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eNews 2.6.09 Vol. 18

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Reason #53 to ride the Night Move: FREE Vitamin Water!
What's your favorite reason to Night Move?

Well hello there, Night Movers!

Bus here, reporting. Happy Friday! And happy Winter Blast, which is now upon us.

Looking for an excuse to ride the Night Move?

Ride the Night Move downtown to go to the Monroe Street Bar Blast tonight! Feel free to get as drunk as you want on the bar crawl, and take your life saver (the Night Move) back home problem-free!

Be sure to stop by the Night Move Blast booth this weekend, all day today, tomorrow and Sunday bus-shaped cookies, high-fives, and the latest issue of Ambassador magazine. AND enter our karaoke contest to win a FREE night at the MotorCity Casino Hotel, courtesy of Ambassador, MotorCity, and yours truly. Check out this video for an example of how not to win.

Please note: the Night Move won't be running its regular route on Saturday night in order to provide FREE transportation between stops on the Bar Blast pub crawl.

Upcoming Culinary Road Trips from the Night Move and Taste-full Tours: February 10 is the Grocery Tour, where you'll learn how to shop like the master chef experts; and February 14 is the Pizza & Wine Lovers' Tour (for food you'll fall in love with... Sorry, the Bus has no corn filter -- see below). Book now or miss some of the chances of a lifetime. Seriously. Sign up on the Upcoming Tours page of their website.

If you missed the Chinese New Year celebration at Mon Jin Lau last week, worry not. Shanghai Wednesdays are every week, so be sure to make your appearance next week, and from now on. See you there!

If you're not already our Facebook fan, now's your chance to keep in touch and show your bus love!
And follow the Night Move on Twitter! We're just all over the social media world, aren't we? We're new age, high tech and... nerds -- don't judge us.


Now, the moment that will change your life: Click this button for hours of cornified fun:
(Courtesy of cornify.com.)

Kisses,
The Bus

Taste-full Tours in Metromix!

Check out the Night Move and Taste-full Tours in Metromix!

Culinary road trips for your eating, drinking and learning delight.

eNews 1.30.09 Vol 17

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Reason #11 to ride the Night Move:You can take the People Mover for FREE to Taste Pizzabar in Times Square! Ask your driver for details. Mm, pizza...
What’s your favorite reason to Night Move?

TGIF*, Night Movers!

Bus here, signing in. Happy Friday!

Looking for an excuse to ride the Night Move?

Take a hint from Matt, our "Year of Free Bus" winner, and ride the Night Move down to the Detroit Roller Derby, to watch those roller girls kill St. Louis at the Masonic. If you've never gone, now is certainly the time do it. Especially since you won't need a ride -- the Night Move's got you covered.

Get excited. Winter Blast is almost here! It’s February 6-8, from 11am to 9pm. Come check out the Night Move booth for bus-shaped cookies, high-fives, and the latest issue of Ambassador magazine. AND enter our karaoke contest to win a FREE night at the MotorCity Casino Hotel, courtesy of Ambassador, MotorCity, and yours truly. Guess what song you'll have to sing to win? If you can't guess it, then we can't be friends. Just kidding, I still like you. While you're Blasting, be sure to check out Bar Blast Friday and Saturday nights from 9pm to 2am. Please note: the Night Move won’t be running its regular route those nights in order to provide FREE transportation between stops on the Bar Blast pub crawl.

If you haven't booked a spot on this weekend's Taste-full Tours "Culinary Road Trip," aboard the Night Move, then you're out of luck, kiddos. The BBQ and Beer Tour is SOLD OUT. You and your sweetheart should book in advance for the Valentine's Tour on February 14, or you could hit up the Grocery Tour on February 10. Check out Ese's write-up on Metromix.com for info, and then sign up on the Upcoming Tours page of their website. Don't miss out. Seriously.

A couple more ins, outs, ups, and downs, per usual:

• Looking for more reasons to ride the bus? Go to MotorCityBlog for Detroit’s own anti-blog, always up to date on stuff you definitely need to know. And check out After 5 Detroit and Metromix for other fantastic excuses to ride the Night Move.


