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Forget all the negativity you’ve heard about “The Mistake On the Lake” or the defamatory mythos including a certain river on fire because of the amount of industrial waste polluting it.  It’s all B.S., folks.  Things are great in Cleveland.

My friends Cory and Kathryn pulled out all the stops for me during my stay, Cleveland-style.  We ate satanically decadent grilled cheese sandwiches at Melt, took a tour of the Cleveland Museum of Art (where Cory works as a curator), ate awesome gyros at the West End Market, and raw fish at Sushi Rock (see :22 in the following video: all spurious lies, by the way).

I topped it off with a look at Bruce Springsteen bric-a-brac in a special exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where Kathryn works).  Looking good, Cleveland.

The leaves are changing in Michigan, as my friends Eryn and Ashley demonstrate in the photo below.  Bonus: check out the bengal cat that is currently dedicated to trashing my CS hosts’ house.  Strange animal.

For its size, The University of Michigan does a wonderful job of keeping a relatively cozy feel.  I was shown around campus by my CSer friend Xing, stepping on the university crest in the ground in the center of the quad to accidentally ensure I “failed my next blue book”.  She bought me dinner at her dorm cafeteria before she left me to go study, taking away her leftovers in a tupperware container she had brought along.

For some reason, I arranged to have breakfast with a local Greenpeace faction who were drinking at the same bar we were on my last night in town.  I think they got stoned and forgot to text me.