Brave, but correct. 

This is exactly the car I would want to buy to thrash myself into knowing how to drive stick better (I’m only barely passable). But holy crap is it overpriced. $500 at best.

GREAT book. Read it last winter.

I think the thing that gets me about Bricklin is his resilience (for lack of a better word). No matter how badly one of his ideas goes, people always seem to end up giving him money for the next one. There must be something about the guy. Maybe it’s that his enthusiasm for his schemes…

It’s called being a “Serial Entrepreneur” and Malcolm Bricklin is the king of it.

It’s wonderful and I love it. The Trooper is definitely one of the more non-traditional cars in my dream garage.

But it’s also overpriced by about $3-4,000.

The career counselor thing would probably be worth looking into. I was considering it before covid and then I just shifted into "lucky to have a job" mode. 

Frankly, I agree with you. Which is kinda why I’m in the spot I’m in. I’m not someone who has ever had some big, driving goal. I used to joke when I was in college that my dream job was to retire. The part in between getting a degree and retirement has basically always been a big empty blank space. I’ve tried filling…

I’ve been doing a lot of working out at home. Prison style I guess haha I started doing this “Marine” pull-up regimen in June and it’s been great. Went from trying to do 90 reps a week to doing 90 reps a day in only a few months. Lost 15 lbs. I’m like the only person the quarantine has been good to.

Getting older doesn’t help. My life pretty much nuked itself this year, the pandemic not withstanding (The pandemic was actually helpful for me. It forced me out of a lot of habits/obligations that I’m now happier without), and now I’m in my mid-thirties and trying to figure out what the heck comes next. I don’t have…

The only thing keeping me going right now is that the pay isn’t bad and the pandemic didn’t put me out of work. So I’m just...putting money into savings. Maybe I’ll buy a house, maybe I’ll move to another city, I have no idea. I can’t remember a time in my life where there were simply no decisions to make. It would be…

Neutral: Not great, I guess? I’m trying to hunt for a new job because I’m bored at my current one and need a change, but every time I start looking I end up going into a depression spiral because I can’t find anything I want to apply for.

I need to make a change, but I am completely lost as far as what that change…

Ohh yaaaa let’s gooo

Absolutely not

This is my hope. I would easily pay $150/yr to get Defector if it came with all of my favorite Jalopnik writers, including some of the ones that are out of work right now :(

Make it happen Defector.

I wouldn’t even be mad. I would laugh until I cried. I would cry out the entirety of my bottled up emotions from the previous 4 years. You’d have to hook me up to a saline drip when I’m done.

It’s probably with this shirt

Sabine kills me. I love her.

I’m sure there will be a bunch of comments here shitting on Top Gear but I think if you haven't given this current lineup a chance you should. Freddie, Chris and Paddy have a good rapport and bring a little more youthful energy to the show that it really needed. It feels far enough removed from Clarkson, Hammond and…

My motorcycle bailed me out a few times back then to be sure. I remember one cold, rainy/snowy November ride to the AutoZone to get a different distributor because RockAuto sent me the wrong one. That was fun...

That’s another pro tip: make sure the parts you ordered are the right ones before you take things apart! lol