Microthink...............................................

Eventually, we will realize the only possible way to continue our obsession with individualized transportation is to visualize ourselves in lil motorcycles with wraparound fairings. This is a microcar---it is European (as our N. American captains of industry caved on this concept....) and makes sense if you drive it like a sensible European surrounded by others grounded in some antithesis of road rage. Tho' I'm social science-oriented, I can't see an imminent solution to THAT problem on the left coast. So....back to the cars! http://www.microcarmuseum.com/what-a-find/index.html

I was originally impressed by the Dixie Pro Stocks precicely because they weren't that rather 'blow'-fueled mindset of the '70's-'80's. Small-scaled circuit riders have been a comfort to me ever since.
The Dixie Pro Mods continue to this day. I use them as a barometer to measure the sustainability of local creature features. The old pro stockers with 'Big Daddy' Kane had a roster of some 30 cars---mostly what peeps these days would ID as T/S class vehicles i.e., as good as good gets for a good time Sunday. The latest version boasts 20 teams who have entered photo profiles within their PR efforts. Follow them at the promodsource.com site. Celebrate their obscurity, the obscure, sustainable southeast tracks they play at....the possibilities they didn't have to put together more than the magic economic formula of 'three people with good jobs' to pay for it all .....

Barefoot Perididdle..............Tribe.net continues to be down for an extensive thrash; Instead of my usual hour on that social network for freaks, I'll make overdue time to throw some spiel: I continue to luddite myself through life with decade-old Compaq, Gateway and other frankenstein'd tower stacks. The only exception is my recent Verizon doohickey with three bajillionpixies of expression. Consequently, my short stack of nostalgia photos will join cameraphone shots(!) on http://www.flickr.com/people/15337822@N02/ I also opened a community webshots stills-site, inspired by EthelKilledFred's work there for the BSR. Gives any downtime this winter an outlet--not that I'm expecting much of THAT, enroute this AM to get my SEIU card.....

EKF is chasing down any possible remaining written code of conduct the Brotherhood of Street Racers might possess. Why I brought it up to him in the first place is beyond me; the recent death of Slick Rick---Mr. Motorcycle Show and Go of the BSR--was disconcerting and seemed preventable....at the time. Further retrospect tells me a power greater than....blahblahblah...well, that knows more about it than me..was orchestrating at that moment. Telling anyone anything about the Brotherhood is passing along oral history at this point. While I'm doing that, I'll toss in Safety Safari tales of Wally Parks. Now that the Abner Doubleday of Drag Racing is not available to gently lead, my generation (oh, gawd!) has some responsibility for getting this right. Wally and Big Willie had essentially the same goals-and both were colors-wearing Brotherhood members......