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Our love of Friday Night Lights the television show exceeds our love of the book and movie. We appreciate the way it presents both the way we see Texas (ungodly attractive people fueled by determination and courage) and the way Texas often is (full of desperate people clinging to Football to fulfill other unsatisfied desires). Even though almost everyone in the cast looks way too young to be in high school, and the whole murdering a guy thing, it's one of the best shows on television. The story Wes posted about the Texas man who rammed into a woman's car because God said she wan't diving like a Christian launched a dozen great one-liners, but we think abgwin captured the Texan-ness of the moment best. ah, yes, Texas. Where the mantra is "the higher the hair, the closer to god" and a bejeweled "JESUS" broach is not considered tacky; after all, they're real diamonds. Too true, but in Texas' defense we should also mention the woman probably looked like...
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The song "Leaving On A Jet Plane" may have been made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary but it was actually written by high-like-the-Rockies John Denver while stuck in an airport waiting for his flight. It was such a hit for PP&M some people believe the John Denver version is the cover and not the other way around. After writing the song he named it "Oh Babe I Hate To Go" but that name was mercifully changed by one of his producers. We always took Liz Phair's "Stratford-on-Guy" from Exile in Guyville as the stuck-circling-Chicago-O'Hare equivalent of Denver's song, but maybe that's us. Ben highlighted the trouble with flying your car on this plane-crazed day and Graverobber had an airborne song of his own to match. Loading my Ferrari onto a plane I thought I might go and drive it in Spain I need to be there by six For a date with two chicks And then I'll come home once again My Scuderia is fast My Scuderia is red It cost many rubles From...
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All day we've been banging to the sounds of the Clipse mixtape for their upcoming Till The Casket Drops and enjoying the numerous references to cars, clothes and just about every product you can imagine. One of the bloggers over at the Sound of the City compared it to William Gibson's post-Web 2.0 sci-fi book Spook Country , which is notable for its many shout outs to niche clothing brands as well as to the sexy and stealthy understated luxury of the Volkswagen Phaeton . It doesn't hurt the band is launching the tape in conjunction with the release of their own clothing line. Diversification! It's more proof stylish kicks and expensive whips go together like hammer pants and a Nissan Xterra . Just ask Rust My Enemy , who has seen this before. For the international man of Mystery who already follows the jet-set lifestyle. To go with your Phillipe-Patek watch, Gucci loafers and Armani slacks. Slick your $200 ponytail back and feel the soft leather on this baby. Watch the immediate...
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Before there was Pets.com and the dot-com bubble burst there was an even stranger financial boom and bust centered around the trading of tulips in mid-17th century Holland. As the flowers, especially rare breeds, became popular the market for the Tulip bulbs increased dramatically with contracts being traded on the future growth of flowers that were, essentially, futures. The prices became insane and, eventually, everyone wanted to get into the Tulip market. Then a group of traders at an auction decided it wasn't worth paying a trunk full of guilders for a few flowers. Quickly, panic spread across the market causing it to collapse. Despite this insane market failure the Dutch economy survived without too much in the way of disruption. Why? One reason is the Amsterdam Stock Exchange wouldn't engage in the Tulip market because it was insane and demonstrated irrational exuberance (the good old days). In the ongoing Carpocalypse we can debate the rationality and irrationality of certain...
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Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán, America's favorite Mexican actor of the 1970s, turned 88 today and we'd like to take this COTD opportunity to wish him a happy birthday. Few actors from the era have their own Jalopnik tag page, but here it is . Thanks to this now infamous Cordoba commercial , every Cordoba post we do requires a Montálban joke and we're grateful to the actor for being a good sport about it and, of course, for the Corinthian leather . You're the best Ricardo. Even when you play Kahn. We have to thank LTD Scott and his love for the GAZ Tchaika 14 for giving us an opportunity to thank the primo Latin lover from the Malaise Era. I'd totally love to have this car along with a nice Cordoba. Sounds like a nice Tchaika-Khan combination. Yeah, I know, you feel for me. Khan... Khan... KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
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Generally being a fan of the non-grunge music from the Grunge Era, Alice In Chains wasn't a band we listened to very often. There were a few good songs, but they never had the cool slacker chic of a Nirvana or the impressive musicianship of a Soundgarden. Not to mention, the lead singer's substance abuse problems were never quite as entertaining as Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland's stories (like forcing the head of his security to sleep outside his dressing room so he wouldn't sneak off and get in trouble). Caveats aside, "Man In The Box" is a great example of the genre and features the kind of guitar play responsible for making games like Rock Band so addictive. While we don't expect too many of the Jalopnik commenters to rush off and buy a Nissan GT-R toolbox , commenter Maymar is clearly our man on the box situation. I bet there's a secret drawer on the back that Snap-On unofficialy talks about, but if you use it, the box will fall to pieces...
