Carrie Underwood is anti-mask and most likely anti-vax as well.  Remember, she’s a hardcore Catholic.  Also, her music is garbage.  I look forward to the day that she’s a footnote in the annals of country music and makes her living doing fly-by-night backwater casino tours. 

ND.  Didn’t make sense then, doesn’t make sense now. 

Subaru Crosstrek.  Just slap a turbo on it!

ND

I’ve seen a few of these on the road so far, and I think they look fine. What didn’t hit home with me until looking at all of the details in the article here is that this is a direct response to the Jeep Renegade. Including the cutesy details (the Renegade has “easter eggs” everywhere). It sounds like Ford did a…

I learned shortly after this news broke that I’m 2 degrees separated from this piece of deranged trash. A family friend regularly attended his bible study, where he was apparently viewed as the de facto “leader.” How he could square being an all-American Christian™️ with QAnon/Illuminati conspiracies is beyond me.…

I was staying with family in the same neighborhood as the shoot for CODA. I’m actually not sure how long they used that particular location, because they were setting up as I arrived, and still shooting as I left. Somebody spotted and recognized Marlee, and we were able to figure out what the project was and follow it…

This tends to be the case with just about every budget airline, with the possible exception of Southwest. I definitely had a fool-me-once-fool-me-twice experience with Frontier. Never again. When Spirit came to my airport, I didn’t even bother looking at it.

One of the most durable engines you’ll ever encounter. There are various issues with various vintages (air mass meters, etc), but for the most part, the engine will outlast every other component of the vehicle. 

Volvo redblock.

Pawn Stars was another show that I initially enjoyed.  It was a “Santa Doesn’t Exist” moment for me when I found out that the “deals” are done on what is essentially a dressed-up sound stage.  I should have known all along, because random shoppers wouldn’t be browsing around in the background.  They’d be gawking at…

Ugh... I always feared that this show would enable people like that.

I’ll admit that I fell for the siren song of this show’s formula in the early days. It actually seemed like there was a whiff of the genuine in the beginning, where they’d find some interesting items and hear some interesting stories. But the whole thing started to feel incredibly contrived after a few go-rounds. Show…

My takeaway from this fine article is that we lost something as a society when we went away from full jingles on radio/television commercials.  Somebody wrote an entire song for that corny Cutlass Supreme ad.  Nowadays, it would be replaced with some low-royalty backing music and a no-nonsense voiceover.  If anything,…

The answer is simple: that whale of a sedan would have gotten stuck in the sand. 

Knowing what I know about Cuomo, he’s not going to resign.  He will stay put until he’s constitutionally removed from office.  Stubborn as an ass. 

I’m over driving absurdly fast. I’m glad that I got it out of my system when I was younger and lived to tell the tale.  Doing 160mph sounds downright terrifying to me today, especially on a public road.

I didn’t even know that they made a low-powered TT convertible.  ND on this one because it’s not my cup of tea.  Would have gone NP if it had the bigger turbo and quattro. 

I was an insufferable manual-only purist for quite a while.  I was smug AF about the fact that I could drive a stick from the moment I got my license.  I also believed that I could drive more efficiently than automatic transmissions of the day, which was definitely true until we got into the ‘00s.  I’ve since yo-yo’d…

Sounds about white.