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Alanis King
alanisnking
The cat lady who writes about cars and motorsport. Former writer and editor at Jalopnik.

Just so you know, this article was written for you. Please read it again.

If you can’t appreciate the ridiculousness of Automobile’s rebranding and an article calling it out for the bullshit that it is then... well I don’t know. Then *something*. Maybe you can figure out what the problem is here. Read more

Aaaaaaaaaand that’s the reason she’s posting what she did.
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I’m sure Jean [Lindamood] Jennings will have an interesting take on this. Read more

Alas I never made it to this track living in Round Rock. Longhorn was just so much closer. Read more

Should have mentioned that was 3+ years ago when we were there, and 2 weeks ago when I found out they closed.

They were quick! Missing clear tag in the CSS…  Read more

Great read. My wife and I have been out there several times along with a few other Jalops. Fun track for sure. We were all stunned to see such a quick demise for the home of “Fast Cars and Hot Guitars!”. Read more

As an organizer, the biggest threat I see to race tracks is the owners themselves. Read more

I ordered this months ago. It still hasn’t arrived.
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When my wife and I moved a few years ago, we found a great house we loved in a great location (and relatively close to all of our grandchildren). We were moving from a townhouse with the smallest-possible two car garage and I refused to buy the new house unless the garage was larger than our old garage. It was 9 Read more

The last house I lived in and fell in love with was fortunate enough to have many sheds but also a number of other features like the fact the nearest neighbour was 20 km away, the house was 50 m from the river and the house itself was two houses jammed together in a most delightful fashion.

A garage saved me a lot of money, actually. The year we 2002, I was moving to Baltimore for a new job, and needed to find a place to live. Ordinarily, I might have rented a place for a year or two (I was in my twenties and had never purchased a home before) but there was one wrinkle: I was the proud owner of a 1986 Read more

Absolutely did and I got extremely lucky - somehow. Read more

Moved out to Oklahoma for a year in search of work. The house we rented had an awesome three car garage that was attached. That, alone, sold me on the house. The killer bathroom with the two person hot tub and two person shower was just a bonus in my opinion. Read more

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My husband and I knew we needed AT LEAST a 2 car garage. But more importantly, we needed a home that wasn’t in an HOA. This is because we already knew we would have 3 cars minimum and there weren’t any 3 car garage homes in our price range. So somebody always has to be outside. Our home needed to have some sort of Read more