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The Easter egg, as a symbol of life and rebirth, works fairly well. Ignoring the Greek and Roman fertility aspects of the egg, it's something that even a child can understand, which is why Christians are so eager to pass them out on Easter Sundays. They even have beeping Easter eggs for the students at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. They even have them on DVDs. The concept is so popular that now you can't buy a DVD of a made-for- Lifetime movie without finding a hidden scene of the cancer-girl-with-druggie-dad singing an acoustic version of "Date With Ikea" in her dressing room. In fact, if you go all the way to China you'll see a not-quite-egg-shaped Chery Eastar Convertible , which Jagvar informs us is on sale. Come on down to Jesus Christ Superstore, where it's a VERY Good Friday as we kick off our Easter weekend super-sale! We're literally crucifying the competition! But hurry, because these prices will rise again in just three days...
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We're not sure why "two for the price of one" is such a popular way to get people to buy things. If we didn't want one of something why would we suddenly want more than one of them? Though this is usually used on television to sell citrus-based cleaning products, it has spread to the auto market. You've probably heard about the dealership in Illinois selling a Chrysler Pacifica at MSRP ($39,000) and throwing in a lightly used 2008 PT Cruiser for $1. It looks like it worked because three people took them up on the offer. It's not a great deal when you consider that no one, ever, has paid full price for a Chrysler Pacifica. Today, Didorosi wrote about a real instance of a fake-sounding event from The Fast And The Furious , which is like two-for-one if you think about it. You get both Fast and Furious . And with Dearthair and TheEastBayKid , we get two COTDs for the price of one. First, from Dearthair: Oh I love Fast and the Furious! It's like a giant game of...
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We're not sure why "two for the price of one" is such a popular way to get people to buy things. If we didn't want one of something why would we suddenly want more than one of them? Though this is usually used on television to sell citrus-based cleaning products, it has spread to the auto market. You've probably heard about the dealership in Illinois selling a Chrysler Pacifica at MSRP ($39,000) and throwing in a lightly used 2008 PT Cruiser for $1. It looks like it worked because three people took them up on the offer. It's not a great deal when you consider that no one, ever, has paid full price for a Chrysler Pacifica. Today, Didorosi wrote about a real instance of a fake-sounding event from The Fast And The Furious , which is like two-for-one if you think about it. You get both Fast and Furious . And with Dearthair and TheEastBayKid , we get two COTDs for the price of one. First, from Dearthair: Oh I love Fast and the Furious! It's like a giant game of...
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When people think of Impressionist painting they tend to think of French dudes like Monet and Cezanne whose portraits and landscapes cover the walls of the Art Institute of Chicago. Though the French deserve credit for Impressionism, the rest of the world followed the style set forth by the near-sighted Frenchmen. The style spread from San Francisco to Istanbul, from Cairo to San Juan, and even to Warsaw, Poland, where painter Władysław Podkowiński embraced the form. His most famous work is, arguably, Szał Uniesień (or A Frenzy of Exulting ), which was fairly well received by the Polish audience. His most notorious painting is probably Ecstasy , which was shown in Warsaw for about a month before Podkowiński decided he didn't like it anymore and ripped it to shreds with a knife, though we've never understood quite why he decided to attack his own work. He died soon after of TB, at the age of only 29, so it is possible he was just going nuts. Or, you know, maybe he was inebriated...
