I’ve driven on kart tracks longer than that. Who thought it would be a good idea to run 3500 lb stock cars on a mini course?

That’s good to hear. I’ve read a lot about the 4C but it’s weeeeeelllll out of my price range so I don’t have any personal experience. I just know the former Top Gear guys tend to shit on it at every opportunity for value but I think if you want a light, fast car it’s probably the cream of the crop for what is offered…

I am honestly convinced that they won’t care at all. I work with a few Trumpers and have tried to untangle what in the hell they are thinking, they literally refuse to believe that any criticism of him is valid. Pussy grabbing tape was off the record so it can’t be judged. 3am unhinged tweeting is great, he’s…

I don’t know, I kind of get the feeling there could be a video of him shitting on an American flag and speaking in tongues and his supporters will brush it off as “fake news”. I think the Mueller report is when the axe is gonna drop and there will still be an angry minority that whines about the deep state conspiracy…

The 4C is pretty and exciting but by most accounts it’s a pain in the ass to live with, it’s basically a track car and it’s expensive as hell for what you get. There is certainly an argument to be made that this new Alpine is more desirable as a road going car.

What on earth is wrong with a sixth gen Celica?

It really depends on what model of car you have. Some are easy and quick, others are not. I worked for a place that had a fleet of Ford Transit work vans and the cabin filters never got replaced because none of the shops we contracted to work on them could figure out how the hell to remove them. They required some…

I also enjoy the Tour. Lots of eye candy if you’re a bike nerd.

Two drunk people had sex. That’s what happened. End of story.

It’s really a difficult show to get into though. It’s been out for years now, Netflix knows that it has a limited audience. The plot progression has been described as “glacial”. I’ve tried to watch the show a number of times and I just have no interest to keep watching after 30 minutes into the first episode. I don’t…

Yup! I dug it. I can understand if others didn’t, everyone is different.

I am quite familiar with the book, I’ve read it a number of times. I mean I’m curious how they manage to make it so viscerally disturbing in a live performance with limited ability to employ visual effects.

I think they mean that he is actively serving. There are lots of positions in the Reserve and Guard that are actually full time. I spent 4 years on active duty service even though I was in a reserve squadron for example and during the period that I was on orders I was considered active duty. I’m not sure what this…

I’ve done it! For me it was pulling a hand truck with heavy stuff up flights of stairs. Basically I was told that I was pulling too hard with my upper body and it results in your rib cage flexing out and you wind up with tissue damage when the weakest rib pops out of your sternum by just a tiny bit. It usually goes…

Oh no. The announcer there is great too, trying not to laugh.

I can honestly say having seen both the film and the play that the play was soooo much better. In this case I’m with your mom, the movie was kind of gross and not fun in comparison.

I really don’t see much of a point to that rule, it’s not like riders are gonna be hurling themselves over the bars at the finish. The dude and the bike crossed the line, cut him a break!

Usually I avoid the hell out of anything that’s labeled “torture porn” but I’m genuinely curious how they are managing to freak people out with a stage performance. The last (only) Broadway play I saw was Sweeney Todd and it was plenty tame considering it’s about murder and cannibalism.

All of that and as far as I can tell the whole exercise of learning “the movements” seems to be so they could look weird to distract a bad guy until he got tackled by the janitor. I kept waiting for things to line up and make sense but I was just left with a big WTF by the end.

It teases such an interesting premise and then does some really bizarre stuff. The end of the first season is an absolute mind boggle but not in a good way.