“Contract or no, I will NOT bow to any sponsor!”Wayne Campbell (Michael Myers) while holding aloft some PIZZA HUT, Waynes World (1992) Right on, man! Don’t cave to the corporate bastards! Unless, well see here’s the thing. You can, and you will, if you want to get together the cabbage needed to get the enterprise […]
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Archive for 2024
THE GREATEST COMEBACK SINCE LAZARUS!
Well, I have to confess, it was a pretty grand feeling to return to the ‘Big Show’, with this new website in my proverbial pocket. And I had a script for the day at Joliet, but here’s the deal with preparation. Sometimes, preparation is good, and sometimes preparation is… “H”. Everybody was awesome, the racing […]
ROAD FOOD, Joliet Style!
“So, Garth, would you like to have dinner some night”?…..’I like to have dinner EVERY night…”Bombshell (Kim Basinger) to Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) in WAYNES WORLD TWO (1993) Was it really eight years ago? Boy, it seems like it was at LEAST…eight years ago. After years of telecons, and emails only, my editor at Drag […]
Gatornationals 2024
‘Amos Moses was a Cajun, He lived by himself in the swamp, He hunted alligator for a living, He’d just knock them in the head with a STUMP!’ AMOS MOSES, by Jerry Reed, 1970 Well, it seems like ‘just yesterday’ the NHRA season began in February, with the WinterNationals. Times change, and so do racing […]
The New Column
“A-Round’in third, and headed for home, it’s a brown-eyed handsome man… Anyone can understand the way I feel”CENTERFIELD, John Fogerty (1985) Well, I won’t lie, it feels great to be back! And it feels even greater to have a team that believed in me, and spent a great deal of time and effort to BRING […]