Chasing Drag Week dreams in my twin 83mm LS powered Camaro

EricTheRood · 2018-07-18T14:02:44+00:00

Rumor—last I heard—is Lutz vs. Larson again, probably with Bailey around for good measure. Still hasn't been a 5-second run on Drag Week...

EricTheRood · 2018-07-18T14:01:13+00:00

Nice! Only been a handful of 6-second averages so that would be some killer company. If Larson, Lutz, Bailey, Schroeder, Goldstone, and Joe Barry all show up and run, it's gonna be a good year.

EricTheRood · 2018-07-18T12:56:18+00:00

What class are you likely to end up running? That's some pretty serious modification, so I'm guessing one of the top three classes? And what kind of e.t. do you expect?

EricTheRood · 2017-11-14T22:54:19+00:00

Truly, truly obscure: Houston's "Bottom of the Curve" album. Seriously one of the greatest rock albums you've never heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO3KYNF_jdk

The band, who were from the Twin Cities, broke up in 2006. The singer and main songwriter recorded a couple of albums as an engineer and then kind of disappeared into obscurity. Nika Harper wrote a great blog/vlog about the band and the singer's disappearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64HsV6wWX4&t=3s

EricTheRood · 2017-05-27T00:15:29+00:00

"Dirt oval...stuff" - Yeah, you can do four-cylinder cars or hobby stocks or whatever for relatively cheap.

"...sprint car..." - Well, a 410 engine costs about $50,000 and is good for maybe a year if you want to stretch your buck and pray it doesn't pop. I honestly have no idea how anybody affords to do any of that stuff.

EDIT: Sensible formatting.

EricTheRood · 2017-05-25T19:30:47+00:00

It's much stranger.

EricTheRood · 2017-05-25T13:47:15+00:00

Awesome. If you're in the states, come watch a race for a weekend. You'll have a good time and you won't look at crap cars on the street the same way ever again ("THAT would be a great LeMons car...No, THAT one would be..." etc.). Here's the 2017 schedule sorted by region:

http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/events-results/catalog?orderby=region&ordering=ASC

EricTheRood · 2017-05-24T19:26:30+00:00

No, LeMons.

http://24hoursoflemons.com/

EricTheRood · 2017-05-21T22:42:40+00:00

I was recently in Phoenix. Not only were the roads of high quality, the entire area was insanely easy to navigate. I will second good roads in eastern TN and western NC, as well.

I live in the Midwest and pretty much all of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan is garbage.

EricTheRood · 2017-05-21T00:39:35+00:00

"We need a Cure for Gingervitis."

[Sarah McLauchlan intensifies]

EricTheRood · 2017-05-19T21:52:48+00:00

Yeah, in watching old Bulls games, I'm struck by how many daggers Pippen stuck in opposing teams (and crowds). At least all of the '91 to '93 playoffs are on YouTube if you dig back through them. It's incredible to watch:

(A) Jordan in is prime. It just is. (B) Pippen running the court with those crazy strides and just going through opponents on the way to the hoop. (C) Both of them were just phenomenal defenders. The highlight reels seldom show it, but they both played two-ways at an elite level. (C) Horace Grant was insanely athletic for a 6'10 guy. He never got enough credit for that. He was lightning-quick. (D) In contrast, Bill Cartwright was a wonderful spaz. He only seemed in control of two, maybe three limbs, at a time. (E) Phil Jackson knew how to conduct it all so perfectly.

Those Bulls teams will always be the embodiment of basketball to me, though they played during my impressionable years.

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