The folks at Emerge Miami are holding a communal yard sale at one of our places this Sunday. So far, the majority of materials seems to be books and movies, but there will be other awesome pre-loved items such as clothes, furniture, bicycles, and more! A portion of the proceeds will go to Emerge so it can keep doing its thing.
The sale is on Sunday, July 22nd, from 7 AM to around 4 PM. There are many contributors to it, and we’d love to offload onto you with great bargains and awesome thrift!
Send me a message for location and details!
Check out Emerge Miami for more nifty events around town!
Hello any friends who are Miami folk!
I am conducting a survey for a group project on Miami-Dade’s Urban Development Boundary and could use your input!
This is a project for a public policy analysis course involving a survey of Miami-Dade residents and their feedback on the Urban Development Boundary. Since this topic has come up at many Emerge meetings lately, it seems like a good time to use this class project to both gauge interest in this issue and maybe consider the data for future initiatives related to it. The survey is only 9 multiple choice questions, and shouldn’t take more than five minutes to complete.
This data is going to be finalized and charted on Thursday, 7/12. Please submit your responses before then.
Feel free to pass this link on to other people you feel might be interested in participating.
The survey is here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H7LVTV6
Thanks for your help!
-Adam
I love my city.
I was born and raised here, and although I’ve had a few experiments in living elsewhere, this is where I am happiest. Don’t ask me to justify- that’s simply the way I am.
Now, for all of its wonders and excitements, I am afraid there is one thing about Miami that I am left feeling a little hollow about:
This town is a little too predictable.
Most people strive to find a stable and predictable state of living, and I can appreciate that. I am a settler. I build a nest and inhabit the hell out of it. Ask anyone who knows me about the degree to which I collect stuff. Detritus. Clutter. This is how I fill a space with a sense of stability and settlement.
And Miami is conducive to that. No matter what the political, social, or cultural happenings are in town, or the issues of the day may be, there’s a certain definitive system to which Miami functions that makes even the most spontaneous upheavals a little functionally consistent. Be it a hurricane or an invasion of gargantuan snails initially smuggled into town for religious rituals– most Miamians are concerned, or attentive, or whatever- but, there is also a cultural shrug that comes with our town that makes the locals seem to statically respond by saying that’s how Miami is. It’s Miami time. Life in Miami. And so forth.
Here’s my point:
Miami needs a mystery.
Maybe it has one- hopefully several. But from my couch, in my part of town, Miami has local flair, cultural draws, and is a continually exciting place to live in, but there’s little in the way of compelling treasures in the form of capers and local mysteries.
Take an example from Philadelphia:
Have you heard of the “Toynbee Tiles”?
Well, a nifty documentary came out of Philadelphia called “Resurrect Dead”, and it captured the essence of exactly what I’d love to see: a true, local mystery.
Not an urban legend or a Skunk Ape or anything of the sort. A solid, laid on the concrete, investigative adventure waiting to happen.
I’d heard of the Toynbee Tiles several years ago, since I am a geek for the paranormal and obscure, but I never thought the story behind them would go in the direction this film achieved. My respect and admiration to Justin Duerr, Jon Foy, and company for pulling off an amazing experience in both regional identity and character study!
And that’s what I’m wondering about.
What kind of local enigma is baffling and worthy of exploration.
And if you are not from Miami, my challenge to you is to find a mystery from your own town. What kind of brain-popping trick of esoteric regionalism comes from your place in the world? Any good capers to inspire the rest of us?
I asked the same question on Reddit, and am hoping to generate some discussion there.
In the meantime, what can you only tell me a little about from the place you call home? What would you like to learn more about it?
@and_ampersand 