This just reinforces my infatuation with sporty 205s. The bread-and-goat-cheese econo-models seem way too austere to be fun, but the GTI 1.9 or a rally-tuned version... it is coming up to 25 years, but sadly my income doesn't seem to follow suit.

Performers typcically do the Super Bowl Halftime show for free - it's about the unrivaled publicity and exposure they get. Once you've done the Halftime Show, you're officially top dog. Everyone will talk about you and your market value will skyrocket.

The thing is, back when he still wrote for The X-Files, Gilligan actually wrote many great episodes focusing on female characters that were quite fully formed and pretty much the opposite of what Skyler White represents . I was kind of surprised that it turned out Breaking Bad, for the most part, features no such…

Until 5 years ago, I couldn't really drive a manual. If that's not shameful, I don't know what is.

To me, that generation of DeVilles always looked like they were made from some sort of soft plastic, especially in white. They're so square-but-rounded!

I posted this in groupthink already; then I realized nobody's gonna be there since it's Open Thread time, so here it is again - sue me.

Is it made by Syfy, though? I always thought it was made by that Canadian channel, Showcase, and Syfy just broadcasts it in the US. Showcase also produce Continuum which is sci-fi (time travel, though it's mostly about corporations doing sinister things) - great if you need a reprieve from the juvenility of Lost Girl.

Anyone here ever play the original Rainbow Six games (with the planning phase and the squad selection, not that run-and-gun bs Ubisoft turned it into)? Because Red Storm just did it right with the squad roster in that game.

You gotta give it to the Hawaiians, they know how to attract big spenders, which is probably good bc I don't think there's all that much industry or commerce other than tourism there?

Great performance, but man, Layne Staley already had one foot in the grave by then. I shudder to think what his eyes probably looked like beneath those shades. I actually saw the original broadcast of this, and I remember a couple times he forgot the lyrics and seemed really desperate and sorry about it.

Super cool in theory - a trusted mechanic would have to look it over to see if it's super cool in practice as well. If so, just under 6grand sounds great for this, and if the small imperfections bother you that much, I bet the seller is willing to grant some wiggle room.

Why did that make you shiver?

For that, a Deadspin-style +1

From a purely technical standpoint, yeah. But if you can put the pedal down and be pushed into your seat, stupidly grinning, by the massive torque large-ish modern engines make, isn't that worth a little waste? Smiles per mile are a value, too.

Cars are efficient enough as it is, I think. They only need to be so efficient as to not rip a hole in your paycheck. So long as gas prices here don't climb to European levels, there's no need to forgo horsepower for efficiency's sake. For middle-class folks 20-something mpg is good enough, any more efficiency is just…

Why the hell not? I agree that family sedans don't really need 300hp - I drive a 190E 2.6 and its 160hp are just fine. But, assuming I had the money to buy a new car right now, I'd want value for my money, and horsepower is an undisputed value, always a plus. If a car had considerably less hp than what the competition…

Hell yeah. I always loved how the Soviet military said "wish there was something we could do about those pesky American aircraft carriers" and Soviet engineers (who else) came up with a ground effect plane that was supposed to make 300mph hit-and-run missile attacks.

Rural Florida cops. Prone to power-tripping, bigotry and weird creepy paternalism. Either they act like they're about to shoot you, or like you're one of their kids.

If that NY Post article re: Coopercyclegate isn't embellished, I don't know what it is. "However, Cooper ripped off his shirt near the end of class..." yeah, right. He ripped it off. Because he was so hot also he's rich so he doesn't just take off his shirts any more. No siree. He rips those suckers, because he's got…

I was 19 when Heat was in theaters, and for a long while after that I had this recurring fantasy of sexing it up with DeNiro in a swanky, modernist Hollywood villa overlooking L.A.