Things are looking up!-- oh, no, I was wrong.

This is a building on the corner of Wisconsin and Broadway in downtown Milwaukee, and there is a national chain sub shop there. A lot of that crappy brown material is cheap facade, added to the building at some point-- why? To make it look crappy brown? Anyway, at some point the brown crap came off or was removed from the support column revealing that the column underneath was decorated with cheerful green and white ceramic tile. You can see the one row of tiles still visible above the brown facade. While the tiles were exposed, I walked by there and was elated, hoping that they were going to remove all of the crap facade and make the building beautiful again, as it must have been at one time. Then a few days later, the brown crap was put back up.

People love the ugly and the uninspiring, I guess. They enjoy being angry and shat upon. If all I wanted to do was make money, I'd open a fluorescently lit slaughter house, play an endless loop of Harley engine noise, instruct the employees to insult customers and beat them with gravel filled socks, and serve feces on moldy white bread. But what would I do with all the money I would make? Buy a condo to store my ugly clothes for three months out of the year?