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Andrew Fails
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Fails is a freelance photographer who sometimes pretends to be literate. You can see his portfolio at www.failsphotography.com. He is talking in third person because it makes him feel mysterious.

Cavaliers were not great when they were new. No one is paying half of that amount for Chevy’s equivalent of used bogroll these days. Read more

For $10,500? A Cavalier? I don’t care it it’s a convertible. Hell, I wouldn’t care if it also included a modest vacation package to the glorious sunkist beaches of Puerto Rico valued at $5,500, while Vanna White herself flips the final letters as I solve “My wife is leaving me because I bought a Cavalier for $10,500.” Read more

I was just out in Oregon between Portland & Bend this past weekend. The heat was unreal - really glad our Turo rental was in tip-top shape. 

I guess they only have one tag for infrastructure... otherwise they would have tagged it “our adequate infrastructure that wasn’t designed to handle the impacts of global warming”. Read more

He’s not pretending it’s not hot. He’s saying Fahrenheit is pretending to be a proper measurement of temperature.
Thank you for converting that to correct and understandable Celsius. Read more

I thought we agreed to never talk about our SKA period in high school. Read more

Someone from the northeast: what’s wrong with the road? I don’t see it
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Before he could jump just a single passenger tried to restrain him. I don’t know if it was fear or what, but you’d think it would’ve been more than one. Read more

That is until 33-year-old Luis Antonio Victoria Dominguez leaned over to the woman he was sitting next to and whispered to her that he was going to jump out.

Look, if the cop told the kid to ‘Freeze’, and he was holding ‘anti-freeze’, how is that not blatant failure to comply? Easy grounds for opening fire. Read more

What sucks is that those cops that can recognize that their nerves are frayed or are starting to have PTSD or other mental/emotional effects from their job are not always given the proper outlet to retire early and leave the force. I know one particular cop (friend of a friend) who went through a tough situation. A Read more

Here I am, getting sucked into the subjectivity vortex. Read more

Also some gratuitous self promotion: olde turbo twists on a 997

Those look great!  The mustang above?  Not so much. Read more

Gen 2 SHO wheels on a Transit Connect.

No thanks - you made a Mustang even less desirable to me, and I didn’t think that could happen.  If it floats your boat though, that’s great. Read more

Most old wheels were bad and only look good in their original context. Putting them on a new car makes them worse. New wheels on old cars can be similarly jarring, but can look nice if they’re in proportion and match the styling of the car. Read more