February 2012
6 posts
Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?
Today I saw a guy trying to simultaneously downshift his Porsche Carrera, change lanes, dial his Blackberry and figure out where the hell he was.
“Beverly Hills is down the hill!”
– PRETTY WOMAN
“It’s finished on the goddamned map!”
– SPEED
January 2012
7 posts
“Honk! If you’ve been saved!”
– Worst license plate frame to be stuck behind ever.
Running late in the morning
My wife: Don't drive too fast trying to get to work on time!
Me: Don't worry, I can't!
This episode of SouthLAnd would be called "Near...
On the morning of Christmas eve, someone hit our brand new car, dragging a long gouge into the driver’s side door, so deep you could see sunlight through it.
Yesterday, repairs finally complete and with a rare day off, I drove from the body shop in Pasadena to Koreatown to pick up my wife from work. Five blocks later, a guy blew through an intersection where he had a stop sign but we...
Missing scene from DRIVE
STANDARD: I was thinking of trading her in for a new car. Something fast and cheap.
DRIVER: You can’t have both.
STANDARD: Alright then, fast.
DRIVER: Something like that Buick over there’ll cost you nine grand but there isn’t much point in a city where you can’t drive faster than sixty five.
“Drive like everyone is trying to kill you and you’ll be all right.”
– MY MOM
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
– BRET EASTON ELLIS, Less Than Zero
Not afraid to merge: on driving, Drive, Los...
During the first year I lived in Los Angeles, two things happened: 1) We drove north on the 110 through Downtown on a Saturday night and got stuck in stop-and-go traffic, keeping stuttered time just ahead of a flat-bed tow truck. I was in the passenger seat when the truck nosed forward, its cargo sliding slowly into view: An oversized SUV with deeply tinted windows, shiny spinning rims — and...