I remember being at my reg bar when #7 started the kneeling protest. By the third week, this old, fat, white idiot in a confederate hat was raising holy hell out loud to anyone who would hear how disgraceful Kap was being during the national anthem. I finally had enough and said, “I don’t see you standing when they’re…

Cheap ball-points for work. That way when people inevitably steal the goddamn things after signing a receipt, I’m not out too much $$. Plus, I can discourage said behavior by keeping the caps by the register when I hand the pen/paper off.

Not sure if it counts as a “rental” but during my final year of University, I had basically unlimited access to the long-bed golf cart that the campus paper used to deliver stacks around campus for student dispersal (probably lined a ton of bird cages). During late night editing sessions, we’d often take a breaks to…

I once asked one of the Waltrip’s (thehellif I know which one) if he ever “drank Bailey’s from a shoe?” during an between shot Q&A at some terrible “Nascar’s Got Talent” style show they shot at the Las Vegas Speedway (I was an audience extra). He didn’t appreciate it very much...

I had a buddy here in Las Vegas (since moved to PA), that got a “modified exhaust” ticket almost weekly from the same cop on the main road that led to his street (no choice but to take it). He had a WRX with an STi Genome exhaust swapped in over stock. Every time he got the ticket, he had it dismissed because it was…

He was a 4 hour drive from Las Vegas, which just legalized recreational marijuana. I know a ton of people who would rather use their neigh-bro-hood connection (because they run your ID when you go in), but if you’re talking amounts of this quantity, why take the chance on this very thing?

Too much $$ for an otherwise awesome vagabond-mobile. Knock that to 4,000 or under and I’d have cash in hand. I’m guesstimating a good 500-2k would mint that engine and interior into a cross-country Cars & Coffee road trip. Which is exactly what I’d do with that next summer.

The real question is going to be how long are they going to push enforcement until the hype dies and it gets ignored again? It’s like when they made cell phone use illegal while driving (which is technically is anyway under “distracted driving”). They enforced it for all of 2 months before it slid under the radar and…

This game was an absolute beast for creativity in both design and implement for its era. Probably one of my favorite DC titles (up there with Cannon Spike and Skies of Arcadia) to have owned. The music (which everyone has already mentioned) was insanely good. Probably the most in my car jammable of any game OST I…

I’ve been on several multi-day/week trips and find that a carry-on size backpack w/ duffel conversion and an attachable day-pack have been the absolute best. In ‘o8 I took a 50L Victorinox backpack (now long discontinued and I can’t find anything similar anymore) that opened like a duffel and had an attachable…

Ironman triathalon, anyone? 4.2 mile swim (absolutely chaotic and massively dangerous until people start spreading apart), 112 mile bike and depending on the course (that’s longer than a lot of TdF stages), 26.2 mile run (i.e. full marathon). You get just under 17 hours to do all of this, or it doesn’t even count. The…

A C+? Even surrounded by A’s and B’s, Not at all surprised for Nevada. Though, if you were referring to Las Vegas alone instead of the whole state, I’d imagine it would be much, much lower.

I may or may not have used my white privilege (full disclosure, only half white, but the Hispanic side blends in when I’m talking to uniforms), to act as liaison between friends, associates and the police. Pretty much always to great effect.  

The majority of the service industry (at least in casinos) is union in Las Vegas. It nets us job perks that aren’t the standard for a position. I know that if I ever leave the state, while I could most likely easily get work doing this based on experience + where I learned to tend, I’m never going to earn what I make…

Oh yeah, especially in bars. They just leave the change from their initial purchase out front like it’s a tip (which we won’t touch until you leave), then, depending on how they feel about whatever imagined samurai code they have, will either pay for the next round out of a different bill, or take the money from the…

I have a change jar that I make liberal use of throughout the year. If it’s in my pocket when I get home, it goes in the jar. Though, I do keep enough in my car to cover most change basics if I hit a drive through, basically everything goes in the jar. I’d say I generate between 250-400 a year in change (cash job…

I totally understand, getting gone is a glorious feeling, but in the interest of safety, let at least someone know your general plans or at least direction headed (I tell my folks and put it on FB). I lost a friend several years ago on a trail running/hiking accident and the only reason we even knew the vague area to…

Z&tAoMM was literally post-graduate reading the chair of my film dept. gave me after I finished my degree. That, combined with “Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa”, “Europe on $5 a Day” and Kerouac’s “On The Road.” all led me to do anything but stay at home getting a desk job. That was 13 years ago, and while I’ve…

That you can’t unclog yourself and NEED to get help. Drive home that humility and get a great humbling story out of it. Plus, it’s a test of true friendshit, err, I mean, friendship.

I did that drive back in ‘08, but the other way, Denver to KC. I split it into 2 days, camping overnight in some farmer’s front yard that he operated as a cheap campground (I paid around $13, for the night). There was a wicked storm, bad enough that he offered me the floor of his living room if I wanted, but I…