Barack, Can We Talk?Barack, can we, uh, talk for a few minutes? Oh, nothing. It's just that it just seems we haven't had a chance to talk for a while. I mean, I know we've both been busy for the past year or...
Have Your People Call My People(Image courtesy Nate Whited) Jim Treacher reports that former child actor (and pride of the Evanston Township HS English Department) John Cusack has discovered the joys of Twitter, with somewhat predictable results. Crueler folks have already analyzed Mr. Cusack's 140-character...
Help a Brother OutLongtime Iowahawk readers will recall my old Ozark hotrodding medico friend Darren "Doc" Lee from Operation Dumb-Vee, where we successfully conspired to plaster Doc's Army unit's vehicles with morale-boosting refridgerator magnets from home, during his stint in Iraq. You also...
Cheaterama!You restore America your way, I'll restore it mine. Of all the car events I attend (and I attend a lot of 'em) none tops Cheaterama, the annual hot rod convocation organized by my wisecracking / car building buddies in...
Off on a Fool's ErrandBrief note to emailers curious about my recent posting hiatus: no worries, all's fine and dandy in Iowahawkland. I'm just temporarily shifting attention to a couple of writing projects, one of which is a book of all-new material. I've always...
The World Was HappyHappy VJ Day and special thanks to all veterans of the Pacific Theater. From Richard Sullivan some amazing film shot by his father in Honolulu, August 14, 1945. VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.
When You've Lost the Pretentious Marin County Microbrewers...Northern California reader "Patvann" takes the pulse of the American zeitgeist at a local booze outlet and senses a disturbance in the Unicorn Force: "So my brother and I go to our nearby friendly neighborhood liquor store, to buy our...
Undocumented Imam's Refusal to Perform Interracial Gay Handicapped Wedding Leads to Charges of RacismNEW YORK - Charges of racism, sexism, and religious discrimination filled the air this afternoon outside the just-completed Cordoba House, the gleaming new $100 million 15 story mosque and Islamic cultural center near the ruins of New York's World Trade...
That Story Is True I'm Here to Say, 'Cause I Just Saw that Model AA few weeks ago Anthony Cagle at Amazon's Car Lust blog offered up a post on the eponymous Hot Rod Lincoln of Charlie Ryan's 1955 rockabilly classic which has been covered countless times, most notably in 1972 by Commander Cody...
Drove My Chevy Off the Levee[cross-posted at the Daily Caller, where I'm temp subbing for Jim "the Gimp" Treacher] I like to think of myself as two things: (1) an optimist, and (2) a car guy. Unfortunately, the age of Government Motors has made those...
