8.26.2025

Tour of neighborhoods. The one named for a park. The Laurel. Mills College. Oaktoberfest. First Fridays you can see tradesmen, brick makers and sword swallowers. Houses of yellow and blue and white and orange in all shapes like children's building blocks stuck to the sides of hills. All falling toward or away from something. This is what the West Coast looks like when I close my eyes. Color and topography. Cliffside villages first founded by dolphins. College kids are sleeping in their cars in Humboldt, they're saying. What kind of dystopian shittery is this. Over here there's poverty. He's a good boy but if you get in the way of him eating something on the street he'll bite your face off. Obsessed with picnic tables. Where they found him on the reservation they were sources for scraps and safety. I can relate to that. The pizza place, it's pronounced Rat-sos. Do they put cheddar cheese on Detroit style pizza? Not if they want to stay in business. Sounds like a Ratsos move. But I was uneasy and I looked it up later. Apparently it is a thing they do, these Detroit pizzarios, they put cheddar cheese in the mix with the mozzarella. I admit my ignorance before you all. One shouldn't have to go this far to learn these things.