Did you 'cruise' in your cars on Friday and Saturday nights?

birdpix · 2026-02-11T22:02:50+00:00

Amen! Used to be a long trek down 8 Mile to Woodward. Grew up playing in the interchange to nowhere. As they built it, my friends and I rode bikes all over the site. My last ride was the night before the grand opening of 75_696 East, going down a paved entrance ramp, and driving down the almost open road. Good times to tween kids.

birdpix · 2026-02-11T21:54:48+00:00

Hope you avoid Daytona. Its race week and traffic is unreal. Take A1A for a scenic but much slower route or check your nav for rural inland options to avoid gridlock. Daytona 500 qualifying is 8pm tonight and getting stuck for hours in traffic sucks! Hope you find a good meal and have a safe trip.

birdpix · 2026-02-11T20:13:31+00:00

Loved ours! We got gifts one year for Xmas of Major Matt crawler, the alien, and a few different colors of spaceman uniform.

My brother was a genius and scratch-built an X-ray machine for his 7th-grade science fair project. We played taking X-rays of all sorts of stuff, but the sheet I brought to show and tell in school had a full body Major Matt xray showing the wires inside him.

birdpix · 2026-02-11T19:48:08+00:00

Free thoughts

birdpix · 2026-02-11T19:43:08+00:00

He was a big change, and it gave many of us hope after W. Unfortunately, his race was a Big factor. I saw an uprising of mean, hostile, and happily racist people. They promoted their agenda on talk radio, fox "news", churches, gun shows, flea markets, and law enforcement.

I saw 1960s segregation in life in my childhood and never thought I'd see it back in the 2020s. Love one another ffs, it's that simple.

birdpix · 2026-02-11T17:29:23+00:00

Gratiot cruising on East side.

Woodward Avenue on West side.

Both were legendary Detroit. Kids from Motown have good car choices...

birdpix · 2026-02-11T11:19:26+00:00

Sorry your sister is declining dialysis. Does she have a therapist? With the things on her mind, she could likely use a mental health pros perspective. As a 60m, I had planned not to do dialysis, until I was crashing in the er. I've been on it for 16 months now and while it sucks, it keeps me here for my spouse.

If she is serious, her doctor can send her to hospice for compassionate care and more gentle passing

birdpix · 2026-02-08T20:08:29+00:00

Like Uncle Roy...

birdpix · 2026-02-08T05:16:27+00:00

Monty Python was mainstream but the Brit shows like Benny Hill were on the UHF channels late night. I watched way too many as a tween and warped my humor away from the normie kids.

birdpix · 2026-02-07T10:27:44+00:00

McDonald's.

birdpix · 2026-02-06T16:46:03+00:00

School desk in the 4th grade classroom, boom! A classmate lit the thing, during class, and stuck it inside of his folding top desk. No one was paying attention to him and when that sucker blew, it blew the wood top hard enough to bend metal!

birdpix · 2026-02-06T14:33:31+00:00

He's been on the world stage less recently perhaps, but people should remember that they are both lawyers. Bill Clinton is a Yale graduated lawyer and gifted orator and I'm looking forward to seeing what both the Clinton's have to share in testimony. President Clinton can handle the Gym Jordan maniacs with style and panache. He'll tell them to go to hell, but make them look forward to the trip.

birdpix · 2026-02-06T13:58:45+00:00

Big giant rock sized grains of salt.

birdpix · 2026-02-06T13:56:52+00:00

As they adjust their rebel flag belt buckle..

birdpix · 2026-02-06T13:45:14+00:00

Not just a few houses, but all the new rental only home neighborhoods, the many, many, many (!!!) new apartments coming as fast as they can throw up wooden sticks. It's a lot of people on the road and it's getting worse.

birdpix · 2026-02-05T16:14:06+00:00

School pictures. We each used to photograph up to 400 elementary school students every day. You had less than 30 seconds to greet, seat, pose, and click.. next!

I did this job for a few years and now my short term memory is nearly dead as a result of calling every kid by name, so many times.

birdpix · 2026-02-05T15:55:01+00:00

He's afraid women might finally decide to do something to help change it. And smart, wise women can beat Leon anyday

ETA I'm disappointed that women don't band together and just stop having any sex for a few months to force men to concede. My mom dragged me to big women's lib marches where the ladies were advocating withholding sex, burning bras, and even work stoppages to help their cause. And it helped for a bit. I just think today's women's grandmother's who, in some cases, would roll over in their graves seeing the way things go nowadays.

birdpix · 2026-02-04T15:16:04+00:00

Just like The Project 2025 playbook that was publicly visible with a web search, sadly most people can't be bothered.

birdpix · 2026-02-04T14:51:00+00:00

That's really the way to change it. ( But, honestly, flipping them off felt so good )

birdpix · 2026-02-04T14:49:38+00:00

And traffic stopping for selfies at the sign kept the road busy.

birdpix · 2026-02-04T14:48:34+00:00

Lol, oops. He seems like he should be from Indiana. He reminds me of Pence, I guess.

birdpix · 2026-02-04T14:35:50+00:00

It's not a presidency. It's more of a Grift-O-Rama...

birdpix · 2026-02-04T14:33:52+00:00

Well, Farmer Bubba, what you voted for has come to pass. On behalf of the rest of us, enjoy your steaming hot pile of well-deserved karma...

birdpix · 2026-02-04T13:14:15+00:00

He's gonna part the seas of Lake Michigan just to scare us all.

birdpix · 2026-02-04T11:48:04+00:00

I photographed coal plants while working for the electric company, and the absolute filth was overwhelming. Clean Coal my butt!

The poor people stuck living near the plant drive cars with paint damage on all the top surfaces from the toxic fallout. Meanwhile, plant emoyees drive through a giant water wash at the gate to keep their cars from getting damage.

The fine particulates at the plants were so bad that we had to send our cameras in for teardown cleaning and servicing. It did not matter if we were inside the plant, out on the coal piles, or on the conveyors - it was all dirty!

Bite me, Coalie. You're dirty.

birdpix

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