Don't bother with the non-essential places

I like to think that the person who wrote this one is an artist at heart. I also think they couldn't find a "the" to go between "only" and "essential". But maybe that's the art of it...

Sounds like a theme park in hell... Or the Bronx

Not really sure what to make of this one, but it was fun to see someone use the ampersand.

Sage Advice

I'd be lying if I said I didn't crack up when I came out to see this one. I'd also be lying if I said I didn't fully expect this to be the kind of thing I constantly came out to.

Umm...

Sometimes, people just get random, and it comes out interesting. In other news, I've been searching iTunes for some Chocolate Music, and all it came up with is Parliment.

The first line of an epic tale

This is, like, poetic and stuff! You'd think someone was writing poetry on my car.

A Question for the Ages...

Ah, blasphemy. It makes for good poetry. (captured at EB Games near my house)

I was bored, had $50 to spend on magnets, and a free afternoon. This is what I came up with:

And on my very first day, not 10 minutes after putting all the magnets on and walking into the Thai Food place to pick up my order, I had my first composition (which can be seen above, but I took all the pics at once, so pretend it's not in the first two and clap wildly for this one):


It's a gigantic simile with a preposition in the middle. I love it.

About Automotivetry

So this is where I tell you what this is all about whatnot. But really, just looking through a few pictures here should give you plenty of context about what's going on here. So I suppose this section is quite unnecessary, isn't it?

Although, I suppose I could tell you how it all came about... Yes, that seems like it'd be appropriate here, thus justifying having an "about" section.

So I have this friend, Lori. Lori is a poet. Not only is Lori a poet, she is quite an exceptional one. She's one of those people that personifies the description of a free spirit. She's a flower child through and through, and I love everything there is to love about a person, because she's wholly good and a benefit to the human race.

Anyway, Lori used to drive this adorable little Mini Cooper car, and one day, while working on a client site together on a project, she had about two armloads of stuff to carry to her car, but only one set of arms. So, being the chivalrous young man my mother would be proud that I have become, I helped her carry some goods to her car. She popped the back hatch of her car, and I saw a ton of little magnetic poetry pieces laying all over the place.

I couldn't help but laugh. "Lori," I said, "You're the only person I know who could literally haul poetry around in the trunk of her car." We shared a laugh, and then off the cuff, I followed up with "You should place it all over your car and let people say things with it."

Of course, this being the world o' web 2.0 and whatever, we both shot glances at one another and decided this NEEDED to be a thing. A real thing, with pictures and a website and whatever. So I registered the name Automotivetry.com, bought a bunch of magnetic poetry, and ran around town for like six months experimenting with the idea - mostly to see if people would actually participate, or if they'd just smirk and keep going.

Well, as it turns out, there is a healthy amount of both that takes place. Enough people participate that I am perpetually curious when I return to my truck everywhere I drive. Enough people pass right by and smirk, pausing to enjoy the fanciful thoughts of people unafraid to slide magnets around on someone else's car. But virtually everyone I observed who came in contact with my truck were at the very least curious. So I figured I'd go ahead with it and see what happens.

So far, it's been a ton of fun.