I had a 96 S-10 as my first car and I loved it. It needed a fair amount of work to keep it running (mainly a new radiator) when we sold it but if it was a stick shift I would probably still have it. I still miss it from time to time.

This is my recommendation — get a pickup and figure out how to sleep in the back! Stay at campgrounds for facilities. Try not to get something too big, since Sister is going to get it afterwards as her first car, but it’s Texas and they like ‘em big down there, so she might as well learn sooner than later.

This article has stuck with me for decades, for how cleverly observed and written it was (and continues to be):

It’s very good for playing covers. 

The part that I’m laughing at is, even a HS coach knows where the bad guys are.. and yet... the police don’t?.. and arrest the coach and not the cartel?

Looking forward to when they exceed the current time (I’m have faith that they’ll accurately predict the fashions of the future.) Crossing my fingers that the bizarre fashion in Back to the Future 2 are simply delayed a decade or two...

This was not a “seemingly good action.” This was an assault. The solution (though not a good one) is to call the police if someone is being harassed in your neighborhood. The young lady’s mother should have called the police if she thought her daughter was being assaulted, not run house-to-house looking for a posse to…

He’s lucky he died in the shootout. Survivers typically only do so temporarily and their deaths are usually much more brutal. The cartel doesn't play. I doubt his friend will last long in prison.

God, just the mention of B&O gives me PTSD flashbacks to the days of vinyl (the REAL days of vinyl) when “audiophile” weenies would circle jerk each other about their turntables...

Those are cool. I cannot wait for the YouTube video of someone building a version using spare parts and old plywood. 

For the grays:

Great, now I’m going to have dreams about a pair of drunken aliens chasing a tiny hula dancer.

Clearly his problem is more money than taste. We really shouldn’t enable him.

Remember Rita absolutely praising that super weird video Chet made of himself speaking patois? It would have been so easy to just not say anything 

I mean they already arrested him. Plus it turns out his boss’s boss (I don’t know how it works in the military but like a brigadier general or some shit) is a Black dude who seems VERY pissed.

And in her home land, her name is Diana, and she’s a Princess.

I imagine Tom pulls out the ‘ol “life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Rita hard rolls her eyes, slugs her third glass of wine, and wryly comments, “We should have named him Wilson.”

I am absolutely dying to know what they think of this.

She’s Diana, princess of Themyscira, so...

And she *was* a princess so her actual name was Princess Diana...