Gridlock

<p>There's a 200-mile long traffic jam on I-94 and people are going to be stuck there for days. Maybe weeks. Told in striking kinetic flashes Brett Biebel's <em>Gridlock </em>explores the event its origins in American political athletic and romantic institutions and its impact on all the individual lives that go on in its shadow. Four roommates order a Japanese sex robot. A man designs a book review algorithm. Sentient pitching machines debate life death and violence and bags of deli ham fly across trashy grocery store parking lots as the cars idle. Day in and day out. Their gears grinding down to nothing or well. Maybe it's something after all.</p>