This plane crash in particular could have started a forest fire. I used to live near Paso Robles. At the time, the biggest wildfire of the season was caused by a spark from a car brushing against a guardrail. That's it. It's dry there and even two pieces of metal can burn hundreds of thousands of acres.

This should have more likes. 30 creeps up quickly, 40 faster still, and 50 is going to give you whiplash (I'm not 50 yet, but I'm assuming it's true and it was necessary for making that sound snappy).

Jalopnik remains one of the pure former Gawker media products

This is like in the Baby-Sitters Club series, which I'm sure everyone here has read, when Claudia's sister Janine wasn't sure if there should be an apostrophe in the club's name and where.

That guy who voted against the bill bc Boyd turned out all right (according to him)--when I read that, I was filled with a fury so profound that my cat, here in my lap, noticed the change in me

When someone I don't care about tells me about some absolutely inconsequential problem (oh no you had to park farther away????), I have a terrible habit of saying, with a straight face, "That's a fucking tragedy."

I watched Akira and other anime from that era when I was WAY too young, but my cousins always had something interesting, living as they did near the wall in West Germany, exploring the markets of East Germany, and with a father as a spy to boot! They brought me a doll with long human hair from Russia! Wtf! So it was…

If she doesn't already have a prionic disease, she's probably not going to get one by eating a part of herself. It's mostly, but not exclusively, transmitted through an infected brain. In Papua New Guinea, men were significantly less likely to get kuru by eating an infected person because it was primarily women and…

Used a 15 year old Corolla to haul a gigantic (it seemed) U-Haul across the country—two mountain ranges—with nary a problem (in 2004). It was done in half a decade later by a rich drunk girl in Laguna Beach. Rip

The Neon was just right for tootlin' in

I was most surprised to see Lynch on the list

Winter became emancipated from her psycho stage managing mother at 14, 3 years after she was cast. Could be a factor

Her guardianship really allowed people to see past the less savory aspects of her personality. I still feel a little sorry for her, because how mature or mentally-sound would anyone be after that experience? She's still a teenager in so many ways.

Ooooh good guess! Brad Pitt immediately jumped to mind. He gets around.

Like the fact that he ate pudding with his fingers, an image seared into my mind

I say that all the time and end up sounding like an old codger, which I am because I'm quoting from a 30-year-old television show

It’s the surprised duckface combined with that ridiculous cup he always carries performatively. (“Oh, this? I’m surprised you noticed it! It’s totally nothing, I doubt you’d be interested, but if you insist I guess it's only fair to explain the blaring symbolism of it!") I read his explanation for the cup, something…

Conversely, my ex-husband refused to maintain following distance in town because "someone always cuts in front of me". Well, yeah, and you had time to brake! Because of his "gawly gor" reasoning, he was constantly slamming on the brakes to avoid hitting the car in front of us. 

WHAT

This article was superb.