21 Comments
User's avatar
Ko Melina's avatar

WOW

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Always one of my fave responses. I cried at least once when I wrote that one.

Expand full comment
Ko Melina's avatar

I cried when I read it. Damn Jimmy!

Expand full comment
Michelle Miletic's avatar

Wow on so many levels!!! Thank you. I need to reread it. So intense deep and powerful with multiple levels

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks, Michelle. I do think I covered a talking point or two.

Expand full comment
Luke's avatar

Good one, Jimmy. It took me over.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

I don't live in that neighborhood anymore, but I still think about it often. I'm very stoked you like that one. I've been struggling with the screenplay version for months.

Expand full comment
Mary's avatar

Son of a bitch.

Expand full comment
Brian Quinn's avatar

Disparage the man, not his mother. Say ahole instead please.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Just a figure of speech. I don't take offense to anything, really.

Expand full comment
Mary's avatar

I'd have to work pretty hard to offend Jimmy. As he said, it's just a figure of speech.

Expand full comment
Jim Latham's avatar

kick ass. love it.

Expand full comment
V Moire's avatar

I’m so glad you linked this in the Cravings post . I hadn’t read it before. It was profound, brilliant, touching, heartbreaking. There aren’t proper superlatives. I am endlessly blown away by your talent. The ill-advised love you have, as do I, for our city, as it was and as it is becoming, personified in the character of Stormy. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, your work is more than what we deserve.

Expand full comment
Brian Quinn's avatar

Damn Jimmy. I've only know you for 20 years, but you lived a lifetime before that. Great stories. I just subscribed and I feel like I've been missing something now. Got to go. Time to binge on the archives. Peace!

Expand full comment
Toxic Terry's avatar

After reading this I’m subscribing to you Friday. Remind me Jimi

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

That would be great. And if you tell your friends the writing is good, that would be great too.

Expand full comment
Toxic Terry's avatar

My wife is reading it now. Will tell all my friends about it!

Expand full comment
Randy's avatar

You got me this time. Sorry it took so long.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

Glad you like it. For real. I've been thinking about this one a lot lately

Expand full comment
Sean Thomas McDonnell's avatar

Jesus, Jimmy. This was fuckin GOOD.

Expand full comment
Jimmy Doom's avatar

This is my love letter to an evolving Detroit. I've been here all my life. I really worked in bars like that and eat in those burger places and buy water and candy for the drug addicted prostitutes whose Guatemalan pimps just want them to put another dick in their mouth. The story is fiction , but it's from a very real world. Stoked that you love it.

Expand full comment