“Diabetes. Why lose inches when you can lose feet?”

This is dumb, and semantics; but they didn’t technically drop it, right? Unintentionally released in to a (presumably) unstable orbit?

Have you tried diabetes? I lost 60lbs before I got my rear end in to my doctor for a diagnosis. Having an A1C if 10%+ will really melt the pounds away (and make you feel like absolute shit).

There is just so, so much here to unpack.

So, one more reason not to visit Paris?  I knew the French were trying to kill me!

The images remind of of Centralia, PA before they tore most of the houses down. Of course, there it is due to a coal fire deep underground instead of a volcano, but still.

I wish I could have gotten a picture, but the weather was terrible and I was driving.  This was around 2018 or so?

It’s harder to make calls *in* to prison.  Have you tried calling her collect?

Wrangler with the “angry face” grille.

Cool, now I know what to look for in the gutter in high bike-theft areas.

Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee

No doubt qualified immunity will come in to play.

RE: Hyperion. Yes, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Endymion and Rise of Endymion can rot in the trash heap.

Depends on how you want to define it, but I’m going to go with what everyone my age was driving when coming of age. Some kind of Dodge K car in the early to mid ‘90s with model years from 5 - 15 years prior.
Cheap, plentiful and basically disposable. The 2.2 was terrible, but it was *everywhere*. The Omni/Horizon and…

Well, fuck a duck. I *just* got out of the greys (again) a few weeks ago.

I don’t know what you’d call Deadspin these days, but it ain’t really carrying on. A desecrated, skull fucked corpse being held up by cheap AI puppet strings maybe?

I have had the opposite experience.  On both coasts any actual owners I have met have been 70+, and most have been their first open air vehicle.  I do see youngins in tourist areas that have them as rentals, but owners have always been older.

As a young Gen X I appreciate many of these cars, but don’t really want to own any of them, maybe except a small RV.

There’s a lot to be said for being 16, driving with a bench seat and no center console, that’s for sure.

So, what rims would you recommend switching to? Because those absolutely mar what is otherwise a very lovely looking vehicle.