I grew up just North of that area (Rancho Bernardo) and this does not surprise me at all. The air traffic in SD is staggeringly awesome. One time I was hanging with some friends at a cliff-top park near the beach up in Oceanside (stone’s throw to Camp Pendleton) and a helicopter climbed right up the face of cliff in…

We owned a 2007 Toyota Yaris and opted for the manual, which came with the worst package known to man. Literally, we had manual side mirrors. You know how hard it is to adjust the passenger side mirror when one driver is 6’0” and the other is 5’3”? Answer: Stupidly hard.

We bought a Subaru Forester 2.5i Premium (which is a fine package), but not offering the XT with a manual is a huge mistake. They already mate up that engine with a MT for the BRZ... come on now.

If you are young enough to need a ride to the game from someone’s parents, you can make a catch with a glove and keep it. 13 - 16 may seem like a gray area, but if you’re chilling with your parents involuntarily, you get to keep what you catch.

This gets all of the Richard Grieco’s thumbs ups.

Video or it didn’t happen!!!

Hi CJ,

I think coolest collection is a different topic. Coolest celebrity that is a car collector... I don’t have any personal experience with a celebrity being cool about awesome cars, so I guess my vote is no one.

Maybe Adam Carolla, because I think he seems like a cool dude. I argue someone random like Troy Tulowitzski is…

Roger is clearly number 1, if for nothing else other than the LSD episodes. The trumpet cigarette reactions are epic.

Harry Crane is way too high. I’ll take Megan Draper’s two sexy dance scenes over Harry Crane’s entire body of fat annoying work.

Seinfeld < Clarkson
Dempsey = May
Schmitz > Hammond

A lucky man, who is very very good at what he does. Certainly has the chops behind the wheel, has that deviant behavior streak that we all want to act upon, and still comes across as professional and knowledgeable.

Those high speed slides in unison... my god.

I never knew about these things as a kid, but when I was 16 and could convince my grandfather to let me borrow his Grand National for a spin around town, the experience would not have been complete without lag and spooling noises, knowing you were about to disappear from the car beside you.

Sure, lag isn’t good for…

I wonder how the flight pattern is affected at a lower speed, say 90 mph, or whatever the average starter's velocity is. As an ex-pitcher, seam grip is really important for the feel of your pitches so lowering them may affect not only affect the movement, but your command. If the ball still comes out of the hand the…

Illegally jay-walking on a residential street... no sir. This is not a commercial area with stop lights, cross-walks, businesses, nor heavy foot traffic. This appears to be a neighborhood, and should be treated as such. The bike and the Atom are clearly being hooligans and endangering themselves and other people on…

Dodge M4S.

I read, "I am of substance" as "I am off substances" the first time. Which... maybe that's the ultimate difference?

Not the rug, man.

But boat shoes are cool. Love it.

1991 Toyota 4Runner. My parents bought it new in 1991 and it was redesigned, had a V6, the SR5 package... and was ridiculously slow. This truck was super heavy, incredibly under powered, had terrible weak brakes. The clutch was super soft and squishy and felt like you were burning it up any time you even touched dirt.

If you're writing a beer blog, you're spreading the word of beer. Secondly, I'm saying you should work on your comparisons, like, because yours don't make sense. Coming off as lazy or misinformed is probably not your goal.