They probably punched in past it to get it out of frame

Drive All Night would be good too.

here's mine... best dog ever

Almost the exact same thing happened to me a couple years ago (right down the breeds). My border collie very nearly didn't make it, but is fine now. I never got fully repaid from the other dog's owner, though he did make an effort initially. I did report it to animal control (after consulting deadspin, actually)…

They haunt this dusty beach road

I once had a woman ask if her toddler could pet my (extremely cute) dog, who is terrified of children. I politely declined, saying something like, "Sorry, she's really shy." The woman stared daggers at me for a moment, then turned to face her kid and loudly said, "Well, I guess this is a good lesson for you Timmy…

Two-Hearted became my favorite beer during a time when I lived in Minneapolis, but isn't available in Portland, OR, where I live now. I occasionally order a six-pack or two from this place: wineandcheesestore.com. It's expensive to have it shipped, but worth it. Even in Portland nothing can quite compare, at least…

It's not fiction, but Devil in the White City is awesome and would be a fun and/or terrifying read for someone who just moved to Chicago.

I too have a wonderfully lazy border collie

I was actually at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, OR, getting ready to head home after a summer league baseball game (I remember our catcher shouting, "They're chasing OJ on the freeway!" as I was getting in my car, and listening to it live on the radio all the way home). It was weird because last week one night…

I very rarely smoke weed, but last time I did it was alone one night in my apartment. I got really high and then just went to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, I discovered that I actually hadn't gone right to sleep after all — I'd completely rebuilt a Citroen cylinder head that I'd had sitting on my dining room…

Or Portland. I encounter more of 'em in one week here than I did in seven years in NYC.

I work in the photo department at a newspaper and one day got a call from a man who was furious that we'd run "that photo of Dick Cheney getting shot at the dinner table." For a moment I thought I'd missed some major news, but eventually realized that he was talking about this editorial cartoon. I tried to explain…

I got some flack for suggesting this in Drew's "daughter's crazy christmas list" post, but a well-trained border collie can actually help raise the kids (and they're really easy to train). Then again, I don't have kids. I do have a border collie, though. They are extremely cute puppies:

Why not just go all the way and hit 'em with the full-on 10th Avenue Freeze-Out? Works every time!

Ooh, that's true, outdoor work in the cold is no fun. Maybe you can limp it along until warms up a bit? The tranny itself shouldn't weigh much, so I'd worry more about how to support the engine once it's detached as far as that goes. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

If you can work on suspension, you can do a clutch. It won't be much fun on a transverse-engined car, but you can handle it. Dive right in. And when it gets to be clutch time on your M3, you'll be loving the fact that it's rear-wheel drive (once you get past the always-obnoxious step of removing the exhaust, heh).

Agreed, and I'd even take it a step further and say learning to work on your own car, at least a little bit. Just being able to do brakes alone will save you quite a bit of money. I've done all my own maintenance since I was about 18 and not only has it saved me thousands over the years, but it's allowed me to own…

Oh, THAT guy. I guess I never really registered his actual name. Isn't "famous" kind of pushing it?