Category Archives: Musings

Yesterday, I tried as best I could to find some humorous way of recapping this past Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega.  After all, that’s my stock in trade.  Bring the funny.  It’s what I do.  It’s what I like … Continue reading →

I haven’t spent nearly as much time over here as used to be the case.  It’s not for any lack of interest in NASCAR or absence of discussion material.  Rather, it’s for reasons loftier and darker. When I left SportsBlogs … Continue reading →

Okay, time to shake off this Marshmallow Peeps-induced inertia and see if the racing world is still here… oh, there it is.  Right where I left it.  How special. Anyway, what’s been happening… Read this story from that legendary racing … Continue reading →

(This is also posted on Goldfish And Clowns.) Matt Humphrey of the Orlando Sentinel posted on his blog a short while ago some thoughts about running across a picture of Marty Robbins in his race car.  Matt’s a young’un who … Continue reading →

… I realize I’ll be missing the Bud Shootout next Saturday.  Ah well.  I’m missing it for something better: Come give the kid a listen.  He’s good.  (And I’ll record the race to watch later.)

It’s raining in the Bay Area this morning, drops splashing on the windshield of a wealthy person’s office-bound Lexus piloted at a crawl along chewed-up freeways as surely as they wet the day laborers with heads hung low shuffling on … Continue reading →

It’s very strange. Here it is after midnight, and I’m still up even though I’ll be leaving at the crash of dawn today to drive down to Fontana for NASCAR’s second visit to California Speedway this year. I should have … Continue reading →