If your like me, you have something that really pisses you off. Some part of everyday life that most folks might take in stride, but for some reason it irritates the hell out of you. I have a special peeve, and if I were to become world dictator, look out! I’m talking about one of the banes of modern life, the speed bump. Those things are in every parking lot, every apartment complex, and somehow have escaped onto the public streets. Irritating pieces of crap that do nothing whatsoever but bother whoever has to drive thru their domain, and that is damn near everywhere.  Ya wonder why some folks just snap, take some poor bastard who is stressed to the max, he  hits one of those things  leaving Costco, having spent the last of his meager funds on a 20lb sack of rice, then  tears the exhaust out of his 20 year old Corolla as his shot shocks bottom out on the obstacle course decreed  by who knows what faceless corporate lackey to desecrate the parking lot until the end of  time and/or end of private transportation for us all..…” he was so nice, I don’t know why snapped.” When I become dictator for life, one of the first decrees…besides being on all the money, and the stamps, all that good stuff, will be that every speed bump is knocked down. Maybe we can turn a few of them into jumps! Ok, I’m back to earth now. No ‘El Presidente for life’, no decrees, no stamps, no jumps, No Lambo’s….sigh…..back to the video editing salt mines!

As many of you know, or have sort of figured out, I’m a political person. Which in my case, in itself, is ‘politically incorrect’. There are those who think that I’m supposed to be the proverbial ‘brain dead slut’ and at the appropriate times I certainly do “shut up and suck.” I also get to use my cyber soap box to talk politics, and that’s what I’m about to do right now……..

Have you seen the Nissan polar bear commercial?  If you haven’t, here it is, take another look at it before  you read further-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeEVkhTutY Its been out for a little while now, and I think I saw one of its first runs.  I thought, “ya know, this is so cool, yes it’s a bit corny, and not entirely accurate (more on that in a moment), but it triggers emotions  and thoughts, you know, maybe to think about what is happening to the planet, energy conservation, etc, this is  so powerful, that the noisy far right rabble who apparently want us back in the bronze age or something, are going to  bash this big time.”  So I went to the leader of the Republican party’s site, the one and only Rush Limbaugh, and sure enough, the  shallow, lying buffoon bashed Nissan for not one, but two days in a row. Wow, the Flintstone  set must be really worried about this one, huh? Ready or not, here’s my take on this whole deal.

First off, electric cars are not really ready for prime time yet. There needs to be  a huge breakthrough in battery design. Batteries need to become far smaller, far lighter, and much more efficient at holding a charge. In addition, we need to build a true  national energy grid. Even if we could get the Rush Limbaugh/tea party set to grow brains, it would still take time and the national will to create the energy grid we need, not to mention building the infrastructure to put together the proper  combination of wind, solar, and yes, nuclear energy to make a true conversion to electrical powered vehicles a reality. But..it COULD be done. And, what IS  important here, are the baby steps necessary to get to this point. How far along would we be if the Wright Brothers were told, “no we need jets first”. Or  Henry Ford got, “you need to create Boss 302 Mustangs before we invest in you.” Progress is a never ending event, and you have to start somewhere. While not the first electric car, Nissan made designing, building, and marketing  the worlds first practical, cost effective, mass produced  electric automobile a priority, and they succeeded in a magnificent way. Yes, I know all about the negatives, and can argue both sides of this issue fairly well. But the argument of the drooling cretins, the childish simplistic Limbaugh vomited nonsense, what the “let’s drill/global climate change is an evil UN plot to enslave America” crowd says as they slam Nissan, the total denial of what is happening weather and climate wise, tell me how useful  this point of view is for solving anything!  God, can’t half of the country EVER be helpful? The answer is “no, they can’t”. This commercial is well done, it tugs at ones heartstrings, it puts climate change, endangered species and clean energy all at the center of ones thought process in just a few seconds,  and then suggests  one  possible remedy, what is so wrong with that  Rush?  And if it will help sell some of these cutting edge vehicles  for Nissan, I say more power to them. Of course, all of those things are   an anathema to Rush Limbaugh and his flock of zombies. Climate change?? An evil liberal plot! Endangered species? Never happens! Clean energy? “Drill baby drill!”  Its really a bit scary that the country is so incredibly polarized, and its sleazebags like Limbaugh who have had a big hand in this situation.  I really do not like to think bad thoughts and project ill will towards anyone, but  there are some folks out there that make my live and let live motto hard to live by nowadays.

