not saying the price isn’t insane but the article notes that the watch is 1.88 mm thick. may have something to do with it

You and I have remarkably similar comments, but my dad’s was guards’ red. Cheers.

My dad owned a slightly lowered/stiffened 914 with fuel injection and the white leather interior. I was supposed to get it when I turned 25 but I made the choice to sell it to pay for a tiny slice of college, and in retrospect I almost certainly would have died in it if not for that choice. I’m 35 now and I still…

It’s funny, so many of these tomes are better the second time through. They fly by and for some reason, I find myself able to just sit back and savor them more, and (occasionally) skim the bits that drag. Maybe more than occasionally. But only because I’m looking forward to the next part.

Oh man. The Part about the Crimes... I can still barely talk about it. 2666 is way up there on my list of favorite books, but those three hundred-odd pages (good lord) of blunt, businesslike atrocity are possibly the most affecting reading experience of my life.

What kind of stuff do you put on your apocalyptic playlists? I only ask because I have a similar habit/fascination w the apocalyptic.

My partner and I were driving up from Oakland and inadvertently got stuck in the thick of this nonsense all the way up the 5 and into central Oregon. Some of the drivers were fairly conscientious (mostly the Porsche drivers, which didn’t surprise me for some reason), but several of the Lamborghinis and McLarens were…