EASTERN MICHIGAN SUFFERS TOUGH LOSS TO TOLEDO BUT 4-2 EAGLES ARE MUCH IMPROVED.

Eastern Michigan University suffered a tough loss against the University of Toledo yesterday afternoon at Rynearson stadium here in Ypsilanti, but it is clear that EMU football is back! Eastern Michigan is a very respectable 4-2 this year and even had one top 25 vote last week in a NCAA poll. This is fantastic news for a football program that has struggled over the past decade.

Since the opening of the football season EMU has knocked off Mississippi Valley State, UNC Charlotte, Wyoming, and Bowling Green. This has been an incredible start to the season for not only the EMU football program and students, but for proud EMU alumni like myself.

Stay tuned to EMU football and bring on Ohio University! Go Eagles!

Jeff Brown
Editor/Publisher
Purple Walrus Press

Rynearson Stadium Eastern Michigan University. Photo Purple Walrus Press.

PWP TOP 5 GREATEST WOOL SWEATER AND PATCHOULI ROCK/FOLK BANDS OF ALL-TIME!

Colder weather is right around the corner and we have officially entered the fall season. Halloween is soon upon us as is Thanksgiving. The autumn season, a nip in the air, and hot apple cider never fail to put me into a, you guessed it, wool sweater and patchouli rock/folk band state of mind! Ok, I don't personally use patchouli. But anyway, here it is, the top 5 wool sweater and patchouli bands of ALL-TIME!

5. Simon and Garfunkle: Oh, yeah. Just listening to this duo makes me feel smarter. Break out the argyle sweaters and slap on the groups 1967 album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Tyme. After listening to this LP stroll across the nearest college campus looking for the "Candidates Debate."

4.The Byrds: Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, Eight Miles High, and Turn, Turn, Turn. Oh baby, The Byrds make me feel smart AND groovy!

3. Steeleye Span: This English folk revival rock band formed in 1969 and continue to carry on the, what I call, wool sweater rock tradition. Their spooky song Alison Gros places this band securly in the PWP top 5 wool sweater band bracket. Check this lyric out:

Alison Gros she must be
The ugliest witch in the North country.

Well, you really have to hear the song to get the whole effect.

2. Jethro Tull: Oh, I have loved this band for decades. I saw them for the first time in 1981 when I was in college. Ooh, dating myself! Ian Anderson and band mates continue to put the boogie in Medieval Elizabethan boogie. Front man and flute player Ian Anderson also speaks like a university English Literature professor! He even quotes Scottish poet Robert Burns in concert! Very wool sweatery.

And now for the NO.1 greatest wool sweater and patchouli band of ALL-TIME!

 Fairport Convention: This group epitomizes British folk rock, Medieval and Renaissance music. Their hugely influential album titled Liege & Life not only launched electric folk music, but is guaranteed to make you run upstairs and pull on your favorite old natty wool sweater and walk around in the cool autumn breeze!

Jeff Brown
Editor/Publisher
Purple Walrus Press.

the band Fairport Convention. Photo credit peelwikia.com

ARMED CLOWN ROBBERY REPORTED AT WALGREENS IN BROWNSTOWN TWP. MIXED OPNS FROM PWP YPSI READERS REGARDING CREEPY CLOWNS.

Okay, this clown schtick is getting out of hand. On Monday I wrote an article addressing the creepiness of the recent sightings of this creepy clown issue. In the PWP article I also reported on Muskegon public schools going into soft lockdown after a threat was made on social media by a creepy clown. Well, local news station Local 4 Detroit has just reported that a clown armed with a pistol robbed a Walgreens in Brownstown TWP Tuesday night around 9;30 pm. According to clickondetroit local 4 News the armed clown robbery took place at a Walgreens located on Telegraph Road.

According Local 4 News the clown walked into the store with a gun and robbed the clerk. The clown then fled the scene in an SUV.

Here in Ypsilanti Purple Walrus Press has received mixed feedback regarding this recent issue with creepy clowns. While several readers have expressed anger and agitation toward this clown craze, others have seen it nothing more than silliness. I will say that readers who haven't taken the creepy clown shenanigans particularly seriously commented before more recent reports of violent and aberrant  behavior by clowns.

Brownstown TWP is located 26 miles from Ypsilanti. Gee, what would Bozo the clown say?

Jeff Brown
Editor/Publisher
PWP

CREEPY CLOWN SIGHTINGS ARE, WELL, CREEPY! SURE DON'T WANT TO SEE THE THINGS AROUND YPSILANTI!

Last week there was a report of, um, a creepy clown around Big Rapids, Michigan Up North. Yikes! TV station 10 Big Rapids News reported that a person dressed as a clown was seen prowling through a Big Rapids neighborhood. So how far away are we here in Ypsilanti from Big Rapids? Not far enough away for me. Geez! According to a Big Rapids police report a clown dressed in blue costume with reddish hair, "Just stood there eerily looking at people across the street, before running off into the trees behind a house." This statement was printed in mlive 4 days ago. A clown just standing there looking at people eerily and then running into the woods?! Holy heck, that's super scary!

But wait, there's more!Just today, Muskegon, MI schools went into a soft lockdown after, get this, a threat was made by a CREEPY CLOWN! According to Muskegon TV station WZZM 13 there were a least two schools that went into soft lockdown today (Monday)  due to a creepy clown message that was posted on social media.

Apparently, there have been many reports of creepy clown sightings throughout the United States in recent weeks. Yikes and double yikes! I knew I never liked clowns, and for good reason! They're just creepy!

All I can say is I sure hope no creepy clowns pop up in our Ypsilanti. But if they do, we'll just send them packing for Ann Arbor! Oh, just kidding Ann Arbor.

Now, keep an eye out for those creepy clowns, Ypsi!

Jeff Brown
Publisher/Editor
Purple Walrus Press.

LONG GUN / SHOTS FIRED / FRIGHTENING ROBBERY IN YPSILANTI TWP

On Friday, September 30, a man walked into the Chase Bank on Whittaker Road  in Ypsilanti TWP wielding a long gun with a scope and demanded money. According to Derrick Jackson, sheriff's office community engagement director, the robber fired shots in the bank although no one was injured. This according to an article in mlive Friday. The robber fled and his whereabouts are unknown.

All was quiet this morning at the scene of the crime at Chase Bank when I was over there. Customers were using the drive through at the bank.

I am certainly no gun expert, but it seemed odd that the robber used a long gun with a scope. One thing for sure is that this must have been one horrifying event for bank employees and customers. Hopefully, police will apprehend this individual soon.

Jeff Brown'
Editor/Publisher
Purple Walrus Press.

Chase Bank on Whittaker Road in Ypsilanti TWP. Photo Purple Walrus Press.