There was a time in my life when, to quote the old expression, I was “footloose and fancy free.” Moving from place to place, living like a tumbleweed, moving everything I owned in the back of a buddies pick-up truck….or in the trunk of a big Buick, for that matter. Then, of course, I grew up…a little bit anyway. Nowadays, and I don’t know about you, but personally, I do not like to move.  It’s a pain in the ass, stressful, and not very productive. As a recent veteran of not one, but two cross country moves, I know from whence I speak.  But now, we are hearing that this is the “new reality”. You see, now that we are losing our houses and our jobs, we are supposed to become a nation of vagabonds. Blowing like the wind, criss-crossing the country for that minimum wage job, what fun!! And  that wage might get even more minimum if that jolly bunch of candidates who want the minimum wage repealed have their way. We are to embrace homelessness, poverty  and job hunting across the land as the “new America”. I see a revival of rusted out old  Buick’s coming soon,  the inevitable websites “how to live out of your trunk”, “rest stop showering 101”, “10 best ways to raid McDonald dumpsters”. And folks actually wonder why China is cleaning our clocks right now.

Of course, what is now  a ‘problem’ of too many houses might be getting fixed in an unforeseen way. Just the other day a man’s house burned to the ground because he did not pay the 75 dollar surcharge to the fire department. His local fire department watched it burn down. And Glen Beck says its ok. Again, this is a another coming attraction  of a possible American future.  Beck says, and I quote “he did not pay the tax, so for the fire department to put out the fire would have meant that he would have been sponging off of his neighbors.”  Boy, wouldn’t it be nice to have this excuse for a human being as your neighbor! Apparently, going from door to door BEGGING for money  to pay hospital bills, which this bottom feeding  troll actually says is how to pay for your wife’s open heart surgery is NOT sponging off of your neighbors. Can’t say we are not being warned. This is the future, we are seeing it unfold before our eyes. A future where a very tiny percentage have it all, and the rest of the population are slaves to their whims. No safety net, no minimum standards,  no restrictions on business at all, a dog eat dog, Darwinian survival of the fittest society, and as for the rest “I’ve got mine, and  as for the rest of you, you can just go FUCK YOURSELF.”  Don’t believe me? Check out  some of the links below. See who founded the Tea Party and what they stand for and want.  By the way, I personally hope that the homeowners insurance company sues the almighty shit out of that fire department of Obion County, which they probably are going to do! I know there is another side to this story and all of that. There always is. That is not the point, it’s not about “I can explain, see it’s about the revenue stream, bla bla.” If we have truly gotten to the point where we will allow a family’s house to burn down because of the almightly fucking dollar, we have really come to a very ugly place.

On a much lighter note, we went to our local racetrack Saturday night. Nothing really too special was going on, except the Winged Sprint cars  and the mini sprints were there, along with a few of the regular local classes. The stands were almost full, the weather was perfect and the racing was great. I don’t think we spent more than 30 bucks for everything, including admission. There are a lot worse ways to spend a Saturday night, I had almost forgotten how much fun going to the local races can be.  With few exceptions  wherever you might happen to live, you have one of these slices of Americana not too terribly far away, and if they are still racing this season, get out and check it out soon before ya start freezing your ass off.  If not, find out where it is, and go support it in 2011!

Gotta run now, ttyl:) Bye for now……..

http://theweek.com/article/index/206405/the-billionaire-koch-brothers-tea-party-puppetmasters

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?printable=true

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html

The Who at Woodstock

I have a problem with my radio station. Its not what you might think, I love their music, and their reception is great…they are just  a bit delusional!  Ok, allow me to explain…..Most of you who know me know I’m  an old head-banger from way back.  No, I was not at Woodstock, I wonder if you add up all the folks who have said “I was there”, it would probably fill the whole fucking state of NY, don’t ya think?  But I haveseen many of the legends of Rock and Roll perform live, have a whole shitload of classic 33 LP’s, and still get to concerts reasonably regularly. And generally  havethe local station 99.7, i.e. 98 Rock blaring. And there seems to be some sort of collective mental zombification there that decrees that Metallica is “the greatest rock band of all time”.  Lets see, how can I put this delicately..” Dudes and Chicks, you guys are SOOO full of crap on this one, the greatest Rock band of all time is….. The Who!!!”

