
Vintage Funny Car Line Up
Like their Top Fuel counterparts but with a shorter wheelbase and a carbon-fiber body that loosely resembles a production-based automobile, Funny Cars routinely run in

Another Look at Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures
Around the time she started working on a 2018 gallery show for Girl Pictures, a set of gorgeous portraits of teenage girls at play, shot

two fingers is all it takes
In American saloons of the Old West, you would order whiskey by the width of the bartender’s finger. For example, if you asked for two

Wait, Worf was Officer Jebediah Turner on CHiPs ?
Seriously, I was today years old when I learned that Michael Dorn played Officer Jebediah Turner in all but the very last season of CHiPs.

I define me
“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes

A Huey Landed in the Imperial City of Huế
A Huey (Bell UH-1 Iroquois) on the ground at the Imperial City of Huế in Vietnam back in 1967. https://psyne.blog/product/vietnam-veteran-award-ribbons-1965-vintage-mens-t-shirt/

1979’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
This film is a throwback to a time when teen movies weren’t profound explorations of angst-ridden suburbanite kids. Nor is it quite like the foray

Nice Harley, ever take it off any sweet jumps?
Nice Harley, ever take it off any sweet jumps? I’m not sure that Harley’s are meant to fly, but this guy seems to feel otherwise…

How to Become a Regular at a Texas Dive Bar
I started writing professionally about bars in Texas sixteen years ago, concentrating on my favorite category of watering hole, the dive bar, mainly because it

The Cantlay & Tanzola and Western Gillette Motor Freight Story
Ran across this cool article on Western Gillette Motor Freight and Cantlay & Tanzola in an old issue of The Lufkin Line, the newsletter from

The 1979 Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island
At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, one of the worst accidents in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure

The Gambler 500 Rally Is about Trash and Fun, Not Necessarily in That Order
When I first met Tate Morgan a few years ago, the founder of the Gambler 500 was munching on some snacks from a Meow Mix