Bugatti Chiron 0-400-0 record

Imagine if they had put a thinner guy in there. Zing!

Going to Richmond, Virginia

Next week, we will be in Richmond, Virginia, for my wife's high school reunion. It's a small Southern city with a lot of history. It was once the capital of the Confederacy. The biggest mansions are along Monument Avenue. There have been calls, of course, to take them down.

If this promotional video is to be believed, the town has been taken over by hipsters. So there's hope!

Ken Burns Vietnam War documentary

Watching this 10-part, 18-hour series has been gut wrenching. I just watched Episodes 5 and 6 last night. I've been in a funk all day today as a result. The atrocities. The futility. The waste of hundreds of billions of dollars on helicopters, fuel, and ammo. Everything was just so fucked up.

The documentary is paired with dozens of iconic songs, like this one.

 

Fish processing machine

JFK McNamara at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 1962

Best North Korea documentary out there

I've been searching for and watching North Korean videos on YouTube for a decade now, and this one is by far the best. A Canadian tourist exhaustively chronicled his trip there. The first half takes place in Pyongyang. The second half takes place in secondary and tertiary cities. It's fantastic and is definitely worth watching.

H/t to Ramon!

Pontiac 6-wheeler

I heard Tony Quiroga (Car & Driver) interviewed on The Smoking Tire podcast and checked out his Instagram feed.

The #Pontiac #grandamma  #caranddriver #aprilfools #1990 #jokes

A post shared by Tony Quiroga (@guaupants) on Sep 21, 2017 at 12:56pm PDT