I had a friend who worked at a music store that sold mostly guitars and amps. Rock musicians…massive egos, heavy drugs, and no money make for an interesting retail experience. One guy started arguing with him about the price of guitar strings, and finally told him to "give me the the white person's discount". My…

I had a Mercedes 220D and a 240D for a few years. The 240D would just go forever and ever. I bought it for $1500, had it for a year, put on a couple of tires and a plastic suspension part on the back, adjusted the valves, put 12K miles on it, and sold it for $1500.

The US carmakers couldn't figure out how to have good running engines and pass smog in the '70s. It was mostly power-robbing smog pumps that ran off of a belt. BTW I grew up in the Inland Empire in the '70s, so if anybody tells me that the EPA or CARB didn't do good things, my lungs would like a word.

I had an electronic parts delivery job once where I got mad - they cut my hours in half, and at $3.35 an hour, that wouldn't have even paid for my commute, and they knew that, they just didn't have the cojones to fire me and give me unemployment. When I started the route, I did a neutral drop (revved the engine in…

I need a lead lined basement, because you just dropped 20 megatons of science!

You just took some Orange Sunshaane.

Yeah, you get outside of yourself and take a good look. Some people, they don't like what they see, and they shouldn't do it. I'm like you, and it made me comfortable with myself, and made me realize that most people are so preoccupied with themselves, they don't pay attention anyway. Weirdos unite!

The Yage letters: Malmso version (just pretend there are dots around some of those vowels)

Depends on your mood. I saw a Jimi Hendrix poster start jamming to one of his songs while on Vitamin A. On the other hand, Mr. Polka meets Mr. Yodel has its place when you're on a fun trip.

"I know a place where you can take a million trips. It's called the library." - Jack Webb

Dude, that's the point, and it's why all us young kids dig it the most! Sometimes, you just want to step outside for a while.

I feel like only Americans would do this. I mean, why waste a good chance to connect yourself with the other by shooting a stupid video about assembling shoddy furniture? However, that is a pro tip: Yodeling music - good for trips.

That's what I'm talking about.

My wife owns an acupuncture clinic and she's done it for my shoulder a few times. It's supposed to promote circulation. I'm sold on acupuncture for chronic conditions such as shoulder or back problems, where the only western alternative is steroid shots, surgery, or pain meds. Cupping? Jury still out, but I still do…

My wife is Chinese and I got the pay version for Criterion (RIP Les Blank). We'd watch the Taiwanese dramas, and they would drown us with ads. Also terminated with extreme prejudice.

I saw this at my grandpa's house as a 12 year old. Two things I remember. The end of the Final Solution episode, showing the emaciated bodies getting bulldozed into the mass graves. And Sir Larry, discussing the fate of Hitler's would-be assassins: "They hung them. Slowly. On meathooks."

I'm a butter and salt guy. One guy I know said peanut butter is good. I could see that.

Something about the way Reynolds is wearing his hat in the picture at the top annoys me no end. I think I need years of therapy.

I loved it too. I associate this with a trip to Missouri and a dam they were building that submerged my grandma's home town, around Sedalia somewhere, and a hot humid summer. My parents got very tired of 15-year-old me saying 'sumbitch'.

I HATE people who rely on others to get ahead! By the way, have you met my son?