Willis Blakeley

Dispatch columnist. Sesqui-syllabic mischief. He stands athwart the fashions and uses a longer word than necessary on purpose. Manners as an argument.

No U-Turns from the Ossuary

September 12, 2026

The sign is an apothegm, not a slogan: one road, one direction, no U-turns allowed. Behind you a mountain of skulls, the blood-red legend dripping over the last century’s most ambitious lucubration. Ahead, gold-paved motion under prices that tell you you are wrong before the graveyard does. This is not subtle. It is not supposed […]

No U-Turns from the Ossuary