Reposted by Zoe Reay-Ellers
Big shoutout to our @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards nominees!
@imbutashadow.bsky.social
@raymondbrunell.bsky.social
@justinkarcher.bsky.social
@travisflatt.bsky.social
and other wonderful people not on this platform :)
![How disgusting the modal motel room must be, if you could really see everything. How many people have sex with strangers they meet at motels. How disgusting the modal gas station restroom must be, if you could really see everything. How many people have sex with strangers they meet in gas station restrooms. What the finer intricacies and social norms of sex work at trucker rest stops entail. Whether someone has written a sort of ethnographical or sociological study thereof. How many people actually pray in the truckers’ chapels they sometimes have at some rest stops. Who pays for the chapels. How many people have sex in those truckers' chapels. Whether there’s a term, like the mile high club, for the people who have had sex in them. What a catchy term for that might be.
What the heck I’m out here looking for, doing all this driving, besides for interesting photo opportunities, and a way to pass the time. Whether and when the next unexpectedly wonderful thing will happen to me. When I will see a coyote again. What the larger theories and symbolism of encountering coyotes is across different belief systems and traditions. What it would feel like to be a coyote. How the way they think must differ from how I do. Why coyotes are alone at times and why they travel in packs at others.
Why I’ve decided to push myself to the periphery, both to the physical periphery—into and across America’s hinterlands—and the social periphery, isolating myself, once such an ardent pack animal, now mostly alone in the cab of my truck. Whether the way I and coyotes think might not differ that much. Whether I’ll make it to the next gas station as I cross the notoriously treacherous, six-mile, six percent grade over Dead Man’s Pass in Oregon. Why I missed the last sign saying “no services for [X] miles” before going over the pass. How much effort, time, and money that will cost me if I run out of gas on this pass.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4x76776hy6eie4upf5out3om/bafkreic3y33skgx2in336o4ose5mxnzrg5g6sijjniribzr2viixipdvua)
