I get that this is a PR piece but I gotta leave this here... it’s hard to see Michael Mann in the spotlight again after my career in film post production unearthed so much dirt. I’ve heard the war stories about Michael being verbally and emotionally abusive. He’s pitted editing teams against each other to have their…

I’m sure everyone’s noticed that about half of what’s left are exotics and most of the rest are luxury/high performance offerings. Of the only relatively attainable convertibles, many of are jeep-like things. So that leaves us with the Miata, the Mini Cooper, the Mustang and the Camaro for relatively “normal”…

It’s only paedophilia if he’s only primarily sexually interested in prepubescent children. Exposing your privates to teenage girls is a different perversion.  

Meh, part of owning and riding a superbike Ducati was having skill to ride it without depending on the engineers making it “easy to ride”. I have a 1299S with with Ducati Corse titanium exhaust with upmap and other mods. It’s not easy to ride but on some occasions where I get it right, through a series of turns…I feel…

Can’t argue with this point of view, but there seems to be an assumption that the new ~200 hp bikes are too much, but the ~150 hp bikes of a few years ago weren’t/aren’t much less imposing. My Streetfighter V4S is intimidating, but so was my previous BMW S1000R. Agree about the supermoto, though - I find my SWM SM500R…

more forgiving for beginners.  fuck that.  dont give beginners that much power.  might as well give a 6 year old a 50cal. 

I’m in Ontario, Canada. I’m sure nobody would insure a novice on this bike here. They’d insure me on it for a price, but on the street it is nothing, but bragging and on the track you can’t afford the eventual drop. Makes no real sense to this old guy.

In a perfect world maybe you’d be right but on the whole I think the motorcycling community has decided they’re not going to follow that advice and I don’t think that’s going to change. I loose at least one friend or acquaintance from my local motorcycling community every year, sometimes it’s people who have been…

No beginner should set foot anywhere near a bike like this.

“Released in 1975 as King’s second published novel, ‘Salem’s Lot follows the classic King formula with the fanged addition of vampires.“

The performance numbers are bonkers, these used to be Moto GP numbers only a “few” years ago. Now you can walk into a dealership, buy this bike with a license plate and ride it in public. The technology is impressive, the only issue I would worry about if I could be this bike, that I would become complacent with all…

“it was a social blip for all of Western society”

I’m sorry, but every time I see an article on GRRM “finishing” the series, I think, “F” him. I loved the first three books and they are still on my top ten of best fantasy books but you know, I started the series when it first came out 26ish years ago and the wait since then has been ridiculous; five years, six years…

If the books never come out then they cant end the same way as the show.

This photo answers some questions. 

Manslaughter and attempted rape? Hellz yeah I’m marrying that guy!

I think I’m finally starting to get MCU fatigue. Echo and She-Hulk barely register on my radar. I didn’t watch Ms Marvel, and while I’ve considered buying a ticket to see Thor tomorrow, I haven’t yet.

You obviously haven’t seen Heat.

Ah. Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys were created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a business that churned out formulaic “extruded book-like product” written by contract writers.

Yep, Tom Swift is from 1910. It’s from the era of the Wizard of Oz books, but without a technicolor musical repping the IP for 80 years and keeping it in the public consciousness.