Here are a couple games you can play next time you and a partner are driving around town. The first: start keeping track of the different diseases for which people have ribbons stuck on the back of their car. Cancer, fibromyalgia, cervical dysplacia… there are a million of them.
The other game: slug your partner in [...]
Teen thugs appear in the landscape in neighborhoods and throughout all generations. In the 50s and 60s they were immortalized in film. James Dean and Marlon Brando. It was cool to be like those macho dudes. In reality, James Dean was a sad little gay man who slept with motion picture producers that might have helped [...]
I drive a 1995 Ford Explorer that’s doing ok, but showing it’s age. It needs a lot of maintenance now that it’s over 100 years old. I discovered I can do more repairs on my truck (and probably yours too) than what many mechanics at auto shops told me I could, thanks to sheer desire [...]
The two-day University Place Festival wrapped up on Saturday. Admission to the fun at Cirque Park was free but $1 donations were asked, with proceeds to go toward next year’s festival. Parking at the venue was also FREE. I donated $3 just to have the convenience of parking at Cirque Park rather than walking from [...]
I’ve always been fond of sports cars, back in the days I leaned towards 70s Muscle Cars. I spent most of my teens driving cars that were older then I was. But for me nothing could beat the roar of big block engine while the tires layout bellows of thick white smoke into the atmosphere. [...]
