March 25, 2025, Union Bay

Remember this, you proud men of action! You are nothing but the unconscious agents of the men of thought, who often, in their humble silence, have prescribed exactly the course your actions can but follow. Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau.

— Heinrich Heine, "Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland" (On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany)

It's gone...

Considering moving to the UP? Don't. Did you know that they make rap music up there? And have you seen the lyrics from this typical "song"?

Mines took their breath, streets take mine,
Iron in the rock, blood on the pine.
Fifty-two fell, my set’s droppin’ too,
Snowdrifts rise where the slain accrue.

...

Winter’s fist slams, buryin the dead,
Red stains the white where my homie bled.

These Yoopers are not civilized people.

Avoid them at all costs.

If a carpenter were provided with all his tools and plenty of wood but never did any carpentry, could he be said to benefit from their possession?

From a hotel in California.

The Daily Poor used its weather manipulating technology to make this happen

I'm going to hope that this is joke

Northern LP footage is brutal.

Plywood Road in Gaylord

"Sweet; I'll be living in a field before too long."