The Who (The early days)

Now we all know what opinions are, and  the generation x,  y, z, whoever is running the mikes there at any particular moment there are certainly entitled to their opinion. But , as has been often said, “ While you are certainly entitled to your OPINON, you are NOT entitled to your FACTS.”  And the facts about the very talented Metallicabeing greater..and yes that is a very subjective word, I grant you that…greater then the Legendary, Immortal,  Who, simply do not add up, lets take a look, shall we?

First off, you havegot to give points for longevity, and consider this, the Who was formed in 1964. That is 46 years ago!!! Forty Six years!!!! Haveyou even been alive that long???  There is a fair chance you have not. These guys were making music when you were sucking on your momma’s tit!  Certainly beats that  other outfit we are talking about here, who came together in 1981. And by the time the aforementioned 80’s rolled around and  the newbie’s did come on the scene, there was a well hewn path for them to follow. We can all agree that spectacular lighting, smoke, ear splitting decibels, and tremendous band movement, jumping, running, etc are part of the staple of virtually all  rock bands, its part of the concert experience, right?  And of course…. The scream….as in what probably is the greatest song of all time “Won’t get fooled again.” And who INVENTED all of this?  Who blazed the trail for Eddie van Halen, David Lee Roth, Axle Rose, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Carmine Appice, Bruce Dickerson, Lindsey Buckingham,  Eddie Vetter, Angus, and so many more…oh, and Lars Ulrich and his guys?  Why, that would be The Who…..that’s who!  (I could not resist). Rodger Daultry and Peter Townshead along withthe late, great Keith Moon  literally blazed the trail of the modern concert performance, and speaking of concerts, they stole the show at the greatest concert of all time, the aforementioned Woodstock.  They had THE greatest performance at THE greatest concert of all time!! So….they literally invented the modern rock concert, and put on the best performance at the quintessential definition of the  phrase “rock concert”. That alone would be enough to qualify for “greatest of all time”. But we are just getting started here.

 They have sold over 100 million albums, Dozens of #1’s, numerous Platinum albums, etc.  “Liveat Leeds” might well be the best live album of all time.  The rock opera “Tommy” by itself is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, I can still remember the Goosebumps I got the first time I ever heard it.  They have put out countless hits, that we not only know by heart, but are used anywhere and everywhere, from elevator music to commercials, movies, they  have become part of our very culture..think the opening of any of the CSI series and you’ll get what I mean.  And who has not heard and used the phrase “Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss”? The Who was one of the early inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990….Metallica was inducted in 2009, btw.  So here we are in 2010…and this year Who played on the greatest  stage of them all, the Super Bowl.   Forty Six years and still Rockin’!!!

The Who at Superbowl XLIV in 2010

So what about the other guys?  The ones that generation X thinks is the “greatest band of all time”? Well, they were formed  in 1981,and have pumped out 100 million albums themselves, not too shabby, for sure.  And yes, they are a decent band, a very good band, great heavy metal for sure. But, when you throw out “the greatest” on anything, or anyone, that is a whole lot different than just being very good…or even great, for that matter.  I notice no quote  for Metallica like the following  attributed to Eddie Vetter; “The one thing that disgusts me about The Who is the way they smashed through every door in the uncharted hallway of rock ‘n’ roll without leaving much more than some debris for the rest of us to lay claim to”. Pretty much sums it up, I would think.  The bottom line is, we will all be humming “My Generation”,  “Won’t get fooled again”, “I can see for Miles”, “The Kids are all right” for the rest of our lives….. again, see what I mean about being part of our culture? We all subconsciously acknowledge greatness, we immortalize it in fact. As we have done with The Who. End of story!! The Facts speak for themselves, the Who is the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time!

