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# A White Honda with a Crumpled Fender
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/november-7-2022/
- Published: 2022-11-07T21:10:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:49.000Z
- Description: Maybe they’ll wind up on the evening news someday.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Ohio. The moon is full, and the weather remains strangely warm in the Middle West. Meanwhile at a climate conference in Egypt, the head of the United Nations said, “We are on a [highway to climate hell](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/07/climate/cop27-climate-summit/cop27-gets-underway-amid-compounding-crises-of-war-warming-and-economic-instability?smid=url-share&ref=jamesreeves.co) with our foot on the accelerator.” Here in America, we’re bracing for another degrading election between the toothless and vicious. We lost [Mimi Parker](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/remembering-lows-mimi-parker-with-6-essential-tracks/?ref=jamesreeves.co) from Low yesterday.

This afternoon, I idled behind a white Honda with a crumpled fender and a bloody palm print on the trunk. A decal said *HELP* in a horror movie font. What is the psychological profile of someone who decorates their car this way? Perhaps they’re a beloved prankster and a big hit at parties. Maybe they’ll wind up on the evening news someday.

I’ve started reading William Gibson’s *[The Peripheral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FPeripheral?ref=jamesreeves.co)* between bouts of Graeber + Wengrow’s *[Dawn of Everything](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything?ref=jamesreeves.co)*, which is helping me think about fiction—sort of like how [Bertrand Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%5FHistory%5Fof%5FWestern%5FPhilosophy?ref=jamesreeves.co#Catholic%5FPhilosophy)‘s analysis of Catholic Scholasticism reads like the best sci-fi.