Go big or go home…alive. Those are your options when riding a Sokol ATV, a Russian machine said to be the world’s largest production four-wheeler. I mean, one flip and that’s it. And even though doing business with Russia is complicated at the moment, it turns out it’s still possible for Americans to buy one […]
Founded in 1897, Liverpool Screw Towing & Lighterage Co. operated a fleet of cock tugs – no laughing, please – which are smaller tugboats used in ports where larger tugs would be tough to maneuver like the port of Liverpool. These were called cocks, or cockboats, and the people in charge of them were called […]
Silent Night, Deadly Night was one of the many slasher movies inspired by the success of Halloween. It wasn’t the first horror film to take place entirely around Christmas (1972’s Silent Night, Bloody Night, and 1974’s Black Christmas beat it to the punch), nor was it the first film to depict Santa as a killer […]
“I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don’t bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to […]
The practice of choosing one cigarette in a fresh pack to be a “lucky” cigarette by flipping it upside down is old. But how old is it, exactly? We’ll dig into the meaning of the practice and where it came from. The “lucky” cigarette is a single upside-down cigarette inside of a fresh pack that’s […]
In the late ’40s and early ’50’s the name NAPCO really stood for something in the automotive world. But there is a good chance you have never heard of them before. If you had a four-wheel drive truck back in those days it was most likely designed by NAPCO (Northwest Auto Parts Company). Founded in […]
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of […]
“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don’t forget indigestion. I wasn’t different from anyone else: there sat the 18 pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. […]
The American horror revolution of the 1970s and ’80s brought a new strain of realism to the genre. The fantastical monsters of the past made way for slashers inspired by the war in Vietnam and social upheaval at home, as well as the emerging figure of the serial killer. It’s easy to guess that a […]
Gone forever, one of the nastiest drag racing classes of all time, the Altered Coupes/Sedans & Competition Coupes/Sedans. The baddest of the bad, including the nitro burning Double A Fuel Altereds, rounded off to AA/FA. Folks referred to the AA part as “Awful Awful”. I think there has always been some confusion about the Altered […]