FREE INYOKERN! ....................................................................................................................................As I'm trying to break from backissues of life (housing, work, partners, goats...) I'll take a few minutes to confirm my ulterior motives: corrupt a largely redneck-populated formal sport into the joys of neo left coast 21st cent. alternative fuel-powered drag racing with a pagan twist. HAR!
The imminent demise of a perfect venue for such activity has me bunched. Fifty one years of serene Dust Devil activity on a barely used tarmac is coming to an end. The east Kern county strip is worthy, if anything is, of historical site sanctuary. The blatent bigotry against technical ecstacy by the GMan referenced in the LA Times dated Oct. 10th '05 grates me no end. At the least, a lawsuit and desist order pending examination of the airport's contributions to the community rates. At the most.....but, bracket racers with 40 grand diggers and 120 grand mobilee homes aren't really civil disobedience types....or are they?

Not much to add, except Jeff Burk published an editorial dated today that shared his freakin' feeeeeeelings about the sport, the politics and the grassroots alts to that expensive high end that gets all the ink. With FTN and any other print zine facing the preverbial wall when deviating from the marketing norms, I give Burk my blessings for remembering and reinterating that this sport started at the roots and will survive there long after the majors have bankrupted their teams and sancioning bodies.