Don’t forget also that if you want to stretch/flex your payments, or deal with a nothing/nearly-nothing down loan, with good credit you’re likely to find options at the moment for historically low interest rates. We had to buy one used car, and bought one new last year, and the interest rates we got were for six years…

Sorry, I can’t hear you over how awesome the Errol Morris ads were for High Life. As a semi-beer snob, and recovering beer nazi, and homebrewer, and German person, I didn’t get it at 20. I get it now... it’s so perfect for what it is... amazingly charming design with real roots, and just good simplicity, and better…

Also counterproductive. Alcohol suppresses testosterone balance, even a little bit of booze. So, drink after working out, drink before working out, your body does a crummy job building new muscle, and may in fact reduce the strength you have in an effort to keep you running normally.

So, I’m going to have to be a terrible person and ask: the cousins asking you to care for their 7 kids... are they leaving a sizable trust fund to use for their raising? Are they leaving something for YOU to deal with raising this tribe of offspring? If so, go for it. If not, the hard facts are that this is a huge…

The answer, as always, is Miata.

That was the part that really stunned me. He, to his credit in one limited moment here, seems to hesitate slightly before diving in, but jesus... I can’t, I just can’t even react to someone holding a person down and asking their EXTREMELY YOUNG CHILD to hit them in the face while you hold them.

I also love the…

The only kind of beer you really don’t want to try making is the kind of beer everyone buys in the grocery store... lager is (definitely for someone getting into the hobby, and even for someone more experienced the equipment is a pain in the ass) prohibitively complicated, and is available cheaply enough it’s not…

I’ve never personally used a normal residential grill that got the same level of searing power as a cheapo kettle grill at full blast. The task of controlling charcoal is a pain, comparatively, and it’s a longer delay to get started, but the pure thermal output is in a different class on a good kettle grill.

In a sad, horrible sea of boring, dreadful basketball, as a Knicks fan, I always loved watching J.R. Smith play. In a less blue collar way, there’s something about him that has John Starks from way back when as a spirit animal, and I’m pulling for him to lay down some lunacy if possible in these finals.

I lived right on Ocean Parkway, or near it, for around 10 years. This is true in that it’s a slog to get from Prospect Park to Coney Island at the best, but the 25 mph limit doesn’t help. It was, however, not some version of Tokyo Drift before... the limit used to be a zany THIRTY miles per hour before “Vision Zero.”

Be careful with the Weber one-touch ash clearing system if you use the lump charcoal, as it can fall through while still not being burned to ash, which catches in the sweeper/vanes of the ash system, jamming and damaging it. You can buy replacement parts, but it’ll keep happening... I’ve gone back to non-lighter fluid…

Can the worst draft decision ever possibly ever include the #95 pick?

As a total neckbeard who will never smell the interior of any of these, I will note that there are people who daily drive Veyrons, and the idea that it’s a car that can function as A CAR is pretty remarkable given its overall capacity.

Also, how is anyone really taking advantage of the “insane limits” of a Huayra or a…

The shame of it all is that police who are decent, and fair, and reasonable (and I still harbor hope that their numbers represent a majority, or at least a meaningful percentage in most departments) aren’t coming forward to speak out against the ones who are violent, unfair, and motivated by bad intentions. As long as…

I love the feeling in an NBA arena that the people who are playing (or performing crummy halftime shows) could actually possibly HEAR you if you shout loud enough in a lull. It’s one of the things that makes the league awesome (says the guy who blew out his voice screaming “AIRBALL” at Reggie Miller at Market Garden…

I feel like that clause should be added to every offense and apology by everyone going forward. She’s apparently also apologized for all this hubbub in Baltimore.

Shaun worked for me from the start, though it got deeper as I rewatched it. Hot Fuzz didn’t get the hooks in the first or second time, but I think as I’ve gotten through it again it gets more and more developed. World’s End had the least traction with me the first time, I was actually kind of pissed off about it, but…

Aaaaaaand I’m depressed :)

I heard an anecdote from a working comedian about Tim Allen showing up to do a set at the Comedy Store after his TV show wrapped, and that he was working on a joke about how expensive it was to get his Ferrari maintained (or something along those lines.) It’s hard to do comedy well if you’re not a pretty deft mind…

I’ve seen far, far worse people at open mic nights who are seriously aspiring to do comedy. Given the comments, I was expecting so very much worse I can’t even explain it.

The key is relatability... DON’T WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE A BOY TOY NOT KNOW WHO PICASSO IS WHEN HE SEES THE SHOCKINGLY EXPENSIVE ART OVER…