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David and I spent our afternoon/evening/night flying cross country from LA to Detroit so that we could be here for Father’s Day weekend. Since we got in really late last night, I haven’t had the chance to see my parents yet but it sure is nice to be home again. The weather is a big muggy and the temperatures promise to soar but, hey, that’s Michigan in June.

Back in March, rapper Eminem released a song titled Letter to Detroit that was essentially a love letter from Em to his beloved city of Detroit. Today we get to read a new love letter to Detroit, this one penned by Detroit 1-8-7 star James McDaniel. As you may know by now, Detroit 1-8-7 was canceled by ABC so there will be no more episodes of the gritty crime drama set and filmed in Detroit. McDaniel is not a Detroit native, but he fell in love with the city during his time filming the series and was asked by the Detroit Free Press to write a letter of goodbye to the city in the wake of 1-8-7‘s cancellation. Please take some time to read the letter below … it is so moving, so beautiful and so representative of the city that I love with all my heart.

The 2011 class of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced and it is with great pleasure that I pass along the happy news that Detroit rocker Alice Cooper is among this year’s inductees. Cooper‘s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is another feather in the musical history cap of Detroit, MI because Detroit musicians now make up more than 10% of the Rock Hall‘s inductees! Alice Cooper joins other Detroit Rock Hall of Famers Bob Seger, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Aretha Franklin and more as the latest musician from Detroit Rock City to forever become a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Eminem is showing his love for Detroit, yet again, in a new Letter to Detroit that he has penned for his beloved city. To accompany this moving and very powerful ode to the Motor City, Em has also put together a video tribute to the city that features some very well known and loved landmarks as well as the people of Detroit Rock City. It’s a video that I hope each and every one of you takes the time to watch.

Last week we learned the amazing news that the Kickstarter project to fund the erection of a RoboCop statue in Detroit, MI successfully met their fund raising goal (with still time to raise more money) and today we get an update on the project. It turns out that the company that is licensed to create RoboCop replicas has offered to donate the materials for the Detroit RoboCop statue. It is really happening, y’all … very soon, Detroit will get its very own RoboCop statue!

Just six days after fans started raising funds to erect a statue of RoboCop to be put on display in Detroit, MI, over $50,000. has been collected for the project. What started off as a joke has turned into a bona fide campaign for fans to fund a RoboCop statue in the city of Detroit. After it was jokingly suggested that Detroit erect a RoboCop statue, the site Detroit Needs RoboCop went online and started collecting funds for the project. Today we learn that the money has been raised … but will the statue actually be erected?

Eminem never tires of showing his love for Detroit, MI — the hometown that he and I both share. We saw his love for the Motor City most recently in the fantastic Chrysler Super Bowl commercial that was released last Sunday and we see it again today in a new report about Em‘s decision to give an interview to a 14-year old Detroit area student named Annie Reed. Annie wanted to do a feature article on Eminem for her school newspaper The Cavalier Corner, she reached out to his people … and he said yes.

Part of the fun of watching the Super Bowl year after year is the commercials. On Friday, I posted our first look at the brilliant and supercute Volkswagen commercial that features a little Darth Vader trying to use The Force on things all around the house. Yesterday, while watching the Super Bowl at Ollie and Caleb’s I fell MADLY in love with the Chrysler motor company commercial titled Born of Fire that featured Eminem and some of the most iconic buildings in Detroit, MI … my beloved home.

Great news about my beloved Detroit, MI to pass along today … it is being reported that the upcoming sequel film Batman: The Dark Knight Rises will film in Detroit Rock City. As you may know, Chicago, IL was used as Gotham City in the previous Batman films directed by Christopher Nolan but this time around, for the third and final film, the decision has been made to use the grittier Detroit, MI as Gotham City! As I understand it, filming will begin there in May.

Boy, when it snows here in Detroit … it really snows! Overnight Saturday and all day yesterday the snow just fell and fell and fell dumping MOUNDS of the white stuff all over the place. Thankfully my blizzard conditions driving skills kicked in because I needed to make my way to Ann Arbor, MI to see Tracey and my GROWING goddaughter Zakiya:

Yes, folks … little Princess Zakiya is practically a grown QUEEN now. She’s so big, it’s crazy. Because of the bad weather, it took me a long time to get out to see them and I wasn’t able to stay for very long … be we did have a nice time together. After the jump, check out video of Zakiya singing her school’s fight song (adorable) and see a few more photos that I snapped on my last night in Detroit last night …