Truth. Wrenching always involves these kinds of messes. Wisdom is knowing that you won’t know what you don’t know until you find out.

I remember the first time I tried to do the brakes on my old Suburban in college. Ended up cracking the rusty bleeder valves off the rusty calipers and because I didn’t give myself…

If I drive fast enough the virus can't land on me 

I’m lucky that I previously lived in a city that had a college with a film lab the public could use, and now I live in a city that has a camera store/film lab that does colorf processing in-house for a very reasonable price.

You know you wanna cruise Woodward in a Trabant.

Neutral: Honestly, not bad. Photography has been a real boon for me over the last 6 months.

Was out shooting some film yesterday and spotted a crusty ‘74 BMW 2002tii next to a McDonald’s. While I was shooting it the owner showed up and it turns out he’s owned the car since it was new. He brought it to WNY from…

Okay, I see. So it kinda depends on what division/service of the Amazon empire you’re working for. It sounds like the most predatory/competitive part of it is the one where the freelancers are doing whatever they can to get an advantage on their peers.

Wild. So is this just for the pickup side of the operation? Or are those big gray vans just roaming around looking for pickups when they’re not making deliveries? I’m trying to understand how my stuff is getting from A to B.

Okay, so I guess I don’t understand how Amazon drivers are getting paid, or who they work for, or how their operation works?

Is there somewhere I can read up on this? It sounds...fucked up.

They’re just waiting for it to come back into style

Here’s me focusing on the small details that I appreciate: the bottom of the steering wheel being open so I can rest my hand there. I won’t buy a car that doesn’t have a wheel shape like this.

There are plenty of non-rich Republicans like this too. I work in the solar industry and we get plenty of people who want solar power. But it’s because they hate paying money to the utility company, not because they like the environment. The amount of customers we have to walk back from the “I don’t want my system…

Holy shit. I’ve never seen this before.

I now have a new dream car...

Yup. This is the problem with the “civil debate” complaint. It’s all fun and games until “that guy who thinks crazy stuff” turns into millions of people who want you dead and one of them gets elected President.

It’s quirky and fun, until it’s not.

This is great. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “car culture” and how it’s evolving, and how at some point people are going to be trying to make crossover SUVs cool/fun in whatever way they can (always look to the budget/common cars for new trends). And here we have someone who loves first gen Kia Sorrentos and a…

Never did win no checkered flags but he never did come in last

When you get a Golf GTI

Great piece Brett! Definitely something to explore further.

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I think the biggest problem for Katy staying relevant is that we’re never going to be able to go back to those halcyon days of pop music from like ‘08 to ‘11. That era of pop music was exceptional and you basically couldn’t fail to make a hit.

But we’re not drinkin 4 Loko, shoutin YOLO, and sendin drunk texts on a…