It was on this exact date, at this exact time (4:00 pm), in 1998 when I embarked upon my first journey home in my new Trans Am WS6. It was a blistering hot summer day in Westland, and the porters at Red Holman Pontiac had just returned from putting a full tank of gas [...]

There’s another metallic black muscle car in the family. Yesterday, my dad replaced his 2004 GMC Envoy with this:

It’s a 2007 Dodge Charger R/T with the Road/Track Performance Package, which adds more aggressive suspension components, specific exhaust, rear deck wing, front chin spoiler, SRT-8 bucket seats and 20″ chrome wheels (as well as the [...]

After a year’s hiatus, I’ve posted a new edition of the Oddball Oddcast. There’s also a new page where I’ll be keeping the Oddcasts from now on, so click the “Oddcasts” button at the top of the screen to get access to it. It does some checks to see if you’re in my [...]

2007 has been a banner year for CD purchasing for me so far. I swear, I haven’t bought this many CDs in such a short period of time since I worked at a music store — and back then I had the excuse of a 30% employee discount to blame for my constant music purchases [...]

I haven’t really been big into gaming lately; aside from the upcoming BioShock, I’m pretty clueless as to what’s really out there now for the Xbox 360 (my next gen console of choice, or rather the one that I happen to have). Recently when I made a trip to the local video store, I noticed [...]

Over at Yahoo, you can watch the first 8 minutes of Live Free or Die Hard in high def — pretty damn cool. Although this fourth entry in the venerable Die Hard action movie franchise is feared to be a more dumbed-down shadow of the series’ former self, I thought the first 8 minutes [...]

Apparently there have been some “hijinks” at the local EB Games store where I usually shop — the manager of the store embezzled between $50,000 and $70,000 from the company back in 2005. Tasked with making the nightly cash deposits for the store, he routinely went to Kinko’s instead, where he used pink paper [...]

While we were in Miami Beach last week, some random tune jumped into my head, and I started whistling it without realizing what I was doing. It just so happened that it was the opening bars of “Through a Truck/Airport Chase” from Stu Phillips’ Knight Rider score. My dad looks at me and [...]

On June 14th, Flag Day, my wife Apple became an officially naturalized American citizen at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida!
The ceremony was nicely done — including a keynote speech by the director of the USCIS; a music video for “God Bless the U.S.A.,” and of course, the administration of the Oath [...]

In a few days, my dad should be taking delivery of his new Dodge Charger R/T with the Road/Track Performance Package (sounds like a nice Father’s Day present!). To commemorate the occasion, I purchased a Charger in Forza 2 and designed some rear quarter stripes for it, since my dad has talked about doing [...]