I just found out that Ann Arbor has an excellent Karaoke Box / Karaoke Room called Blue Karaoke:
http://www.bluekaraoke.com/Main.aspx
Damn!
They don’t serve beer – but you can bring your own.
There is also a small box karaoke just south of West Hall On East University – 1/2 block north of Red Hot Lovers on the east side of the street on the second floor of a house – I have never been there -but I just want to remember it.
Also this:
Friends Karaoke
621 Church St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 994-7979‎
I also have not experienced this one either. Just notes for the future.
Of course we have the Sakai Authoring Workshop with Jim and the IMS Quarterly meeting in June – so I am getting prepared for a good time in the evenings – we start at the Ann Arbor Brewing Company and then move to Karaoke – like sweet.

Over the weekend my brother-in-law Ted came up for Easter. He wanted to catch up on a few Jericho episodes he had missed this month because he lives in the country and I have Comcast HD On Demand which replays Jericho (sweet). Ted is the guy who put in my wood floor – he stars in the my hardwood floor video.

So I watched five straight episodes with him – and now I am hooked. Tonight is the finale – which I will miss because I am teaching – Drat!

The plot is really cool. It is a post-apocalyptic USA where things got lawless for a while and then a series of new governments tries to take over and restore order.

It is so cool – there is a kind of bumbling new government/army which is secretly under the control of a company and the army is always running around trying to fix things but never really gaining control. Then company that controls the government is called Jennings and Rall (J and R) Because J & R controlls the government, they are always above the law and doing bad things all the time. The civilians are just mostly confused – they dislike J & R all the time – the army/government claims to be on the side of the people and only interested in order – but the government always lets J & R do whatever they want with no consequences.

So the people go between almost revolting, hiding, and timidly working with the government and J&R. All of the characters from all the groups are always conflicted – they do the right thing some times and the wrong thing at other times – even some J & R employees seem nice and do the right thing at times – but J & R seems evil most of the time.

Lots of cool symbolism around current events. Plenty of action – a neat ensemble cast – and a large enough cast that lots of drama happens – like folks getting killed etc etc.

It all comes to a head tonight in the finale. So don’t tell me how it turns out. And now that I like the show – of course it is cancelled – drat.

And the funny thing is that I think that one of the characters (Major Beck) looks a lot like Michael Korcuska in a flak jacket.