I used to drive a lightly modded WRX (well, a Saabaru) in bumper to bumper traffic and it was mentally exhausting. The boost came on like a hammer, so you’d go from slipping the clutch to get moving without a stall to either roasting the clutch disc or rocketing out of the hole. I also had a Fit for a while, which was…

I have a mkVII GTI and it’s as ideal a car as I could ever hope to own, at least at this stage in my life. The DSG can be a little jerky in heavy traffic but you learn to manage it. Honestly, driving in manual mode is the way to go.

Not just my knees, but my anxiety. I drove nothing but manuals for years and the bumper to bumper, stop and go was a killer!

The old-school driving enthusiast in me is happy about the 6-speed, but the 40+ year old pragmatist that I’ve become feels without a good automatic/DSG option Honda will be disappointed by sales because a whole lot of guys like me don’t actually want a manual daily driver, if we’re honest.

The Soul is the new Civic hatchback.

It’s Columbia Meats... Columbia Meats

Tennessee is now so gerrymandered no non-white person will ever again have meaningful say in how the state is run.

The frequency at which I was biting into woody meat, which is the single most unappetizing texture of food imaginable, has caused me to basically swear off fast food. I was down to just the occasional chicken sandwich if I had a need and the craving, but nah. I haven’t eaten fast food in months now thanks to this…

I sort of hate GT Sport. By this point in my life I was far less concerned with Getting Gud and just playing for fun, but the design of the game made that almost impossible. Compared to GT4, Sport is an absolute slog that constantly reminds you how untalented you are.

The local theater reported opening day was sparse, by Sunday it was sold out. It might be the word of mouth movie of the year.

$42,000-53,000.

Can’t vinyl be recycled? Couldn’t they shred them then... you know... turn them into something else?

Jesus Christ.

Buy a quasi-experimental, public-beta product, expect to deal with crap like this.

The zenith of the GT franchise. Maybe the physics and damage modeling got more sophisticated, but never more fun. 

I want to hear stories from people who are now being punished for teleworking, because I know a lot of private sector folks whose managers are scheduling meetings right at the start of the day or even before, or during lunch hours, or after hours. Or writing people up for being a few minutes late. Or using the…

I still haven’t gotten over the time when I worked retail my manager made be work three full days of doubles after a snowstorm because he drove a RWD sports car and he had no way to drive in.

The thing is, this show made me laugh more than I’ve laughed in a long time. For that alone, its first season gets an A.

This show is making less and less sense. I watched The Clone Wars and Rebels, and never got the sense Mandalorians were this stuffy and boring. Maybe it’s just this specific cult, but the stilted dialogue (even Commander Data uses more contractions than these guys) and the apparent aimlessness of their existence -…

This is good news. I don’t think anyone at Disney or Lucasfilm knows what the hell they’re doing. At this point the best we can hope for is the righting of the ship, and the ONLY possibility I see of that happening is taking the Mandoverse to theaters for an epic culmination and conclusion of that storyline. Wait…