I caught Adventure Wife on Skinemax the other night. It still holds up. 

FWIW, I was like fourteen in 1986, and I knew that a hoagie and a sub sandwich were the same thing. The Count of Monte Whatever hasn’t got an excuse, except stupidity. 

Lighting dork checking in! Your take is exactly right - the store I work at uses the LED ones in some of our fixtures (we have several that are rustic enough that they look best with a squirrel cage bulb), but they look best on a pendant that you’re not looking too closely at. The LED bars are thicker, and it’s…

For real he looks like Al Bundy when Peg wants to fuck.

My folks had a Cavalier wagon similar to that (probably an ‘83 or 4). I didn’t think anything of it till they bought a new Honda Accord in 1987, which was light years ahead of the Chevy in every single way - I could tell that just being a passenger.

I’m not a Jeep guy (old school or otherwise) and I don’t like them either. Aside from the way they look (the proportions are way off), I imagine that the extra weight and length probably doesn’t do the handling and off roading any favors either (stock at least. And I readily admit that I’ve not done a whole lot of…

This theory makes perfect sense, especially in light of that “the wind stops and the television goes off” nonsense. Back in the 80's, I remember a television commercial for, I dunno, ComEd or something, and it featured a Depression era family working on a farm, and the farmer hears a faint squeaking noise. He looks up…

I have two memories about the Star Wars release in 1999. The first is that, even though I loved the original three films, Episode One was kind of boring and didn’t spark the same wonder as Empire did when I first saw it as a kid (by 1999 I was in my mid twenties). It put me completely off the idea of even seeing any…

A coworker’s favorite insult was “You hemorrhoid.” A surprising number of people needed that translated to “pain in the ass”. 

The prhase is “The first pancake is always spoiled”. 

Well, in 1973 you could just go buy a new Travelall.

Honestly, with the sorts of things you’ve accomplished with your Moab projects, this one seems like a slice of the baked good of your choice. 

Similarly, there’s the “black out” game. This is where a car is driving around without it’s lights on at night, and if you flash your lights at it to get them to turn them on, it does a U turn, follows you, then when you stop a bunch of “gangbangers” (ie, nonwhite people) jump out and murder you, as a gang initiation.

Two reasons:

The CRX is really one of those cars that just disappeared over the course of like five years. I had an ‘89 Si, which I got in 1993 for like five grand, having just been traded in on a then new Del Sol. They weren’t super common around here but you would see them often enough - when I got rid of it in 1999 you’d still…

You can put up Christmas lights too, if that’s your thing (I knew a guy with an old Chevrolet bucket truck, and he’d let me use it for just that). 

I don’t know, though. I live in a pretty big suburban area, and while I don’t see the police every few minutes I do know that when I call them for some reason they’re awful quick to get there (I work in a store so we call once in a while for shoplifters, and I had neighbors on one side where emergency services were…

Yeah, I would actually have to wear my glasses, or else run smack into a fence or something. 

Oil. Gasoline is engine broth. One is for dipping, one for mixing. 

My favorite kind of trail mix is the kind that’s all M&Ms.