Okay----On the subject of waaaay up north in various littlebitty towns in the middle o' nowhere(including the boyhood home o' iwahs' & Aks most notorious serial killer) there is a syndrome thwere that is mistaken for "Progress". Yup. See---most of these towns have been in a form of decline--population of intelligent life-- for at least 50 years. But, due to "progress" in the agerculture 'conomy, namely upsizing operations and perduction methods aka factory farms, and the expansioon of markets to worldwide, there's still a lot o' money being made, in that environment. An the affleunt there are major car jocks--Farmers! Nobody likes to DRIVE as much as Farmers! Yup. Steada going inta town on Satterdy mornin', they get out and DRIVE to urban areas to purchase consumer goods. That's what those HUUUGe "mini" vans are for; thats what those 4-door monster pickups are for! Just DRIVE n eat n shop! Or to the stadium at the state U to sit-n-wath! Yup. Or upta Minnasodda to catch FISH! Yup. One little town has a company that makes boat trailers, another place has a factory making fishing lures. Yup. See?. There's also a new service industry in the many old, small-town abandoned storefronts, owned as mom-n-pop restaurants that serve large cuts of REAL FOOD--MEAT!. Then, they do stupid stuff like cut holes in the sidewalk, and plant high-maintenance shrubs n stuff. A monkey-see, monkey-do, like at the Nicollet Mall grandiose experiment, up in Libberapolis, Mn. See? But yeah---in the name o' I-wah style Proigrees, what they do is take old masonry commercial buildings and either knock 'er down, and clean 'er up n keep 'er mowed nice-n-neat or else cap 'er with farmer tin & tuirn 'er intto a destination to drive-n-eat. Yup. One such city waaaay up there has a 1930's brick building that has been in continuous use all this time. But, what they did to conform to the local notion of progress, which has also gotten artsy-fartsy and gentrified, is first cap 'er withg farmer tin, and then put old weathered barn boards on the street side, to make 'er look artsy-fartsy. They have an old theater, built in 1920's, that started to close, because the small theater chain couldn't justify keeping 'er open. So, the local artsy-fartsy types w/too much farmer money formed up a non-profit charity-status place, in order to keep the place open to show Dizzey mooo-veees and other crap with $4 admission. By the way--don't worry--that buyilding was also capped wiuth farmer tin, a long time ago. Yup. Amay-zeen & Ahhhh-summ, as they say way up there. Yup. I'll post some photos for your information of this dumb syndrome. By the way, the downtown retail anchor is now Dollar Gereneral. Yup. A-may-zeen and Ahhh-summm. Yup. Big thing going on today, is that the old-car jocks are going on a cruise from town to town, visiting the "man caves" of various other old-car jocks. See? No doubt they drive-n-eat. Better get those pipelines opened up! Save American Freedom to Drive-N-Eat! Yup.

