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You aren't a bad driver, the person in that SUV however is. There is nothing more distracting to the driver in front of you to have some pinhead roaring up and falling back. I had some dumbass in a white exploder doing that to me yesterday on PCH in Santa Monica. I decided just to take a right up into the canyon and let her cell-phone juggling, latte-swilling self rear-end someone else

Star Trek's George Takei on Tim Hardaway

This Sunday I saw an absolutely perfect 50's Kaiser Manhattan in Highland Park and a Bugatti Veryron on Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. On the way to work today I saw a gorgeous black '59 Cadillac Sixty Special on Normandie at Beverly Blvd in the mid-city area. Cute guy driving it too.

I just love the holier-than-thou attitude: "we know what's best for you and sometimes what's best for you is not getting out of your driveway"

I'm really sorry to read about your loss. You have my deepest and most heartfelt condolences.

90% of people who get all bent out of shape that they might share a locker room with a gay guy are deluding themselves in thinking they never had. The other 10% are secretly thrilled at the idea. Hardaways a pinhead and the sooner he and his chicken-wings and his car-wash and his "I shouldn't have said it" (note it's not "I shouldn't have thought it") go away the better.

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I think you should have ripped the balls off the motherfu%&er. Four men on one man is bad enough, on a woman? They're lucky you didn't have a gun. If what you say is accurate, they attacked you. How you defended yourself is immaterial. I do not support our occupation of Iraq. I do support every single man and woman who wear that uniform and fight for my right to disagree with that occupation. You want to berate someone, call your representative.

but the egg donor was a Karmann Ghia

One other thing that I cannot stress enough: read the parking signs! A lot of areas on the West side especially have restricted and/or permit only parking. The worst way to end a nice day is to come back and find a ticket because you went over the time limit or didn't notice a sign. If the are has restrictions, the sign will be posted at the beginning and end of the block.

Late spring is the best time to be here. I would stay in Santa Monica. Downtown is central, but it's also dead at night. the Sea Shore on Main Street is clean and inexpensive and two blocks from the beach in a very nice part of SM http://www.seashoremotel.com/ Definately rent a convertible. Even if you keep the top up during the day you can have it down at night. I personally don't care for Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica (it really doesn't have that much anymore that's not at any other mall in the area) but it's worth a walk through, and you can walk from the hotel. Main Street is also a very hip shopping district, as is Montana Avenue (which is too far to walk, but you can drive and park north of the avenue on the side streets. Beverly Hills is okay, just to say that you've been there. Parking in the municipal lots is 1 hour free, parking at Neimans or Barneys is 2 hours with validation, or there is street parking north of Santa Monica blvd. If you want to do Rodeo, I'd do it on a weekday, it's tourist central on the weekend. The side streets are more of whatever you would find at a local mall (Pottery Barn, Gap, etc). A few destinations: Mulholland Drive (preferably at night) starting from Sepulveda Boulevard going east. You'll be going through some seriously expensive real estate with killer valley views. Once you have gotten past the entrance to Runyon Canyon in Hollywood, you will get the most incredible head-on city view of downtown. The Village Cafe in Beachwood Canyon: Beachwood Canyon Drive is going to give you the best view of the Hollywood sign you're going to get, and the tiny Village Cafe inside the Hollywoodland gates is a slice of 40's Hollywood: decent food (burgers, sandwiches, and breakfasts) that's fairly cheap and you are apt to see some b-list celeb from the neighborhood. If you have time to wander the vertiginous side streets in the canyon, you can see some of the amazing original houses from when this was a 1920's housing development. Artisans were brought in from Italy to hew the stones that were used in the retaining walls on the steep streets ( a warning: these streets are very steep, with many switchbacks. If your parents are afraid of heights, stick to the bottom of the canyon) This would be a good morning destination then you can cruise Hollywood Boulevard going west. Sunset Boulevard: Once you've gone past the famous parts of Hollywood Blvd, (at LaBrea) hook a left and go right on Sunset. It's a fairly heavily trafficked street, but it's worth a drive. You will go from semi-seedy Hollywood past the West Hollywood clubs, through Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Brentwood. If you want to you can hook a left in Brentwood and return to Santa Monica or continue on through Pacific Palisades to the Ocean. PCH: Everyone should have their "American Gigolo" moment and drive PCH in a convertible. Starting in Santa Monica, go north on PCH into Malibu. After the bridge over Cross Creek, make a right onto Civic Center Way and find a place to park. This is the Malibu Country Mart, a collection of shops and restaurants that might be the best place for star-sightings in all of LA county. Getting back on PCH, drive up past the Ventura county line to Point Mugu (you can't miss it, a giant rock between you and the ocean. Park there and spend a few minutes enjoying the Pacific- you have a decent chance of seeing frolicking Dolphins, sometimes even whales. On the way back to Santa Monica, hook a right into Paradise Cove. The cafe there doesn't have the greatest food, but your parents can have a nice drink and watch the sunset over the water. They might even remember the place as being where James Garner's character lived in the '70's TV show "The Rockford Files" If you want a tour of Beverly Hills, click Here Hope this hugely rambling post helps

Actually, you should slow way down in the rain, especially if the rain has just started. All of the oils and crap on the road become very slippery.

I would think that a refresh would be fairly easy to get away with, since it's plastic panels and not steel. Of course I could be totally wrong.

People working in Radio are losers. If they weren't losers, they'd be working in Television. :wink:

I saw that one: all I could think was "Why do they think Zombies will make me want to buy popcorn? Is that brain-flavored popcorn?"

26. "what did I win, a Pinto?"

Work: Dell Optiplex 2.4 G Intel processor CD-drive & Floppy (god forbid we might burn a playlist) MS Windows 2000 Home: Key Lime iBook SE 466 Mhz PowerPC processor DVD-rom & external CD burner Mac OS X

that made my week!

The problem with American policies is that we have this pie-in-the-sky idea of "Free Trade" with countries that A) do not in any way really reciprocate, B) keep their currency artificially low so their goods can be sold at lower prices and C) are given tax breaks to be able to build non-union plants in the states. There's nothing that can be done about "C" now- that door has been opened too far. However, "A" and "B" should be taken care of by Washington. Sadly, I doubt it will happen, no matter what party is in charge.

and since this one has been born, bred and built in the USA, there's no reason to feel guilty about it. The profits don't stay here, so that's not entirely true.

I like the new one. The older model was great (I loved it from the first clear spyshots during the filming of "Matix: Reloaded" but I can see why they lost some of the creases. That raising spline line has been co-opted by everyone from Nissan to Mercedes. Time to move on. The original CTS could be looked at as the '67 deVille turned upside-down, this one I am seeing more '67 Eldorado I wonder how long it will take the auto mags to bitch that there isn't a handbrake. 'Cause you know, the Dukes of Hazzard turn is so very important with today's longer commutes.

I want to see it in person as well, I'm especially interested in that cut-line that runs from the side vent up to the doorline. It's really gorgeous, the grill reminds me of the ones on the mid 70's Eldorado: the ones that tucked under the lower front

Yes, they didn't like the chimes. But the pinhead could have made the chimes stop by taking the keys out of the ignition while the door was open like a normal person. It's not like it was a siren or a gong or the voice of Ethel Merman for gods sake.

Coldwater Canyon Drive between the Valley and Beverly Drive. Mulholland Drive between the Cahuenga Pass and the Sepulveda Pass PCH between Santa Monica and Santa Barbara Beverly Blvd from Beverly Hills to downtown

Why does David Pogue have portraits of Tammy Faye Bakker on the wall of his den?