My dad is a three-time Indy 500 competitor, whose career off-track was managing operations of a heavy crane and rigging service (even owned a tower crane for a time!), who has decades of experience operating just about every kind of heavy equipment, and who—just for fun in his retirement—drove motorcoaches all over…

*Wishes for a remake of Dresden Files series*

Latecomer here. Surprised -but pleasantly- that this odd little sub-genre would be acknowledged anywhere on the interwebs not populated by little old knitting grandmas. It seems I’m not alone in having discovered The Cat Who... books in grade-school. They’ve held a warm spot in my heart ever since, and I have a couple…

Disagree on crowding potatoes into a pan...my mom made the best fried potatoes in the universe, McD’s hash browns included (and I LOVE me some McD’s hash browns. Like, enough to have a fairly embarrassing drive-thru story from the time they tried to give me FRIES with my Bacon, Egg, and Cheese biscuit...!!!). But I…

The fucking EcoSport is a godforsaken abomination of a vehicle if I’ve ever seen one. This past Fall I had the misfortune of driving one for an entire week after a 55 mph encounter with an extra-large trash panda. Those assholes at the dealership acted like they were doing me a fucking favor when they handed over the…

All I have to say here is...NO SHIT! Why is this a surprise? Not everyone wants to drive a disposable hatch/alleged SUV. Lack of safety aside, they are garbage, from either Ford or GM. Ask any mechanic that works on them.

I became the proud owner of a 1999 Forrester S in the late fall of 2001. The approaching winter meant that my days roaring around in a 1969 Firebird 400 were numbered, and I needed another set of wheels quick. Enter the Subie: all black with the little cattle guard on the front. Damn I loved that car. Her trademark…

Amen, brother!! I had this precise thought process years ago while shopping for a family truckster right before the birth of my second child. The minivan - yes I’ll admit it, I drove one and I liked it - had a video player, a 5-disc dvd changer, wireless headphones, stow and go, etc. but the feature that made this othe…

The author Deborah Harkness is also a history scholar, and in 1994 she did in fact locate a missing work, one of five books attributed to John Dee, called The Book of Soyga (also Sloane MS 8 or Aldaraia) in the Bodelian Library at Cambridge University. Yes, this series does feature vampires, which is clearly low…