Nothing against Lenny Kravitz, but during “In Memoriam,” every cutaway to him playing the basic piano chords as his sang was time for another few faces. In fact, his song was repetitive enough that he could have added a whole extra bar.

Headline writer: a “high” is a countable noun. It should read “fewer highs” not “less highs.” You can say, “I was less high than my friend because I snorted less cocaine” because ‘cocaine’ is uncountable. 

Hattie, why is “Strange World” being labeled as a PIXAR film? This is a Disney release. These are two distinct animation companies.

Key & Peele nailed it with their sketch about two guys who love Anne Hathaway (and Sandra Bullock!) and can’t understand all the hate.

100% agree about the dull political openers. Re-watching episodes from the Obama years with Fred Armisen (who is brilliant, but whose Obama was as dull as they get) sitting on a desk talking to the camera for the first 8 minutes of the show was awful. It was easiest just to skip past them. So much time and energy…

I’m a Portlander. The “People’s Convoy” is a bunch of clowns. Whoever discharged a weapon in the middle of Portland deserves whatever legal repercussions are coming to them. BUT—throwing stuff off an overpass into moving traffic is deadly serious. Kids or not, I cannot waive off that kind of behavior. It can kill (as,…

This pickup looks like fun, and I appreciate the styling as much as virtually any new car today. My concern with the Rivian is my concern with virtually every 21st century car: will these be servicable in 40 - 50 years? In the year 2071, will a Rivian still be carrying hay or hauling goats on a farm, as old trucks…

agreed

Just to bypass the very passionate comments below about brass and plastic expansion, as well as people’s thoughts on Elon or TESLA cars, I want to revisit the fundamental point of this article: a sensitive car part was designed with little protection and was NOT DESIGNED FOR REPAIR. I don’t care if it’s a car or a…

THANK YOU, Jason! The ‘04 TDI Jetta Wagon is the only car I’ve ever bought new off the lot, and still it sits, at 225K now and still getting 45 MPG and hauling children, dogs, plywood, or anything else I ask it to with no fuss. I’ve washed it by hand hundreds of times, and while it never feels beautiful, it has a…

The modern world does nothing but try to make things “easier” by placing some technology between me and some simple piece of work that needs to be done. Quite often, I appreciate it; I don’t really want to hoist that garage door up by hand. But the manual transmission is my human interaction between the engine and the…

Billie Eilish is an interesting singer, but her secret weapon is Finneas, her brother, co-writer, and producer. They are literally putting these tracks together in the bedroom of the home they grew up in. STILL. So whatever they are, it really is them; their sound isn’t being managed and manipulated. They deserve the…

Autonomous vehicles are certainly in our future, and I see more pros than cons. But what will stop a person from climbing on top of one of these, or a skateboarder holding onto one for a free ride?

As a teen in the late 80's, I bought this very model (‘77 Mustang II) with the 4-cylinder & manual trans. The leather interior was very nice. The car itself was very slow. We had a neighbor who collected old Mustangs and I loved to visit and let him show them off, so I briefly supposed that at 17 I’d just bought…

Wait, no E.T.? Tell me how they got that finger to glow.

Seattle Craigslist will bring up a few of these from a via-Canada importer.

This article is exactly right. I live in Portland and have worked my fair share of coffee jobs where the finest qualities of coffee were explored and debated. But at home, as grown-ups, my wife and I use a cheap coffee machine with a paper filter and we buy pre-ground Folgers in a big tub at Costco. Guess what? IT’S…

Recycled uncomfortable iron seats are an important factor.

20 years ago, living in Japan, I took a train to meet a seller and bought one of these scooters, then drove it 100 miles back to the town I was living in. It was winter. The scooter worked fine, and the cargo rack on the back made it the closest thing to a truck my friends and I had.

In national meetings with oil guys and automakers, there may well be a bunch of misinformation about how costly and cumbersome electrical power storage and delivery is and will always be in transportation, and about how fuel efficiency standards are “killing” the American auto industry. In those cases, I’d be pleased…