Sean Connery just doesn’t make crap movies. Nor does Tom Hanks, really, or not since he left that dog of an actor, Hooch, that was letting him down. George Lucas, obviously, is another good example of foolproofishness.
Nice driving, gene-ius
at 1:54 pm on Monday November 2, 2009
It’s a dark day for competent motorists everywhere. According to a recent study, ineptitude behind the wheel may, in fact, be genetic.
The results of the study, posted on Live Science’s website, reveal that some of us may possess a bad driving gene, making us prone to automotive dodginess and car accidents.
Perhaps this is how Mother Nature weeds [...]
Are we world’s worst drivers?
at 5:11 pm on Monday October 26, 2009
Some people go to Paris for the art, the food (snails taste far less like snot than you’d imagine) and the architecture, but I say Pepe le poo poo to all that, because I go to watch the traffic.
The Arc de Triomphe is rightly famous as a gigantic representation of France’s fantastic record of victories [...]
Living legends
at 11:48 am on Thursday October 22, 2009
What, or who, makes a legend? Depending how dictionarily anal you are, you might suggest that no one can be a legend until they’re dead, but we can defy that definition with two words – Steve and Waugh.
To hell and Bathurst
at 5:28 pm on Wednesday October 7, 2009
War correspondents love to lord it over merely mundane journalists. They have their photos taken as often as possible while wearing flak jackets and camouflaged Stackhats. They drink hard liquor, straight, with ever-so-slightly shaky hands and, without any actual provocation at all they’ll let you force them into discussing danger and courage under filing.
Pah. I [...]
The horns of a dilemma
at 4:48 pm on Friday September 18, 2009
New York, the world’s greatest city, is a truly unique place with its own smells; burning pretzels, cordite, hot dogs, its own vertiginous views and a distinct, non-stop soundscape. Surprisingly, it’s not the thud of gunshots or sirens, it’s the sound of car horns, most of them attached to yellow taxis, of which there are [...]
Heel and toe dancing
at 5:52 pm on Friday September 11, 2009
If anyone ever complained to me about how they miss the good old days of motoring, when you had to double declutch and using a gearbox was like waving a magic wand at a vault of bolts and hoping for the best, I’d ask them to sit down, and whether they’d been in touch with [...]
Straight pimpin’
at 11:52 am on Wednesday September 2, 2009
Now, to you and me, the idea of spending $20,000 turning a Daihatsu Charade into something that looks like an inside-out chocolate orange might seem lightly absurd, but there are people out there – a surprising number of them in fact – who consider this the height of cool.
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