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Mar18
Letting Wednesday’s blog be the preamble, let’s get right into it — starting with the greatest decade ever for cinematic car chases.
1970s
This. Was. The. DECADE. For movie car chases! The hard part is choosing the best from the best decade. They were all some of the greatest car chase movies of all time. Think Vanishing Point, Smokey and the Bandit, McQ, White Lightning, The Driver, and Mad Max. The French Connection contained what many consider to be the greatest single car chase scene of all time. But…
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Mar16
Car chases, chief! No one ever says the car chase was better in the book. And they’re usually pretty lame when they happen in real life, too. Nope, car chases are for the movies. In fact, one of the very first movies with a narrative centered around “the chase.”
1903: The Great Train Robbery
Why do you think it’s such a tradition for directors to yell “ACTION!” when they start filming? Well, it could have something…
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Mar11
Behold the noble TrabantMy first car was a Nissan Sunny California, a station wagon designed and conceived by people who thought only in straight lines and sharp angles. It was ugly, it was temperamental, and the accelerator pedal appeared to be coupled to the engine by way of wishful thinking, or perhaps a particularly unmotivated receptionist prone to dropping calls. Put under any strain at all — which was not often; the car would…
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Mar09
Women and cars, chief: the two greatest topics known to man. And today this blog is dedicated to both. You’re welcome.
International Women’s Day was yesterday, which strikes me as odd seeing as how women make up more than half the population and get only one lousy day. You’d think they’d get just over half the year — like spring, summer, and one week of fall. I know my lady takes up more than half our bedroom with all her stuff. But that’s neither here nor there.
Decades before…
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Mar04
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and so is money. But you’re wasting both if you don’t maintain your car. I mean it’s just a no-brainer to maintain ’er.
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Apologies. That was unprofessional. Let’s get into it before I get the urge to rhyme again.
Last time I wrote about…
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