But, Metallica did do some sort of trailblazing, ya gotta give credit where credit is due, ya know.  They led the charge against free music on the Internet, putting Napster out of business in a series of lawsuits. They were the ones who were responsible for the news stories you heard about unemployed Mothers getting fines of 2,000 dollars each for the 250 songs Jr downloaded from the Internet. That would be 2,000 times 250. Many cases of that happening in the early part of the decade.  I do not condone stealing, and yes, Ulrich was right, it is stealing and there is now a nice system in place to sell music  on-line…..but I have always thought that all of that was done in a very heartless way, and one that needlessly punished the little guy. For instance,  why not go after, say the ISP that allowed jr access to the songs in the first place? Oh I know, too many Lawyers to do that, lets just fuck the unemployed lady who has no money to defend herself and send a “message”, good thinking,  Lars.   Of course with the modern attention span of 5 min, to  paraphrase one of their songs “nothing else matters” . And maybe in another 20 years we might well be talking about  Metallica the same way as we do about the Who….but not just yet. Takes time boys and girls, not “Internet time”, where if something is older than 5 years it’s a classic..LOL, but real time.  Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

I don’t know if it was well deserved or not, but got away for about two weeks to Knoxville Iowa for the Superbowl/Indy 500/Daytona 500 of Sprint car racing the Knoxville Nationals. Set in the charming small town of Knoxville IA for which it is named, with all  the history and  tradition of the event itself, a museum and hall of fame, Knoxville Raceway is hallowed ground for sure. I have been trying to get back to see that race again for quite some time, and something always  seems to get in the way. I had made it here in 1984 with my best friend Tracy, on our meandering journey  to the west coast, we were both young and very crazy then, and  many of the details from that particular week are a bit hazy. 

Signing the wall again at the famous Dingus Lounge

Steve Kinser "The King"

Entirely too much time was spent in the Dingus Lounge, and proceeded to  get hooked up with a bucks down race team  from Lincoln NE (I think, seem to remember, maybe…??)  Regardless, I’m quite certain they spent more money that week on alcohol than Methanol.  They were camped out in the old campgrounds off of turn 3.  There was an ancient Airstream that was part shop, part party trailer, cases of beer competed with a spare block and quick change for floor space,lets not discuss the toilet, the generator blew up, one of the  guys started a fire  in it while hitting  a bong, …….anyway, moving along……This year was the 50^thanniversary, so this one I simply could not  let go by.  What a great time! When you throw in the non winged show at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, we saw 5 straight nights of racing. Over 100 cars were there fighting to be one of the 24 cars that started the A main Sat night. It takes qualifying to a whole new level, trust me on this. One of the awesome things about this sport is the accessibility to the drivers, cars and crews that  you have. Nascar has made personal contact with virtually any part of its show restricted to those with deep pockets. Unless you want to call the autograph sessions with everyone lined up like cattle and the drivers working like school kids on a big test “personal contact”, that is . Sprint car racing is not like that, us unwashed rabble can see the cars up close and personal as they are being field stripped in parking lots all over town, the drivers not only are often hanging around then, but also are all over the place all the time. You can walk right up to Steve Kinser, Donnie Schatz, Danny Lasoksi, etc  and talk to them.  

Sprint car crews work on cars while spectators wander through

And its so quintessentially American heartland. Knoxville Raceway is part of the Marion County Fair, as is the Oskaloosa track and so many more racetracks around the country.  I mean how can you get more heartland and country  than a county fair? And Dirt is so primeval and cool. Its alive, its constantly changing.

In the stands before the race at Knoxville Raceway

You can sense the bond that the folks here, the farmers and all of those who make their living from the land have with these tracks.  I’ll  admit I do not want to live there, but boy did I enjoy visiting it and plan on returning next year if at all possible. And yes folks, to those of us who care about such things, the Dingus lounge is still very much in business and just as crazy as ever……

On the way back we stopped at  the Civil War, ie; War between the states, battlefield at Chickamauga.  These are really special places, very spiritual. This is one of the very largest of our battlefields, it sprawls all over the place. The veterans themselves got together in the late 1800’s and put up hundreds of monuments all over the place there. It’s a very cool place to spend some time soaking up our heritage.

