Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
No, it wasn’t four lonely days in a brown LA haze. It was two lonely days in a pea-soup kinda fog and a whole lotta snow driving. Echo summit, which I used on the way over, and Donner which I used on the way back, were both unkind and unrelenting.
Could the following people report to the DMV to surrender their drivers’ licenses — in the imaginary universe in which everything’s done my way:
The driver who had to enter I-80 from the entrance ramp, in Truckee, and absolutely had to get in front of me until he figured out I was there — and then, when it was too late for me to take the lead, slowed down to twenty miles an hour so we could all figure out what to do.
The nice looking lady in a way-too-big truck who had to charge past me like I was standing still, pull out in front, and slow way down while she figured out what to do.
The lady with chains on her car who pulled up to the spot where they remove them for you, and, in front of me, come to a complete stop while she figured out what to do.
All of these encounters taking place on Donner. For diversity’s sake I am presuming the first of the three was a male. But get this one thing straight, folks — speed has to be kept restrained beneath a certain threshold, and uniform.
Also, a demerit for the driver of the car with an Obama sticker on it, who was clearly in the process of giving the poor chain installer guy some grief about the money being charged, or why don’t they take personal checks, or what-not.
I was pretty glad to get home. The Echo experience was just a ritual chain-installing pain-in-the-ass. Sixty whole miles of driving around with the goddamn things on a Friday night, but nothing went wrong. Donner was really scary. No bloodshed in the many, many accidents…but the twisted metal was absolutely horrific, you had to have special boots just to walk around on that slippery shit let alone drive on it, and some of my roadway companions were completely brainless. A four-wheel-drive unit, probably the victim of his own hubris, was flipped around facing the wrong way but outwardly seemed unscathed. He was one of the fortunate ones. Cars split open, front ends crushed, back ends entirely removed from the rest of the car, fenders wrinkled up like aluminum foil when you crumple it into a ball and give it a good squeeze.
I’ve never understood why the Siskiyou has such a notorious rep. I still don’t.
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(Laughed out loud.)
Yeah, the Siskyous. Woulda thunkit?
- OregonGuy | 04/05/2010 @ 09:40.
Yep. Grab some corn dogs at that Texaco station in Yreka, 20 miles on a mild upgrade, up & over. What’s the big deal?
- mkfreeberg | 04/05/2010 @ 09:57What? The beach was all booked up? 😉
Glad you’re home in one piece.
- bpenni | 04/05/2010 @ 10:09I just liked the Buffett reference. Classic.
- philmon | 04/05/2010 @ 14:26