Can I have Urban Decay for $1000 Alex?

This is Detroit in a nutshell. Once proud but barely supporting itself now and no one is going to help it out. Certainly not the assclown mayor in there now and who knows about the next guy. Its hard to believe that there are whole blocks of houses that look exactly like this all over the city. Most people would have killed to live in a house like this in the 60's and now you couldn't pay someone enough to try and restore it. The problem is that it took 25+ years for Detroit to turn to shit and its going to take twice that to get it back out. I don't think theres anyone up to that challenge.

Lovely

Today I didn't even have to leave my chair to get this picture. Genius called me to say that the building we work in had a few police cars outside and a bunch of windows were broken. I got a knot in my stomach because I thought they meant car windows...and god knows mine has been broken into enough. So I fired up the webpage to view all of our security cameras (comes in handy for other things too :P). Nothing in the parking lots...good deal. So I clicked around till I saw this. I blurred out the surrounding scenery because you never know who's reading this and I don't need to get fired for something I probably haven't even said yet. So deal with it. Hell...most everyone who reads this knows where it is anyway...but you can't be too careful with all the crazies out there. I'm not exactly a "needs extra attention" kinda guy

Even the Little Cars Can't Escape

Genius said it best today before I took the picture "Man..even the matchbox cars in Detroit are ghetto"

A Room with a View....

I drive past this every day. The sad thing is that I could take 50 pictures like this just on my drive in. Usually theres a truck here...stealing the bricks that collapsed into the middle. At least that means they are fixing a building somewhere else, I hope. The building next door to this one is priceless too...but there are people living/working in that one. I'll see if I can get a picture. Sorry about the pic being at an angle...its really hard to take a picture while trying to dodge the people who wander aimlessly in the middle of the street. There's 3 liquor stores within a few hundred yards of this building so theres always people everywhere...

Now that's what I call art

I was utterly speechless when I saw this today.
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This is the hands-down most spectacular thing I have seen in a long time for many reasons.

1. Its a POS Geo Metro

2. The top is cut off and made into a permanant convertible

3. The silhouette of the naked woman is made out of glued on mirror tiles

4. The words "Doggy Style" are painted on with what looks like white house paint

5. The hood is spray painted with flat black paint

6. Hubcaps were missing/stolen

Now for my professional analysis. The guy who owns this amazing vehicle is NOT getting any "Doggy Style" (or any other) action. If he is getting it, it's with a woman who is so huge...she wouldn't fit in his tiny ass car. Hmmmm..maybe thats the reason he cut the roof off...so she could ride around in the car with him. Who knows.