Chicamagua

Well, I made it……no, not onto the ten most wanted list…this blog post for August is up in…August!! Hey, I did not say WHEN in August, you forgot to read the fine print !! I’ve already started on the next one, this one has rambled on way too long, but that’s why we call ‘em  ramblings, right? TTYL, Bye for now, Angie

I have a confession to make.  They tell me it’s the important first step.  I am an addict.  Oh I know, you never think it can happen to you!  It starts so innocently, first just a taste, then another.  Then your consumption rises, you find that you need it more and more, you make sure you are stocked up, the mere thought of running out fills you with dread. Before you know what has hit you, its all over!  You want to break the cycle, you think of the 12 step deal..I’ve done the first one, but  that means that there are 11 to go.  They won’t make me quit, will they??  That could not possibly be step 2, could it???  What  a  horrible thought!!  By the way, I’m talking of course, about those devilish little Ice Breaker mints, the ones in the check out line of all the grocery and drug stores.  What the fuck is in these things, have they finally figured out to market crack to us??   My ‘drug of choice’ happens to be the Wintergreen ones in the green box…now exactly what did YOU think I was talking about??   Never mind, I don’t want to know….

Not too long ago, with the usual breathless hyperventilating from the talking heads, dancing elephants, fireworks,  100 gazillion emails, and constant media coverage of folks with more time than brains camping out in front of assorted stores, an electronics company came out with a new telephone.  That’s all it is, I hate to break the news to you… especially if you missed the birth of your son, or death of your mother if you happened to be living in front of the local Best Buy waiting for those golden doors to open.  And no, I’m not being my usual flippant  self.  Do you think that 3 years from now, in the grand scheme of  the breakneck speed of this technology the latest  electronic bauble from Apple  will be looked at as anything but this?  Exactly!

The other part of this equation is just as predictable, as those who paid the absolute highest price this gadget will EVER sell for also encountered was…it does not work.  OK, it “works”, just not the way it worked when the geeks tested it out in the Ivory Tower emblazoned with “Apple Technologies”.  Not to mention its  $500, ok, $499 price tag. And the days lost waiting in line, fucking with the thing to get it to work at all, the learning curve, etc.  Why???  In the world of electronics, being king of the mountain, either as the  manufacturer or  the consumer is about as meaningful as being the first lemming over the cliff, the glory is fleeting at best.  Me?  I’ll wait until 1- the bugs are out of it, 2- all the bells and whistles are added, and 3-its below $99..or at that.  You know, a few weeks from now.

Well, on day whatever the fuck day it was, BP capped its never should have been drilled in the firs place well.  Of course, it’s leaking, hey, what do you want from a company who bragged about all the profits it makes, all the politicians it buys, all the inspection reports it filled out itself and then had their Bush appointed government lackeys sign off on?  I can hear it now….”…And BP, your doing a hell of a job”.  Probably from the dufus  Governor of Miss, who up until recently was squealing and bleating, “ain’t no oil here on these beaches, no-sirr-ree Bob.” And this gem:  “It ain’t no worse than a slick at a marina.”  This is a Gulf state Governor, for fucks sake!!!  OK, he’s a Republican but so what???  Can you  believe this elected official is saying shit like that??  You do know, of course, that not one penny of that 20 billion has been committed, right?  I keep waiting to hear something, ANYTHING, any sort of a sign, a damn HINT, that there is the slightest bit of collective will to actually, finally, MAYBE grow a tiny bit of national spine, bite some sort of shared bullet, and reduce our dependence on not just foreign oil, but oil use in general.  Look, I’m not an idiot, and most folks aren’t either.  We know that this is a petroleum based world, we know that, we get it.  And that a replacement for all the plastics, carbon fiber, all the countless things that our modern society needs is not on the horizon.  That’s even MORE reason to stop pissing it all away by burning it up!!!  And Ethanol is not the answer, Indy car guys I love you but we can’t grow our fuel, that’s why the price of corn has gone thru the roof.

Christ, this is not rocket science!  We really don’t have to invent a whole hell of a lot, go here:  http://www.excellatron.com and here http://www.johnsonems.com Google Lonnie Johnson, BTW, he’s a black man. Ponder that, tea baggers/birthers, and he just may have the answer to our energy problems.  When I saw him on CNN he mentioned that he could finish his battery project for less that 5 million dollars. That’s probably about what we spend on toilet paper for our puppet stooge Afghan presidential palace’s toilets a year.  Of course, we will need to build a power grid for the crash building program for the wind farms and solar cells we can build.  Talk about a jobs program, THIS is what the country needs!!  And… this needs to be nationalized, sorry, Energy is too important to be left to ‘free markets’, see Enron, BP, etc. for further clarification.  Regardless, this can be done…but we need the will to do it.  I’m not holding my breath, why do I think that our national energy “policy” (LOL) will continue to be a combination of “lets drill, lets invade, and lets not regulate the poor oil companies too much?”

