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valerie
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You can help tell Ann Arborites about Grex
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Sep 30 02:36 UTC 1997 |
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valerie
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response 1 of 111:
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Sep 30 02:41 UTC 1997 |
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krj
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response 2 of 111:
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Sep 30 04:04 UTC 1997 |
* Hand out leaflets, or bookmarks, promoting Grex. Ideas for a good
time to do this: downtown, in the time before and after a home
football game. Downtown midnight madness sale -- end of October,
I think.
* What does an ad in the Observer cost?
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omni
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response 3 of 111:
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Sep 30 15:24 UTC 1997 |
You know, Community access TV is also another way to get the word out.
How about a spot on Access Soapbox? It's totally free. You cannot beat that
price.
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mta
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response 4 of 111:
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Sep 30 18:29 UTC 1997 |
Already arranged, Jim. We're also producing a couple of videos about
how to use GREX to be aired on CTN. (A professional videographer is
doing the production, so it should look pretty good!)
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dang
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response 5 of 111:
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Sep 30 20:39 UTC 1997 |
This item is now linked to Co-op.
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mta
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response 6 of 111:
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Sep 30 20:57 UTC 1997 |
If anyone wants to distribute fliers, but doesn't have any ideas for
what to say, I have a stock of flier ideas and I'd be glad to create a
flier for you to duplicate and distribute. Just contact me!
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jenna
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response 7 of 111:
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Oct 2 01:57 UTC 1997 |
I say paint the rock, repeatedly, and Poet's Alley ;}
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other
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response 8 of 111:
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Oct 2 05:17 UTC 1997 |
would poet's alley be the alley wheich runs between tally ahll and the
michigan theatre?
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rcurl
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response 9 of 111:
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Oct 2 06:34 UTC 1997 |
"the rock" is one of the most ancient objects of its size above ground in Ann
Arbor. It should be restored, and respected as a symbol of the origin of
our landscape. Others have been vandalizing it - let's not add advertising
- even for grex - to the infamy.
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void
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response 10 of 111:
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Oct 2 10:59 UTC 1997 |
(actually, i've been wondering for a while now just how thick the
paint on the rock really is. and i understand that painting it was
decriminalized a few years ago.)
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davel
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response 11 of 111:
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Oct 2 13:25 UTC 1997 |
(Actually, the rock was moved to a sanctuary some years ago. What's there
now is solid paint.)
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bru
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response 12 of 111:
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Oct 2 16:30 UTC 1997 |
Not only legalized, but regulated. There are rules for how the rock gets
painted and how the materials used are to be disposed of.
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valerie
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response 13 of 111:
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Oct 2 18:05 UTC 1997 |
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other
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response 14 of 111:
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Oct 2 20:28 UTC 1997 |
i once went with a friend to peel the rock. we tore off layers half an inch
thich and there was still more. there is a plaque on the rock under the
paint, but it is impossible to tell what it says...
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senna
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response 15 of 111:
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Oct 2 20:45 UTC 1997 |
Unfortunately, they don't regulate the type of paint you use... I sat on it
recently, and paint was sheeting off. Rather messy. (The green stuff under
it wouldn't wash for anything, either).
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bjorn
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response 16 of 111:
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Oct 3 00:08 UTC 1997 |
One thing I objected to is a while back that someone had actually engraved
the rock with a cross. It's not the symbol I was disgusted with, just the
fact that someone would actually engrave it.
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jenna
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response 17 of 111:
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Oct 3 02:50 UTC 1997 |
Good lord. its a rock. it doesn't need to be rotected. the whole world is one
big rock. *smiles* with lots of paint opn it ;}
poet's all... um.. i think so... i haven't been there since I was 15
how would I remember...
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senna
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response 18 of 111:
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Oct 3 05:38 UTC 1997 |
Um, back to publicizing grex... Pioneer Theater Guild is doing four shows of
Once Upon a Mattress later this month. Advertising is available in the
programs that will be given to each member of the audience (hopefully 3000
people). Off the top of my head, I think the rates are $30 for a business
card, $45 for a quarter page, $60 or $70 for half a page, and $100 for a full
page. A page is equivalent to half a page of computer paper. I'm thinking
grex will want to stick to the business card size, since we have very little
to say in an ad anyway. I'm not sure of the deadline, but it's fairly soon.
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rcurl
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response 19 of 111:
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Oct 3 06:13 UTC 1997 |
(So, jenna,. you like all the graffiti on rocks along freeways - how about
a big painted advert on Half Dome, in Yosemite? Rocks *are* protected,
for aesthetic and even scientific reasons. Painting natural features of an
area - rocks, trees, people's houses, their cars - what have you - is all
vandalism, unless you *own* whatever you paint. The acquiescence of the city
to having "the rock" painted was a cop out and has set a very bad example
to children.)
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dang
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response 20 of 111:
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Oct 3 16:01 UTC 1997 |
I would disagree. I'd say that allowing people to paint the rock would
lower the instance of other vandalism. I know that if I wanted to paint
something, I'd rather paint the rock legally than something else
illegally and run the risk of being caught.
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aruba
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response 21 of 111:
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Oct 3 18:43 UTC 1997 |
I think dang's right.
Re #18: Steve, could you find out that deadline for us? Unless told
otherwise, I suspect we will wait for the next board meeting to allocate
money for an ad. So if the deadline is sooner, we'll have to make a decision
via e-mail, which takes a little longer. Anyway, post that date as soon as
you can, would you? Thanks.
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valerie
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response 22 of 111:
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Oct 3 18:53 UTC 1997 |
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aruba
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response 23 of 111:
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Oct 3 18:56 UTC 1997 |
Actually, what the heck, I'd split the cost of a $45 ad with you, Valerie, if
you can think of some text for it.
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senna
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response 24 of 111:
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Oct 3 20:57 UTC 1997 |
The deadline is most assuredly before the next board meeting, since the show
goes up the night after the next board meeting would usually occur.
Any idea what you want to say?
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