Ahh, the ever-important “About” page. Just what the hell is it all about anyway (Alfie)? Good question. Humor me for a moment and I’ll try and ‘splain.
The short of it is, I get around. And I don’t mean in that slutty and emotionally hardened middle school-aged girl trading hand jobs for acceptance to compensate for the gaping void in her psyche created by unsuitable role models and an unfortunate socio-economic lot in life kinda’ way either. No, I mean I geographically get around. And as a result, I come across a lot of Weird Little Shit, and I just thought I’d share. You know, because I’m a giver.
Mostly it’s a function of my job. The getting around part, that is. (The seeing weird little shit part is really just a function of my near-sightedness). What do I do that affords me the opportunity to scrutinize the metro-Detroit area in such detail, you ask? Well, it’s really what I don’t do. I don’t punch a clock too much anymore. And I don’t envision a scenario where I’ll be clamoring around on the corporate ladder much anymore either. Basically I’m a poster child for the new economy, which means I work for my soul and my healthcare benefits (and when the two conflict, I choose healthcare benefits, because I’m not brainless, but I may indeed prove to be soulless).
At the moment, I’m an aging controller, disenfranchised college instructor, reluctant land surveyor, aspiring memoirist, serial entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed, bon vivant of pedestrian pleasures. I may not have a particularly compelling perspective, but it is a perspective. And in the age where knocked up teens, illiterate trailer trash and silicone enhanced housewives all get their own reality show, I might as well tout my own self importance as well.
If you are easily offended, might I suggest another blog (…and another country…and another era). However, if you are interested in seeing a whole different side of metro-Detroit, picking up a few local dining recommendations and being clubbed upside the head with sarcasm, parenthetical afterthoughts and an odd combination of self-deprecating self-righteousness, stick around. It don’t cost nuthin.’
-m. karvinen
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