Is that I-81 I spy in the “Welcome to West Virginia” sign?  I’ve done the I-81 stretch so many times I’m pretty sure I could do it blindfolded now.

I have thousands of film photos from my days of using film plus several thousand slides I inherited from my father and another few thousand from my wife’s father. When I have the negatives, I use a film scanner (Nikon 4000, not available any more except on eBay). I use a flatbed scanner for photo prints (again,…

Fellow Southern transplant here. I can remember the Jello “salad” from the church picnics in rural Ohio during the 1960's.

As a former owner of an XJ12 (this car’s older brother) I couldn’t run away from this vehicle fast enough. We bought it as a “one owner” car (it really was the proverbial “little old lady” since we bought it from her estate) and with less than 80K miles. For the five or so years we had it I don’t think was roadworthy…

Neutral: We’ve purchased two cars from dealers in the last year and a half. My wife got a new Subaru after a guy in a 1982 Econoline totaled our Honda Odyssey. The dealership was so-so...we pretty much knew what we wanted and had cash in hand thanks to a quick payout from State Farm. Making the decision to buy took…

The automaker late last year announced intentions to focus more on customer loyalty and retention instead of conquesting buyers from other brands, which they say is harder. Customer experience is at the heart of retention, Ford said, and the company looked to non-automotive companies such as Apple, Google, Marriott…

All my stars to you, good sir (or madam as the case may be).

When I was in high school (early 1970's) I worked for a very old-school vet. While he was located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, his house was on a very large lot with maybe a half acre of uncleared land. That was the graveyard for the hundreds of animals that died under his care over the years and whose owners left…

This again? There was a more obscure version of this when someone created a parody account for the mayor of Peoria, Illinois (Not Jim Ardis, @NotPeoriaMayor describe as “Not the mayor or Peoria, IL. Parody account. Mayor Jim Ardis and the Peoria Police can suck it.”)

When the account first went up the mayor pulled all…

Former DNC chair Donna Brazile is joining Fox News as a contributor.

What, he didn’t go take a huge shit in front when leaving the restaurant?  I’m not a SF resident but have been there on business enough to know exactly where this McD’s is....

I’ve owned at least five C&D “10 Best” cars. I do cross-reference them with Consumer Reports (the school marm of car recommendations) just to make sure.

He won’t run again.  He’s already backing out with the “sickly” excuse.  I almost pity the fool that the NCGOP picks to get their ass kicked in the special election.  Almost.

Absolutely.  I’ve had the F80 for about a year and a half now and I just don’t have the heart to sell the M5.  It feels too much like putting a beloved pet to sleep....the M3 is jolly fun but the piped-in sound just sounds lame to the real sound of the M5's Dinan pipes.

So what BMW do you own (or have owned)? This sounds suspiciously like someone who’s been down that road.

Yeah, this is the part that concerns me most. A long, long time ago I worked night shift (11 PM to 7:00 AM) alone at a 7-11 located in a sketchy neighborhood. I only had to pull a knife on one customer, though.

That earned me a felony-level ticket.  Even the state trooper was surprised at how fast I could pass that semi.

You leave the room so that when you’re rear-ended by some yob who’s texting there’s enough room to scrub off energy that would otherwise total your car.  Ask me how I learned this...:-/

I am definitely bigoted against baby boomers who’ve done nothing but fuck up the world for future generations for going on 50 years.

Driving into Nashville on morning I saw a gentleman tailgating a howitzer. The local National Guard often moves equipment on I-24 and this day they were towing a large piece of field artillery...I don’t know my army weapons but it was similar to what you’d see outside the local VFW except for a very long (fifty feet?)…