One more thing: HEARING PROTECTION. Once you move to a full size kit, you need to start protecting your ears. It’s a lot more pleasant to play for long periods of time, and future you will thank you for not giving yourself a permanent case of tinnitus.

I definitely second the advice to start on a practice pad or snare drum before moving to a full kit. The basic rudiments are really foundational, but you won’t really learn them if you jump right into trying to play beats on the kit. The learning curve at the beginning is steep and you’ll do better if you take it…

Even if you sold a car that was guaranteed to last for thirty years, I don’t think the majority of consumers would buy one and keep it for that long. A couple of years from the purchase date, there will likely be some new technology that makes buying a new car attractive: improved safety, efficiency, or speed. If the…

honestly, I had Bandit Keith pegged as more of a 4th-gen Camaro kind of guy

The current generation GLA is 2.4" taller, 4" longer, and 1" wider and rides on the same wheelbase as the same-generation A-class hatch. The GLA is 0.7" taller, three inches wider, and 0 inches longer than the WRX hatch in my driveway. They call this thing a “crossover” because that’s the only way Americans will buy…

I think the front end looks kinda Maserati-ish, like it would’ve been right at home on the (sadly, not happening) next-gen GranTurismo. I think I like it less overall than the old F-Type front end.

As dumb as the Model S’s door handles are, the Model 3's situation is even worse. No one can figure out how to open the doors from the outside on the first try. I’ve seen probably a dozen people try and none of them get it. Even if you know *how* to do it (you push on the back part of the handle and then pull on the…

That can’t be right. There’s no way Andy Dalton has won six primetime games.

Like many things Trump says, there’s maybe just the most distant touch of the truth that goes into his tiny little peanut-brain, gets swirled around with all the racism and narcissism and skin toner byproduct, and comes out just as pure, unadulterated idiocy:

I’ve been pronouncing it as “dazin” in my head, but now I can’t not think of it as an extremely out-of-touch attempt to make Days Inn relevant to the kind of millennial that reads Barstool

It’s ridiculous that a franchise even has the ability to recoup “guaranteed” money that it has already paid to a player. This is exactly why the players need a union. They should really think about forming one.

The only thing that makes sense is that Lakers management thinks playing center is harder on his body and they want to keep him healthy for the part of the year that matters. They bring in some stiff to play center during the regular season, get themselves a 4-seed, and Davis plays center during the playoffs.

I really seriously wish they had made fewer variants. This thing probably needs three fewer engines (drop the four, drop the weaker V6 config, drop one of the V8 configs) and probably could do without AWD on the V6 and lower. I had trouble even finding a V6 of any description to test drive when I was shopping last…

I’d like to correct the record here:

The picture shows that he pulled over to do a raid. Its definitely possible that he knew where he was going before he started driving there.

I actually really like the PDK and greatly prefer it over a traditional auto. I haven’t noticed any real problems driving one day-to-day and in Sport mode, it’s practically telepathic.

Ha. As if Randy and Tammy ever had college funds for their kids. Randy and Tammy took whatever money WOULD have gone into the college funds and bought a shitty bass boat that Randy uses maybe twice a year.

My advice to you, second letter writer, is to do some research on cost-of-ownership before you buy a Boxster. Figure out which shops in your area service Porsches and how much they charge for service intervals or oil changes or other common Porsche fixes.

I just checked Pro Football reference and the only other active NFL player named Kyler is Kyler Fackrell, an outside linebacker for the Packers who stumbled ass-first into ten sacks last year. Fackrell is Mormon, from Arizona, and attended Utah State. It checks out.

This year’s Stanley Cup champions not only employed a Brayden and a Jaden, those two played on the first line with a guy named, uh, Vladimir (is there a Russian equivalent to Kayden?)