the bigger they are...

The first of the three has fallen and is well along the way to being a glorified distributor state-side of once-great italian crap-machines. (that's right- i said it: Modern Fiats are the automotive equivalent of a knock-knock joke told by a stutterer)

(que up the WIllie Nelson: Blue Skies)


Okay... lets do this.

GM is elliminating not just the model but the WHOLE FUCKING BRAND of cars that my company actually currently supplies hyrbid batteries for. It could work out...

While GM is hacking off limbs, my favorite domestic auto brand will not be spared.

(Delbert McClinton: Had a Real Good Time)

Dozens of manufacturing plants, dozens of suppliers, 10's of thousands of jobs gone, remaining wages slashed, benefits slashed...

An entire industry devistated; A city on the edge, dealt a death blow.


What happened here?


(Hold Steady: Lord I'm discouraged)


On the otherhand, while i'm sitting here at work, waiting for someone to hand me a box and point me to the parking lot, i can't communicate with my supplier in Mexico. Because they're closed. Because of that pig virus. Yes, it's fun to watch it spread like a beautiful crystaline structure forming over the the surface of a sphere, but i'm pretty sure its NOT going to wipe us all out. Not this time.

What the fuck are we supposed to do here?

What I'm going to do is go home and continue the training (when the swelling goes down in my foot). I'm going to do some pull ups and water the plants. I'm going to build my $500 race car and i'm going to race it. You're all invited to come watch it all fall apart. There'll be plenty of beers.

a different kind of pretty

Eventually, Detroit will be a giant, overgrown wilderness centrally located with plenty of river front property.

I'm excited to see it happen. The thought nature reclaiming the blown out abyss is soothing and helps distract from the economic meltdown and, you know, bloody, violent fire-bombing riots that will surely follow.

I've decided to invest in fancy cars and tattoos, which reminds me, Recent conversations have left me thinking about tattoos again. This obviously leads to looking at pictures of tattoos, which almost always leads to pictures of girls with tattoos.

They look something like this:











Wow. Seriously. A woman with another woman tattooed on her? It'd be like an instant threesome!

And, then, maybe something for myself...

The internet is the only one that really loves me

proof: I love Russians




Proof: I hate fucking hipsters


Proof: Steve McQueen. (Apparently if you put the traditionally bad-ass Irish "Mc" in front of your name, it nullifies the pussy-ness of it, even if it is "Queen")

+3 Skill

This week i purchased a welder. It can fit in a back pack, runs off household power and looks like this:



and the details can be found here


Here is what you should now about this purchase:

1) I've always wanted to be capable of joining metal and now i have the technology
2) Arc (or Stick welding) is harder than mig welding but the equipment is cheaper
3) The product was mis-marked in the store -$30 so i got it at an unintended discount
4) The whole set-up, welder, auto-darkening mask, rods, hammer, and beefed up electrode holder together was like 200 bones.
5) The reason this stuff was so cheap is China
6) The Welder box and all it's contents smell SEVERELY of dead fish.

That's right, the welder, the power cord, the instructions... all reek of fish. (You win again China)


Now i will endeavor on the self-taught welding process. remember kids: make small circles, watch out for sun burn and be sure you're getting good penetration.

This shit ain't game cousin

Everyone needs a pick me up from time to time.

I was a little sore that i didn't witness a personal transformation from mild-mannered-jabroni to rock-god-super-man-amongst-Norwegian-super-skanks from any of you blow hards out there after watching the video posted below.


I was really hoping to change lives.

Are you ready for rock in roll?

I assume because most of you (myself included) are no long what we'd consider "young" and for the most part are pretty much just wandering though life, you probably seek direction, curious ultimately, how should YOU go about living YOUR life? What am I doing here? WHAT THE FUCK IS NEXT?

I give you the answer: become this man. BECOME A GOD! (Also, get a motorcycle)



"I didn't come here to fuckin save whales" (so to speak)


Look: The SYSTEM IS BROKEN. Unfortunately, I do not have the answers. But what i do know, is that more complicated laws, more levels of bureaucracy and more idiots thinking they DO know the answer, leads to greater success at FURTHER BREAKING of the system!

(why is everyone yelling?)


