From Hoopty Rides, a car culture blog that one of my favorite sites, Chanfles turned me onto:
Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.
Ain’t it the truth. Preach on, Mister Jalopy.
Also, he is selling [...]

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The long, slow wreck of the economy and my immersion into humanity as evidenced by working with a stupid asshole.

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Rushing to defend Rush and beating the table to hammer home his logic, Neal Boortz sticks his fist in his own mouth.

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How can one have a workplace with no actual “place”?

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I thought a follow up with the results of that clever BBC poll was in order. And the winner is…Homer Simpson. Good thing I like to live ironically.

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“As part of a unique BBC-led global debate about the USA’s place in the world, we want you to nominate your greatest American ever.”
According to CNN this morning, Homer Simpson has been nominated. I grow weary of the endless insults.

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What we’ve all known for a long time, the rest of the world is just discovering. That is the fact that Pabst Blue Ribbon is the hot, happening beer in the United States.

Attribute it to its cheepness or its fine ingredients or whatever you like, but it’s been an impending, inevitable reality for [...]

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The news is grim. A toddler, watching TV on the sofa in his apartmet suddenly lurches forward, accompanied by a loud thud. Blood poors from his head, and a perfectly round hole has been punched through the wall behind the sofa, wher the toddler’s head once was. The parents scoop him up [...]

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“the ‘self-managed’ classes negotiate themselves into lives of permanent misery.”

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I present for you an image of a classic Trader Vic’s menu. Trader Vic’s, a onetime franchise powerhouse, now only maintains a couple restaurants in the United States. Fortunately for us, one is in downtown Atlanta. While not as cool as some of the awesome “vintage” tiki bars I’ve seen on the west [...]

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This morning I heard on NPR that Tony Hawk, legendary skater and businessman, makes $250,000,000/year with his various ventures, according to ESPN’s estimates.

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From now on, refer to me as a member of the snoozeoisie.

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Here’s a nice bit of prose from a college buddy of mine. Be sure to hit MORE down there to get the full post. It has a great ending.
I went yesterday to get my TN driver’s license reinstated. Talk about
govtmental red tape and snafus. I walked into the TN motor vehicle
multipurpose building over [...]

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