This makes me really thankful for my neighbor who keeps his little plane (not airworthy) in his garage. I think I’ve seen it in the driveway once in 14 years. I’m almost certain nothing else has ever parked in their garage.

“After you’re irresponsible....” Get outta here with that bullsh1t.

Not using the trick would be an insult to his dear old dead dad.

I also did the 458 and an Aston at Exotics. I think SpeedVegas (which appears to be south of the Strip) built their track so they could advertise the ability to get the cars to the highest speeds. Which is really a dumb thing for the whole clientele and mindset out there. I liked the experience at Exotics, but I…

They are fun. If you have the money, go to a professional place that has access to a real track. I’ve done rentals on Spa, Nurburgring, and a different place in Vegas, and manufacturer events at a few in the United States. Just go and have fun, but be incredibly safe. There’s a lot of dumb stupid people who don’t know…

Yeah - I don’t know why you need to submerge the jar - just run the tap up until it’s quite hot, try to run the water only over the lid, and so you maximize the expanding metal, without affecting the temperature (or expansion) of anything else. This is what I do if my husband isn’t around for me to make it his…

Here’s the thing... she is going through a divorce. That can put even a normally mentally healthy person out on the edge... even at a moment’s notice. You couldn’t possibly effectively keep tabs on everyone’s interpersonal relationships and ensure that they weren’t recently broken up, breaking up, fighting, estranged,…

DC burbs: 73 Tuesday, 70 Wednesday, 33 (hi) Thursday with rain, wind and snow squalls (white-out in the afternoon for a half hour), 35 (hi) Friday with wind, 63 today, 70 tomorrow. The dog has already had a couple of ticks. The squirrels and birds seem thoroughly confused, but at least it hasn’t been very cold.

I’d love it if package after package from Amazon started arriving at the White House to deliver this book.

Reading these is uplifting. The same way that watching a Hooter’s Pageant once made me feel so much better that I had less cellulite than most of those women.

And that they are the ultimate arbiters of whether you are doing your job correctly. Dance for me, monkeys!

The Today Show this morning had Nicole Wallace return to Erie PA which had voted Democrat for the past 50 years, and went for Trump. And those folks were doubling down on their support, though a couple of them said that they wished he tone down the ancillary pontificating. The one woman wanted the borders closed to…

I’m about your age and wanted to drive so badly (which my parents supported) that they drove me to my driver’s test on the morning of my 16th birthday, which was a couple of hours before my grandfather’s funeral. A lot of kids in our current neighborhood wait years to learn to drive. I don’t get it. It’s a…

Agreed. The $10k isn’t laying around - the parents are likely putting in almost all of those funds, so it’s not like it’s a gift of $10k that they wouldn’t put into their retirement account or his college fund otherwise. It’s also an investment in having their lives back and not having to haul Joey around everywhere.

Yeah - don’t know what caused it; that wasn’t me. I didn’t ever hit publish but once, nor had any snags at all - it appeared to post regularly. I think Kinja had a hiccup today.

1. I adore Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown. I don’t understand how a person can be so prolific and so good at the same time, and whatever it is about his music, I like it almost every time.

If they ever do it again (which they will, because it made them money), do it. I totally wanted to travel and go to another one of the shows. Yep, they’re paunchier, but it was still fun as all hell.

Cool show in Austin. Because of a cancellation of a show from earlier in my life, the only U2 show I got to attend was in support of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It wasn’t the same. It certainly wasn’t 1985 or 1995.

His loss. I was a valedictorian cheerleader with my own savings account. I also had a car, because I had friends to go see. You can’t make out in a savings account. You must assume this kid — and all other kids — live somewhere robustly walkable or with good public transportation. That just isn’t true most places.

My theory (I hope I die before I get old) is that your rock heroes either have to pass away young or disappear to go live on Rock Star Island(TM). They can’t just putter around, get old, get paunchy, get mild, decide to put out soft mounds of crap or show up for every photo op. They can live with their wealth in the…