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The ulnar collateral ligament is the bit of robust tissue attached to the middle part of your thumb (the metacarpophalngeal joint) which allows that particular finger to move so dexteriously and attain victory in skilled thumb-to-thumb combat. Injuring it is a major downer and often causes a serious decrease in functionality. The most common issue is claled "Gamekeeper's Thumb" in honor of the gamekeepers in Scotland who often got the injury from dispatching rabits with a blow from their outstretched finger (it's also called Break Dancer's Thumb). If you've ever driven your thumb at high speed into a table and bent it backwards, that was the UCL you were injuring. When we asked you today to give the 2010 Mustang a thumbs up or down we recieved a response from Boosted Lego Wagon that indicated not only his feelings about the Mustang, but also the strength of his ulnar collateral ligament. WTF HVE U DUN W/ TEH ECO-BST? V8? NO THX MEH. TRBO-LOLZ? OMG, WTB. IDK WUT...
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Anthropomorphism is a type of personification in which something non-human is given the traits or characteristics of a man (or woman). With Christmas television programming around the corner we're getting ready to see a lot of freaking anthropomorphism. Reindeers who can feel jealousy, snowmen who can feel loss and candy canes that can feel horror, fear and pain as their tasty, minty lifeblood is sucked out of them by kids seeking a quick yuletide sugar fix. Though he didn't found the idea, Aesop is perhaps best known for the use of anthropomorphism in his many fables such as The Tortoise and The Hare , The Cat and the Mice and The Town Mouse and Bob Lutz . Today we reported on the curious story of Toyota and the Wallpaper , to which SmalleyXB122 provided an explanation that utilizes anthropomorphism. Looking for a career change, Zero was transferred from the APR department of the financing division to the common sense department of the legal division. Screeeewwwweeed byyyyyy Zeroooooo...
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It's been said Yugoslavian President-for-Life Josip Broz Tito fathered at least 15 children by numerous women, though it's quite possible there were many more. Could you blame him? He held together Croats, Serbs, Slovenians, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bosnians almost entirely with the force of his own will, which can be pretty stressful. Not surprisingly, a few of his descendants have gone on to big things. His granddaughter Svetlana Broz is a writer and a cardiologist. Another granddaughter, Aleksandra Broz, is a famous actor working and living in Croatia. In the former Yugoslav republics, it's pretty good to be a Broz unless you work at the Yugo plant, where the last Yugo just rolled off the line. Given how many Tito relatives out there in the world, we've highlighted Graverobber 's Yugo jokes to lighten the mood a bit. I once bought a Yugo with a tow package. ...It was in the front. Q. Why does a Yugo have rear a window defroster? A. To keep your hands warm as...
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There are many things to love about Chicago, a city second-to-none in the hearts of many...mostly all who live in Chicago. With the recent rise of a Chicagoan to the presidency we assume things will only get better. The beer will be colder and the women will be warmer. Who knows, maybe even the Cubs will learn not to choke in the post-season. Actually, they almost certainly will. But it doesn't matter, Wrigley will still be a great place to see a ball game. The only thing we don't expect to happen is the Chicago postal service getting any better. As wonderful as Chicago is, they're still stuck with a postal service unable or unwilling to complete the only task we really expect it to carry out: delivering the mail. Nothing can correct the stunning lack of incompetence and overabundance of nepotism that makes delivering a package to Chicago something that requires diligent prayer. We're waiting for Friedman, who thinks we should give the bailout money to Tesla , and his mighty...
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It's been a full Maximum Minivan Day here at Jalopnik, we're already waiting our next chance in 25 years so we can do it all over again. We brought you rusty Caravans , dusty history , smart cars and Nissan vans of mysterious origin . What you brought with you was the spirit and the stories of this modern minivan life. There were many great stories involving youths and Aerostars, but we think Beta.Rogan 's tale deserves to be COTD for its touching prose and reference to a 1980s Toyota Van. When I was a young man growing up in the urban landscape that is Baltimore City, we had a ritual. Skateboard, all day, everyday. For a brief time period there was a skate park located a bit outside the city, north of Towson, simply called "Lutherville" since it resided on the tennis courts of Lutherville Elementary school. For the summer or two that it was there, my friends and I would pile into Jim and Charlie's parent's Toyota Van. We were all too young to drive, but their...
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