To my mind a Phoenix on a rich/famous actor implies one thing - he now thinks he belongs to the ranks of the immortals, the illumined ones. the phoenix is not a dragon but is the one that rises from the ashes and is reborn. this implies immortality and is a sign among those who know that the person is aware, and has…

In 1980 when I was in the Navy in San Diego (at the ASW base) I used to ride my Schwinn beach cruiser to Ocean Beach after work with my board on the side). This aint my bike because we didn’t have cameras permanently attached to our hands back in the day, but it looked like this.

11) Be seen. Day-Freaking-Glo and not matte black.

I read one comment from a woman who said she was sad that her cool car was a poison delivery system. I think virtually everyone else does not give even a tiny shit what they are putting into the air their kids breathe as long as their car is cool and fun and they have the satisfaction of good mpg. Most people who even…

“Tolerated”. This is exactly the problem. The guys who made this happen as a matter of policy are ducking responsibility, lying, and using passive terms. VW is still full of shit with this nonsense, and there is no reason whatsoever to trust them. “Tolerate” implies they didn’t cause that shit to happen on purpose…

Yeah.I hate to be “me too” but the above is true. I have been a pirate street racer since the ‘70’s and have always had a feeling that riding was wicked dangerous. But now that I am ....wiser....and tend to ride more conservatively I find the risk/stress factor seems to be much lower. Still, riders are at the mercy of…

I wonder what percent of rally cars DNF. must be high. I learned this with racing early: FINISH!

anything that facilitates breaking those tiny annoying rules that seem to infest our lives like mosquitoes, always around, always bothering people, always just out of SWAT range....

rightly so. fuck those guys. seriously. I really, really like the idea of suspending monthly payments on affected cars. you have to aim the penalties where they will actually work, and the only place a corporate entity is susceptible to argument is in the wallet. unless you hit them HARD in the money belt, they will…

fold sheets? not.

Oh, I forgot the best part. I got a ticket for "Failure to sound an audible warning when passing." No shit. He cited me for that. One of the witnesses said that the cop was mad at me, mostly because I had caused the driver distress. She was crying becuse she thought she had killed me since I didn't get up very fast. I…

What happened: Traffic was really slow. A long line of cars was going 35 in a 45 and it looked to be the fault of the car in front of the line. The driver was simply going 10 under the limit. So I decided to pass. All of them. It was a passing zone, a long straight piece of 2-lane highway in bright sunshine. As I…

they are going to do what is possible and cheap. they will probably reflash the ECu and downgrade your mileage and performance. Nothing else is physically possible without a complex/expensive mechanical retrofit of a urea system. don’t wait for unicorns to shit lemon cupcakes. to my mind the states should be taking…

VW - when the crime is lying, why does anyone attend briefings or publish corporate propaganda materials? Why should we believe ANYTHING AT ALL that VW says? From now on everything must be independently verified - mpg, exhaust, tech specs, investment information, everything. Forever.

I own an ell-electric car so I am fully qualified to make this public service announcement:

someone is gonna have to go rig the jack. probably it uses removable lifeline stanchions like a submarine.

with a class of 3, this thing already sounds like Surface Seawolf. be prepared for supplier bankruptcies, uber expensive repair parts (if you can find them), and one of them always at the pier. or not. sometimes history does not repeat. sometimes.

how to make a steel frame look like an aluminum frame: fools the eye.

do not be afraid of amanita. like most things (and virtually all of your “food”) it is all about safe preparation. pick them fresh. be sure what you are picking (easy with amanita). slice them up. bake them at 210f +-10 until the chunks are crispy and bone dry. powder the dried chunks in a coffee grinder. mix with…

weird?