lived in it. When people started mining, the entire culture began to take on that mentality, leaving the world, entering a place where even light had to be synthesized.
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I think I need a new browser. I can't deal with MSN as my "homepage" ugh. It's like the old WOMEN'S SECTION
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Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I am not ashamed of who I am. I'm out here trying. Sure is tough, though.
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