In the ‘you can’t make this shit up’ department, I bring you a 38 year old guy from Malta, Idaho…and I LOVE saying “I-da_ho”, who got two citations for keeping 25 rattlesnakes in a 5 gal. bucket in his apartment.   Sort of like parking tickets then, right?  He got cited for parking rattlesnakes in his apartment.  See, I think like, “what if I get up in the middle of the night, still completely shitfaced stumble to the kitchen……and you know what happens next, right?  “Oh FUCK, I forgot I left it there!!!!”  Then…you only find….19…or….21….or in my case it would be…”now, how many DID I put in there???” Actually, no, it would not be, because as fucking nuts as I can be, who the hell can be that crazy, right? It turns out that he did have 32, but he gave some away, and he ate two of them.  Now that’s one way to keep the old food bill down, isn’t it?  And ya’ gotta wonder, he told the cops that he gave some away…wonder what the occasion was?  The best bud’s birthday gift?  I know, Mom and Dad’s 50th anniversary …it’s the thought that counts that’s what they say!  Maybe to his favorite stripper in the local strip club, in lieu of a dollar for a dance well done?  Wait, I know, he brought one to a potluck…OK, I’ll stop now.  Notice that any reference to a wife has been left out here, you just  know this is a single guy.   So ladies, the next time your significant other drags whatever home with him, just remember, whatever the hell it is, what its NOT is a bucket of rattlesnakes being plopped down in the middle of your living room, yes, it could be worse, so quit yer bitchin’!

King of the Outlaws

Well, it’s the middle of summer, its hot, and its getting hotter.  The racing season is in full swing, the WOO (that’s World of Outlaws) teams are crisscrossing the country, racing hard, banging wheels, crashing,  thrilling crowds across the land.   The ‘month of money’ has begun…and…like birds flying south for the winter, leaves falling off the trees in Oct…this means that around this time, the big dog starts to stir.  Maybe not quite as intense as in years past, after all, when you were 58 three years ago, and are 56 this year, no matter how you cut it, its harder than it used to be when you whipped ‘em all for decades on end.  But…the facts are…that  the ‘King of the Outlaws’, the greatest dirt racer and sprint car chauffeur of all time, Steve Kinser just won the Kings Royal.  Again, for the 7th time!!  He is sitting 2nd in points, and all in all is having a great year.  It’s all leading up to the one event that everyone has on their mind, if you are into this great sport, that is.   We just call it “the Nationals”, and this year, finally, I’m getting back to the big show, the 50th Knoxville Nationals…WHHOOOHOOO!!  Finally, a real vacation, (and running cross country in moving trucks is not a vacation, trust me on this!)  Dirt in the eyes night after night, eating buffalo burgers during the day, getting hammered at the Dingus Lounge,  seeing cars from every corner of the country, and drivers from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia who knows where else.  Bonuses of the 360 nationals and a USAC non winged show thrown in for good measure, and all in the middle of the heartland, middle of nowhere actually!  I cannot wait!!   And if Kinser can pull this off,  if the big dog has one more of these in the tank…there are no words for it, that’s for sure…Just qualifying is a big deal.  One year a guy towed down from Alaska….came all the way from Alaska to turn his arms into kindling wood just trying to qualify for this race.  Yes, it’s a real big deal, and it’s special, for sure.

I might get another column up before we take off, we shall c.  If I don’t, enjoy summer, stay safe, and I will talk to you soon… Bye for now, Angie

This must be a new driver!

This weekend I am spending most of my time hanging out at the track for the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Nothing can beat being out on a gorgeous Florida Spring day in the sun watching names like Tony Kanaan, Marco Andretti and Danica Patrick battling for the best starting spot for Sunday’s race! Will Power hung on for the Pole, with Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon taking the second and third spots. Continue reading “Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg – Very Cool!” »

Hi everybody, had a nice weekend, went to the local racetrack and saw some great sprint car racing. Got away  for a few hours Sun from slaving away at the computer and went for a nice top down cruise in my 560 SL, it was a gorgeous day! This evening one of my club guys is going to be in town, he’s getting a really nice place for a evening of videoing and BDSM kink   He’s a bit on the Dom side and I do enjoy that!  All in all, should be a nice evening……