This car may be cursed. After five days, a dead battery. Two weeks later, a right-front tire, with plenty of tread, that mysteriously went flat. Which brings to mind the Stephen King novel Christine — about a car apparently inhabited by a “vengeful spirit”. At best, the Audi is proving to be a money pit. […]

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Five days. That’s how long it took for the Audi to go dead on me. Five days. Bought it on Thursday, was sitting in a dead Audi on Tuesday. In the middle of the day. In 110-degree heat. Far from home. Of this I can be sure: Never did I imagine I would be pushing […]

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Usually, the hare-brained schemes are mine. Or were. A night college football game followed by a 1 p.m. NFL kickoff the next day — in some other state — followed by a flight back to SoCal after filing. … The plan to drive from SoCal over the Rockies and to Denver in about 22 hours, […]

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Another ride in the Wayback Machine, inspired by poking around the other day for the Firestone “Wheels Are Turning” television ad. In this one, the advertising spot is fairly lame … but the product it is flogging is Just Plain Weird. That would be the Sixfinger toy kit sold by Topper Toys and promoted heavily […]

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Air conditioning is a very serious concept, in the UAE. Without it, the country is close to uninhabitable over the six-plus months of summer. To make do without it for any length of time is to be reminded of how perilous is civilization’s grip on this land. Without AC, Abu Dhabi and Dubai would not […]

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I have a watch I like. It’s not expensive, at all, just rubber and plastic, but it has multiple functions. It has a digital readout. It has a button I can push to light up the face, so I can tell the time in the dark. It can tell me the date, which is something […]

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