It’s Monday. It’s New Year’s Eve. And it’s snowing like a 1988 top-loader VCR with a broken tracking knob. Needless to say, focus is hard to come by in an office on a day like this. But that doesn’t mean … Continue reading
The Hobbit debuted earlier this month, renewing a time-honored Christmas tradition: waiting another year for the next Lord of the Rings movie. I saw An Unexpected Journey twice and enjoyed it more the second time – when I wasn’t so … Continue reading
I am a praying man, but I duly confess that on the bleak and storm-wrought midnight of Thursday the twentieth of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, a prayer was not the first thing to exit … Continue reading
It’s not that Santa isn’t real. Saint Nicholas was a very real person, indeed, and he really did give gifts to children. It’s just that he’s dead. Sorry to break the news to you, but it happened almost 1700 years … Continue reading
It’s no secret that Lincoln is dying. Ford’s luxury brand has been bleeding money since the Panther platform Towncar, Lincoln’s top seller, was discontinued. Now Lincoln is spending all of their energy just bailing water from their sinking ship.
If you’re a fan of gangster movies or one of the 13,762 crime dramas currently airing on network television, you’ve likely seen the “silencer,” that magical cylinder screwed onto the end of a gun barrel to change the boom boom … Continue reading
That staccato rattling you would hear when riding around corners in my 2002 WRX wagon was not a German machine gun. It was my wheel, bouncing off the pavement, no longer held there by the force of the struts. The … Continue reading
Given $500,000, what car would you buy? Most of us already have an answer in mind, and it’s often a mid-engine, European supercar. Many will chant “458 Italia,” “Aventador,” or “McLaren 12C!”
If you live along one of America’s active fault lines, it’s never nice to wake up to the ground bumping and surging like those adorable twin babies dancing in their high chairs on Youtube. But if you’re from an older, … Continue reading
