At a record show Saturday a skinny, bearded hipster and his beardless girlfriend were thumbing through the bin next to me. He excitedly holds up a Kanye album and asks the booth owner if it’s the best one. He bought it and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
My wife said “they look like a Volkswagen ad”.
I don’t have a moral…

The micro-second after hearing “It’s really nobody’s fault,” I would’ve had her insurance company on the line while filing an accident report with the police - because anyone who’d say that while clearly at fault - is incapable of accepting responsibility. One day she’ll mow down a motorcyclist and say the same thing,…

Not long after this TMBG classic came out I got to see an Ensor painting at the Prado. Not sure anyone appreciated me singing aloud in the gallery.

You’re aces at planning. Me, not so much. I had an idea for a startup while employed in Japan and returned to Austin to collaborate with friends. Got as far as a provisional patent and pitching the idea at TL as well as Austin Ventures before the bottom fell out of the market. Properly chastened I should have returned…

When I taught in Odawara I hadn’t accumulated much so schlepping my apartment to my new job 150km’s away in Tsukuba wasn’t a gigantic hassle. But a year later when I was packing, selling and shipping everything to return to Austin, not having a car royally sucked. Everyone who could take advantage of me - did. Car2Go…

Tell me about these "moat people" - I am intrigued!

Finally, someone uses the word "literally" correctly. +1

Nice attempt at rewriting history Qiu Wei. Your government censors everything in your country and your "Great Firewall" banishes any meaningful criticism of Chinese policy. I expect you're a paid troll in the services of your government - or just clueless. If the events of June '89 really were acts of stupidity your…

No jokes here, that is not fun and six people have died in related crashes. What's happening? The weight of the key ring, coupled with a rough road, can cause the ingestion switch to turn of. Oh, yeah, and the airbags then might not work.

Where here skin? Huh?

I also won't say anything about it. Not a peep.

In all the comments, no mention of the 1st gen Honda Insight? The magic boffins at Honda utilized pulses of the IMA hybrid motor to smooth out the inherent vibrations of the 3 cylinder engine. The Insight, along with the S2000 were the last great cars from a now anodyne car company.

Some years ago Jack Baruth obliquely mentioned the Fleet Foxes and as I think he's kinda cool what with his racin' and womanizin' and all I decided to check 'em out. I'm glad I did. Usually the auto-journos have appalling taste in music but Murilee and Baruth seem to be exceptions. Oh, and maybe Hardigree ...

I taught Engrish in Odawara back in '99 - '00 and marveled at how essential vans like this are for the Japanese youth stuck at home with nowhere to go on "date" night. It's kinda difficult to properly get-it-on with your noisy Gārufurendo (girlfriend in Japanese) when the walls are rice-paper thin. So a van with…

Read this http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013… and then tell me that not breaking the law magically protects you. What an insulated little utopia you must live in. Are there unicorns there?

You had me at Whit Stillman - NO SI! OTAN GO HOEM YANKEE PIGS DEERS!

With advanced timing, reed valve, 20mm+ Dellorto carb, expansion chamber and big-bore kit one of these becomes a surprisingly fast 'ped. Totally jalop if you axe me.

I looked closely and I didn't see a fixie. Unlike the dumb hipster bike of choice, this one has brakes and gears. I dig it.

+1 for being unflappable. -1 for not counter steering towards the skid. Sheesh.