“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 […]
When winter is coming, but you’re not ready to give up cruising in your dune buggy, you throw a set of tracks on the back. Breezin’ Performance Ski Wear 1980 Vintage Men’s T-Shirt
Taylor Sheridan became one of TV’s most powerful creators with an epic saga set on a ranch, but his latest protagonist has little patience for agrarian fantasy. The landowner giving Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) a lecture isn’t really a rancher, the professional fixer argues: “You’re an oilman who spends the money we give you […]
“Fighting to remain in the driver’s seat is Steve Rook, who appears much like a rodeo cowboy taking his chances on a bucking bronco while going over a makeshift ramp youngsters constructed to imitate stunts of the daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel.” That was the caption that accompanied this newspaper featured photo. Pretty sure the only […]