3.27.2025

Back in a city where you can walk everywhere or hop a bus or creep into the subway if you want it's nice to remember that not every place is a suburb of Detroit.

Not that mobility is a sin or the want of it. The freedom to escape the half acre we were born on is appealing in a lot of ways.

Slapping together thousands of vehicles no one needs, the types what fall apart as soon as we drive them off the lot, and holiday sales and having a dealership's row in every county is also some things some folks are into and I'm not here to shame your kinks.

Michigan could be pristine like those aerial photos of fjords in Norway if you ask me.

Look at these protests. I mean look at 'em. You have this thing designed to solve everything, turns out it's not so great and the guy who claims to have invented it turns around and chops the country to pieces hoping we don't notice. Helluva thing y'know.

And it's none of my business but maybe it's silly to expect a thing on wheels to provide stability. And maybe folk who grow up licking rust don't care to see the difference between a charlatan and a mountebank and to expect them to have the same values as me is downright foolish and maybe they don't think they can afford to care and now we're all stuck in the same pit together and all I know to do is walk until my shoes fall off.

*new guest artist: Bee Kay aka Dr. Brian Kemp PhD aka my old pal Brian. I have plenty to say about this guy and his work but will save it for Friday. He calls this series 'Tetris Decoded'.