Wally in his prime:

Right on the nose, the weirdest thing I’ve seen at a dealership was a used car seller in Lincoln, NE who was locally known as “Weird Wally”. He sold junker cars for cheap, did shoddy work (when he deigned to do repair work), and never pretended to be anything other than what he was.

Case in point: A friend of my dad’s…

My current car - 2011 Honda Pilot - was bought in 2013 because my family was doing foster care at the time. We took in two foster kids in addition to the two bio-kids we had...only to find out that these two foster kids had two more siblings that had been placed in foster care in other homes because CPS couldn’t find…

NP for me, but this is mostly a penitent move on my part.

First, I had a 351 Cleveland in my very first car (70 Montego MX), which I ran into the ground with no regard for the potential of the mill since this was high school and years before I was anything close to resembling a “car guy”. But even after that bug bit,…

I have been to this actual shop before in my travels. It’s not even the largest game shop in the Omaha/Lincoln area so this is a real boon for them.

Peer pressure can be a means to get your pre-teens and teenagers to work on self-improvement. Saying things like “Franklin sounds like he’s really disciplined in doing his homework” or “Isabella was playing hard on the pitch today” get your kids to look at the behaviors you like in their friends and perhaps aspire to…

1/2 cup of hoisin mixed with 1/2 cup of Sriracha, topped with chopped plain nuts.

1/2 cup of hoisin mixed with 1/2 cup of Sriracha, topped with chopped plain nuts.

Given that it’s a song about touring, I have always argued that the live version of this from 1976's Live Bullet album is the definitive one; moreso than the studio cut, and certainly more than any latter-day cover version. That is all.

I saw that movie...

I largely agree with your list, except I would knock the GBA Micro down a notch or two for not having backward compatibility with GBC and GB titles. Had this happened, the SP series would have been completely superfluous.

Yep. Hell of a good cast in this one.

1981's Ghost Story is a pretty good, somewhat forgotten horror film, the mood of which is helped by the fact that it’s all set in the middle of an oppressive small town winter.

I have a pair of friends who were once married to one another (I was their best man) but they have been divorced for about five years now. My personal relationship with both of these people dates back to our high school days (which were over 30 years ago at this point).

NP only because I’m a sentimental fool. My mother used to have the `83 hatchback version, and this was also the first car I ever drove. This is close enough for me to be okay with dropping three large so my youngest son can have a learning-to-drive experience roughly approximating my own.

This reminds me of how when Magnavox released the first home videogame console (Magnavox Odyssey) in the early 1970s, some of their sales people tried to peddle the line to customers that the console was only compatible with Magnavox manufactured televisions. I can’t believe HD is still trying to pull this horse…

It all came together in one kit. Takes about 3 to 4 hours to install. 60 miles per gallon with a top speed of 25 to 30mph.

I thought the same thing. My mid 70s Goldwing has a cooling fan on the radiator. I’d hardly call this groundbreaking stuff from Honda with respect to the Pac Coast.

My Sunday ride is technically a bicycle.

Two of them are strictly off-road. Otherwise it’s just a combination of regional happenstance and middle-aged, clean record insurance rates.

Six bikes in my garage. As I explain it to others, I possess more bikes than common sense.