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Low key eh? So no Baldknobbers shows then?

I can't do strenuous stuff right after meals. I'll barf.

Everybody should just buy and maintain their own snowplow... for capitalism!

"He's" a she

I think they should have put Guiton in late. Miller was getting really beat up and it affected his play. I don't care what they shot him full of.

It is, but try to play with others as soon as possible. You can develop a lot of bad habits if you play on your own for too long.

What percentage of violent crime is "random" again? 2%?

I found out about Little Rock's streetcar from watching a First Row stream from there. I also like how the U.S. inadvertently funds it through web ads with Smokey the Bear.

^ NSFW

And not have to worry about getting a DUI for that one beer. Overzealous DUI enforcement is the #1 enemy of the outside-of-the-home entertainment industry, especially in cities with little public transit.

It's incredibly hard to get a person to be at a certain place at a certain time.

Another thing that you have to keep in mind when noting the demise of the car chase and cool cars dominating '80s TV is that those shows were very expensive to make. They were essentially shooting half an action movie every week. By 1988 the networks had pulled all the Airwolfs, Hardcastle & McCormicks and Street Hawks for cheap, dippy sitcoms aimed at kids and teens such as Growing Pains, Alf, Full House and Mr. Belvedere. This was the time that the newsmagazine started wiping out the evening soaps too. Also, the demographics of those early '80s action shows skewed way too male in a world where women were making 85% of purchasing decisions. The Camaros, Mustangs and mini-trucks the dudes wanted weren't nearly as high volume vehicles as the minivans, Hondas, Tauri and Cavaliers that My Two Dads and 20/20 sold. Eventually though, people looking for laughs needed more than little girls mispronouncing words and teaching moments brought on by Dad finding a joint in a teen's nightstand. Enter Seinfeld, Friends etc. that at least started out cheap to make and drew both men and women. So it wasn't some kind of liberal mandate that moved things away from filming cars ramping in the desert to filming people at home but rather business sense and the need to maximize the wealth of the shareholders.

A long-time rail opponent. During MetroMoves, he called light rail the "Toonerville Trolley." Just one more person who has wagered his credibility on the wrong side of the bet. Will be fun the dredge up these quotes in a couple of years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI

I don't know if you read the same article (from this month's Car and Driver), but the C&D article also mentioned how YouTube allows people to see the kind of motorized mayhem even TV and movies couldn't deliver: real people crashing with real-life consequences. Stuff like guys totaling their own Lamborghinis and Bugattis. Guys destroying brand new Raptors by jumping them on motocross tracks. Drivers dying. That makes the A-Team forcing a junk old military Jeep off the road then it rolling over as pro stuntmen safely eject seem tame.

Was that one of the 8 million tire stores downtown?

I bet he was costing them business. He certainly embarrassed them. I bet that's why Slitherman left his NAACP position as well.

It just doesn't make any sense to them. You've got to remember how pushy TV, movies, newspapers, magazines and even music were with this car-only stuff back in the one-way communication days.

Well, I heard the neighbors making noise so I just went over there around 11 and partied anyway.

This is my first New Year's sitting around the house since probably 1997. All my friends are either out of town or also staying in. It's LAME.

Now this is how things are supposed to be. The Cincinnati Restaurant section is about chili and Frisch's.

A world created around the car isn't any fun to drive in. That's why when people want to have fun driving they have to find a place where the car wasn't able to conquer the landscape.

But budget cuts and firing people always result in job growth

But kjbrill won't ride it -- therefore it will be unsuccessful.

If each road project of this cost came with a tax increase a lot fewer of them would get done, wouldn't they? But there are scores of highway projects in Ohio over the next few years that will cost more. But of course it's OK because "winner" projects are subject to little scrutiny and don't need to produce a return on investment. I love the baseless assumption that any rail project comes with a tax increase. It lets me know who did their homework and who didn't.

There probably aren't going to be any inpatients on the streetcar because by definition, they are stuck in the hospital. Sorry... couldn't resist.