Markie Post, on the other hand, believable.

This was part of a plot of an Encyclopedia Brown adventure. It’s been 30+ years, but I think there was a disagreement between Bugs Meany and Sally Jenkins over the ownership/who found it.

This list needs more Nick Van Exel.

Count Rogan for one.

The really weird thing about the Ghostride My Volvo video - one of the guys (I think Nate) played on my friend’s Little League team. My friend was the manager in his early 20s and then 6 years later, Nate(?) gets internet famous for Ghostriding a Volvo.

Dan Johnson.

(Ghostride the Volvo!)

I had Killen’s and Franklin on back-to-back days in January. While Killen’s and Gatlin’s have way upped the Houston barbecue game beyond what it was when I lived there, and the best place was Goode Company . . . but it doesn’t come close to Hill Country/Austin.

Houston is a terrible place to visit, and a wonderful place to live. I wasn’t excited about moving to Texas, but when I left, I was sad to leave. Great place to live.

The weather started getting rough

The spellings are archaic. . . does the New Yorker not have a style guide? Do they still use Peking?

Just change all the captions to either “Fuck off” or “Hi, I’d like to add you to my LinkedIn professional network”*

About 20 years ago, in order to promote “road safety” they used to post giant photos of gruesome crashes - decapitations, bodies crushed between truck and road, bodies ejected from cars and through glass, etc. - outside of railway stations. It was worse than Faces of Death. And didn’t work, people still drive terribly…

No, it was a really great move.

“ I’m sure China has an equal number of excellent driving roads like those in Britain,”

I live in Shanghai - and the majority of people around here who own supercars are, indeed, idiots. In the sense that they’re just showing off their money - they didn’t buy Ferraris or Lambos because of the handling or the 0-60 times - they bought them simply because the cars were the most expensive. . . and therefore…

Stanford’s John Elway driving the field - including converting a 4th-and-17 for a go-ahead field goal before Cal 5- lateralled themselves into history with The Play.

It’s been almost 30 years since I first watched Tampopo, and I still apologize to the pork.

X-Treme Mix Vol. 5!

Wait, Walking on Sunshine but not the Katrina and the Waves version, but instead the version from the Herbie movie in the early 2000s?