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The 10 greatest sports venues {Gadling}
Apr 10th 2011 6:57PM Monza?
LeMans?
Indianapolis?
Daytona?
Monaco?
Bristol?
The Nurburgring?
Estoril?
You could fill this list with motorsports venues alone and yet not one is on it. Make an effort next time.
Officially Official: 2012 Ford Police Interceptor unveiled, second utility model announced {Autoblog}
Mar 12th 2010 4:11PM What is it with the persistence of the myth that police agencies shy away from unibody cars?
The greatest cop car of them all, the 1969 Dodge Polara with the 375-horsepower 440? A unibody. Like virtually every other Chrysler cop car in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
The AMC Matador of Adam-12 fame? A unibody.
The Ford Mustang SSP and Chevy Camaro B4C pursuit specials? Both unibodies.
The current Dodge Charger and the upcoming Chevy cop special from Australia? Unibodies.
The cop shops don't car how a car is constructed, only that they meet their performance criteria and are cheap to buy.
REPORT: Chevrolet Cruze SS being pushed for hard by company insiders {Autoblog}
Dec 3rd 2009 3:41AM Sorry, but the Cruze SS is unlikely to happen -- at least in turbo form.
The dirty secret of the Cobalt SS (and HHR SS and Solstice GXP for that matter) is that the turbocharged Ecotec powering them was really a Saab engine and transmission. Go look at the content sticker on any of those cars and you'll see that the engine and transmission came from... Germany. It was basically the same Ecotec installed in Saabs with some tweaks. And with no Saab around that needs a turbo engine, it's unlikely GM will engineer one. Or build it any place.
Glee: Throwdown {AOL TV}
Oct 15th 2009 2:39PM I keep sticking with this show because of my affection for the early episodes. But it's going downhill fast. The plots aren't just ridiculous, they're not entertaining. The characters are wildly inconsistent -- Quinn's personality shifts four times an episode, Finn is supposed to be a leader but keeps acting like a wimp, Rachel is either ludicrously self-involved or hyper-caring. Pick your characters and go with them.
The fake pregnancy sub-plot needs to be dropped immediately. Put whats-her-name the wife on a bus and get her off the show. They should also get past Quinn's pregnancy quickly... it's just stupid soap opera getting in the way of a high school romantic triangle that's dramatic enough on its own. And it gets in the way of exploring the other characters on the show.
As to the musical numbers, too many of them arise in the show unprovoked. And what's the matter with seeing them actually WORK at making something good as opposed to spontaneous harmonic perfection? And shouldn't someone argue about the choice of numbers? The kids look at the music say "Great" and get on with the number instantly. I'd rather they were fighting about what the club should do and perform and create then about petty romantic issues.
There's a good show in Glee, but it's falling apart. Did the producers shoot their wad in the early episodes? I think maybe they have.
TV Squad Ten: TV's top second bananas {AOL TV}
Feb 25th 2009 12:34AM Barney Fife (Don Knotts) was never a regular on Mayberry R.F.D. So take that back.
And Sheldon isn't a second banana, he's just one banana in the bunch.
2009 Corvette ZR1 starts at $103,300 {Autoblog}
Jun 17th 2008 1:02PM The new Corvette ZR1 is nowhere near the most expensive product General Motors has ever produced.
Between 1930 and 2004 GM's Electro-Motive division produced railroad locomotives... virtually all of which were more expensive than the ZR1 even before factoring in inflation.
So there.
The Office spinoff (Official Speculation Discussion) {AOL TV}
Apr 3rd 2008 1:39AM The obvious spin-off is Darryl in the warehouse. First because Craig Robinson is such a solid center for the series -- he'd probably be more like Andy Taylor in Mayberry (in that he's a good competent guy) rather like Michael in Scranton (who's a brilliant buffoon).
Darryl wouldn't have to stay in Dunder-Mifflin's warehouse. Maybe he gets a job running a warehouse in Pittsburgh or Wilkes-Barre or South Jersey. And he apparently has a family on The Office, which could open up more possibilities.
I'm thinking this spin-off would be close to something like the way The Jeffersons was spun off All In The Family without the moving-on-up aspect. Not only in that, obviously, Darryl is black (er, African American) but in how a character moves to a completely different sort of show.
I wouldn't want it to be a traditional sitcom. But I would like it to be about a solid, attractive character and the wacky world around him. Darryl is it.
More trouble for Kid Nation {AOL TV}
Aug 31st 2007 9:48PM Actually its not that it's "fake" that's the problem. It's that in asking the kids to fake or recreate anything, the producers have undeniably turned them into performers. And as performers they should have been protected and subject to all union rules.
If there's any time any adult on that set -- and it was a set, not a summer camp -- asked the kids to do anything to facilitate the production that kids didn't do spontaneously, then they're acting under direction of the production. They are, in short, acting.
There's nothing wrong with acting per se. But it puts the lie to the idea that the entire enterprise was anything except the television production it was.
It wasn't a summer camp.
Nicolas Cage as Magnum P.I.? {AOL TV}
Aug 26th 2007 12:18AM No. No. No. A thousand times, dear God, no!
Bring back Selleck. Let him be as good as he's capable of being. Let Nicolas Cage play the evil heir to the Robin Masters fortune who's trying to destroy Magnum in much the same way that Masters supported him.
There's my pitch. Please have the studio send me a check.
30 Rock: Fireworks {AOL TV}
Apr 7th 2007 3:30AM As zany as this show is, I thought this latest episode was even better for showing how it doesn't have to be zany to be good.
Liz's new boyfriend Floyd is a solid character. More grounded than the other characters on the show, he still has a robust wit and silly side. He's exactly the sort of guy you'd hope the Liz character would wind up with -- a bulwark against the storm of her every day. It may just be that 30 Rock can be, dare I say it, romantic and kind of sweet. Without ruining the show.
