Note: Car and Driver has just published their first issue of 2010, with a new Editor, a new look, and a new vision. This is a repost from an earlier version of my blog. I have made a minimal number of edits. Since I was five years old, one of the greatest pleasures of my [...]

Happy Halloween! As a way of celebrating (lame excuse), I have decided to review one of my favorite breakfast cereals from my childhood – Franken Berry. I say from my childhood because like many middle-aged people, I have long graduated from colorful, sugary kid cereals to sober, unsweetened mixtures of granola, whole grains, and tree [...]

Tomorrow, I will be driving to Dallas to begin a road trip with my friend Charles Braden. Sadly, though we keep in touch through email, we rarely see each other anymore and based on our particular life circumstances, it doesn’t look like it is going to get better anytime soon. So, Charles invited me to [...]

Saw the midnight showing of the new 007 flick Quantum of Solace last night. A review is forthcoming, but I will tell you that despite some criticisms, I feel like the movie delivered on its promise to kick seven different kinds of ass. I was off today, so I have spent quite a lot of [...]

On Saturday night, Mrs. Pribble and I walked into the Old San Francisco Steak House, her for the first time and both of us for the last. The Old San Francisco Steak House (OSF) had been bought and would close its doors forever on Sunday, after 25 years in business. Remarkably, except for some very small details, everything [...]

So, what happened between November 2005 and May 2006? Well, in no particular order, here is some of the stuff that happened. In every almost every case, I fully intended to write about the event…but didn’t. Over the next couple of weeks, I might go back and expand on these things, but if I don’t, I have [...]