Finally, a PETITION to stop these people before it's too late!


a quick shout out to roommates gone by

Now if you'll excuse, my young bride awaits:

cincinnati two step

(you know what they say about guys with big feet? they have big shoe collections)

hold the line

I think Detroit may be fucked.

These types of things: I think they're going to become more common.

Here's a fun game: find your own exmaples in any media outlet. (If you're looking for the Detroit Newspaper, they don't do home delivery anymore, so not there)



I think there is badness coming down the pipe.

cars are fun

...and if you're doing it right (which is mostly wrong), expensive

it's been a while since we played this game

St. Pat's Day ten "out of tens":

The Cult "Fire Woman" 8/10
Whiskey in the Jar, Hamtramck: "8/10"
Woodies, Royal Oak: "3/10"
Angst-filled 38 yr old virgins "1/10"
Dude who wants to fight "5/10"
"Did that girl just pull her pants down in public?" 10/10
Being labeled "sexy motorcycle guy" 9/10
Being labeled "guy who plays bad music" 3/10
Rubbery cock-ring-esg Bud Light LED "ring" 10/10
Cold ride home at 3am; back to work by 8am: 0/10

Murder is on the Menu

Okay look. 12 years ago this episode of Space Ghost was literally the funniest thing i had ever seen and probably accounts for 30% of my views on hilarity. And as it turns out... it's still just as funny.



(is that where i got all these ideas? Because they're brilliant)

sigh

Seriously. Why is everyone fucking shooting everyone else?

OMGWTFBBQ?

Also, I've been doing some side work. I don't know, I let this guy who hangs out in his van behind the gas station take some pictures... you can check it out on my new webpage.


Another weekend, another Adventure. I'll catch you cats on the flip side of madness...

for your entertainment

more dribble

Detroit: This is not going to fix itself anytime soon.

Also, Watchmen the movie. I recommend it. (don't bring any school girls with you; Just take my word on this one.)

what's your eigen value?

i've seen these numbers... i think there have been too many liberties taken with the phenomenonalogical constants of adjustment, but i'm willing to conduct a field field study; Maybe we can solve this intrinsically.

Check it

this picture is specatular. It's as if the GM sedan were going to swallow that MG.



It's form the coverage of the latest Lemons race, down in Texas. The same race that inspired Mike and I to jam some more on the race car. Updates here, but short story, the engine runs now and the suspension is coming together. We still have a major gap in the brakes and wheels departments but i can't wait to terrorize the streets during the shake down process.

just try

try to fucking comprehend this scene:






Does your insanity still need maximum-radicalness to the power of extreme? Then i give you physics and naked girls:




(of course the hot one has Maxwell's equations... double-E WHAT!)



Now, go take a nap to relax your brain

this is going to get linky

First, a reflection on where it is we're going and why we're trying to get there:



I got about 10 of these knocked out, working on the rest.


I had a link to a great article about the actual moves that caused the great dissolve of economic wealth, but with some mild reflection it didn't really seem to matter how we got here. So i omitted it. I do secretly want to see a farm on the White House Lawn, though.

People torching luxury cars as a way to protest their own lack of wealth? This is why we can't have nice things.

Pornographers going to federal prison for being pornographers? Good thing no one is buying that smut.


It's all a bit too serious.

This is funny. Also, try some of this right here


"Your floral offering serves as no deterrent to the inevitable, betrayer.

You will now join me in oblivion."

Classy

REAL classy. Like old-Italian-guys-and-70's-Cadillac-classy:

(I've been on this music kick. Deal with it)



i wish i could have found the full version by The Platters.

Fuck all this noise, Silent Bob

"Damn you 2009. You sound so futuristic but I still feel like a barbarian in the Dark Age. (It could be the warrior hair.)"

I can relate to this guy

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She's just so... white.

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(What the fuck is this "embedding disabled by request" shit? Sounds like the work of the WHITE DEVIL! see the video here.)

And did ya notice? She makes the back guy ride in the back? I'm just sayin..


Unlike the Billy Idol video discussed earlier, this is one of those cases where you THINK you like a song, and THEN you see the video.

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Today i rolled over 20,000 hits on this blog. Of course, that's accounted for by only about 7 unique people. Kudos to you.