• As always, flash your Night Move ticket to take advantage of this stuff:
  
  • $2 off of well drinks at Mosaic
    on Fridays
  
  
  • No cover at Fifth
    Avenue, plus Night Move drink specials
  
  
  • 20% off your fare in a Michigan Green
    Cab
  
  
  • And remember: if you work at Moosejaw, Quicken, Google or ePrize, use your coupon code for a discount. Work somewhere else, but want your company to get a discount? Let us know, and we’ll work something out.

*Remember TGIF from when we were young and innocent? Full House, Boy Meets World and Step by Step all in one night?! Those were the days...

Good talk. See you out there!

Kisses,
The Bus

Free treats. Cooking tips. Culinary road trips.

Listen up folks. We have a very awesome announcement to make. The Night Move is pairing up with a company called Taste-full Tours to lead what they term, “Culinary Road Trips.” If you haven’t heard about these, prepare yourself to get excited. They’re bus tours (on the world’s greatest biodiesel-run shuttle bus, of course) run by culinary professionals. Sign up on the Upcoming Tours page of their website to check out some chefs’ little secrets -- off-the-beaten-path bakeries, homemade chocolate shops, local brewpubs and authentic international markets. You’ll get to rub elbows with shop owners, taste their specialties, and best of all, learn something. (And since the more you know, the more you grow, this is pretty much the greatest opportunity ever.)

How big is your foot?

Or rather, how big is the footprint you're leaving?

Take the quiz on ecofoot.org to see what kind of a mess you're making of our planet, and for suggestions on how to fix it.

Here's a tip from your friends at the Night Move:

Increase your public transit ridership by riding the Night Move. Your public transportation options are limited in this area, but riding the Night Move is one way to do your part for the environment. Not only are you reducing the number of individual carbon-emitting vehicles on the road, but the Night Move runs on biodiesel AND we've neutralized its carbon footprint on Carbonfund.org.

Love the Earth? Then do your part to keep it lovable.

Speaking of transportation...

Check out this Craigslist post from the "Best Of" list. It's been a Night Move fave since we first came across it in August. Copied and pasted below:

Bike for sale

What kind of bike? I don't know, I'm not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This bike is made out of metal and kick ass spokes. The back reflector was taken off, but if you think that deters me from riding at night, you're way wrong. I practiced ninja training in Japan's mount Fuji for 5 years and the first rule they teach about ninja biking is that back reflectors let the enemy know where you are. Not having a rear reflector is like saying "FUCK YOU CAR, JUST TRY AND FIND ME".

The bike says Giant on the side because it's referring to my junk, but rest assured even if you have tiny junk that Giant advertisement is going to remain right where it is. I bought this bike for 300 dollars from a retired mercenary that fought in both World War 1 and World War 2 and had his right arm bitten off by a shark in the Phillipines while stationed there as a shark handler. When he sold it to me I had to arm wrestle him for the honor to buy it. I broke his arm in 7 places when I did. He was so impressed with me he offered me to be his son but I thought that was sissy shit so I said no way.

The bike has some rusted screws, but that just shows how much of a bad ass you are. Everyone knows rusted screws on a bike means that you probably drove it underwater and that's bad ass in itself. Those screws can be replaced with shiny new ones, but if you're going to go to that trouble why not just punch yourself in the balls since you're probably a dickless lizard who doesn't like to look intimidating.

The bike is for men because the seat is flat or some shit and not shaped like a dildo. If you like flat seated bikes you're going to love this thing because it doesn't try to penetrate your ass or anything.

I've topped out at 75 miles per hour on this uphill but if you're just a regular man you'll probably top it out at 10 miles per hour. This thing is listed as a street bike which is man-code for bike tank. The bike has 7 speeds in total:

Gear 1 - Sissy Gear
Gear 2 - Less Sissy Gear
Gear 3 - Least Sissy Gear
Gear 4 - Boy Gear
Gear 5 - Pre-teen Boy Gear
Gear 6 - Manly Gear
Gear 7 - Big Muscles Gear

I only like gear 6 and 7 to be honest.

Additionally, this tool of all immense men comes with a gigantic lock to keep it secure. The lock is the size of a bull's testicles and tells people you don't fuck around with locking up your bike tank. It tells would-be-thieves "Hey asshole, touch this bike and I'll appear from the bushes ready to club you with a two-by-four".

Bike is for 150 OBO (and don't give me no panzy prices)