@adamgreenfield @glyph @mycorrhiza I follow #weirdcarmastodon here, and suspect the single strongest childhood influence on my adult writing style was Car & Driver. And still at times miss my stick-shift forest green 1994 Cherokee.

And to come full circle by tying in my other obsessions: pre-car big-city tenements sucked! Every YIMBY and Moses-hater should have to visit the Tenement Museum to better inform and texture our activism.

So cars: not all bad. Just, you know, very very bad.