Raphael's pining for 1940s to 1950s America...that's terrifying.
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Hah! That's me, kind of. I wear a Ferrari hat when I drive my Miata. Usually to cover up my hair, if I'm going to grab breakfast on a weekend and I haven't taken a shower yet.
To be fair, I always enjoy a good "dumb street racing incident" story... as long as the teller fully understands that it was dumb, and tell the story with an appropriate amount of shame.... Of course, these are not the droids you are talking about.
Honest question — do you think I do this as a hobby? Like, I filmed 17 videos and wrote 25 different 1,000-word columns about the car for fun? I am a freelance writer, I have dozens of clients, Jalopnik is one of them, the car is registered to my freelance writing business, and I bought it for the sole purpose of…
How much did Volvo pay you for these series of articles? Maybe an exclusive with the new XC90?
Let me run this excellent writeup through the Jalopnik Moronically Ridiculous Headline-a-tron Creator:
You are out of touch with reality. I love it. Do you dude.
So... yes?
Six years ago my then 3 year old son saw the Santa version of the snowman pan in the catalog and asked me to get it. I did because I was 7 months pregnant and felt guilty about this being his last Christmas without a sibling. WORST DECISION. First, the fancy ass decorations in the catalog were done with fruit…
This is my favorite thing you write all year. The pathos, the whip-saw between guilt and desire, the bone deep self-loathing of comfortable white liberals. Soooo Good. fuck, I gotta go jerk off.
There was a Roush 427R Mustang and trees involved.
Hallelujah!
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!
Oh, I thought of a minor one I could share...
My email is matt@jalopnik.com if you want to share more of these stories.
to play the devils advocate. I was once working in the public relations department of a european automaker. One of my jobs was to manage the press fleet and schedule all the vehicles to various journalists.
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Mine aren't really embarrassing, more just fun I probably shouldn't have been having. Bill Caswell here (Issues with personal Kinja account). Like when I "borrowed" a Focus ST for 7 hours and blew off the launch dinner and went to Monaco. http://jalopnik.com/5922133/ford-f… The other journalist that I was paired with…
Rolled it.