Cars & Rides

So, last week I got in my car at around 9 pm to run to Vons and grab some late-night blogging snacks (I like to go with beef jerky and M&Ms, although in a pinch Goldfish crackers will do), when my car started making this absolutely HORRIFIC noise. It sounded like a belt, and it …

Those weird birthday feelings I experienced this morning apparently weren't completely unfounded, as the Birthday Heard Round the World is actually happening today: Second-coming-of-Canadian-Christ Justin Bieber FINALLY 18 years old. According to The Daily Mail, however, his birthday wasn't rung in with a statistics exam, a misshapen chocolate cake, and a pack of cigarettes (as …

Hey everyone, look! It's another massive, death-defying new stunt in the middle of nature, just like I always dreamed of trying watching from my computer chair with a Snuggie on! This video appears to have been made by the same cinematic geniuses behind THIS "super cool" stunt video. You can tell because of the almost …

What concerns me most about this video isn't that they have clearly greased the floor of a children's arcade, or that this kid is one wrong move away from flipping that thing and shattering his skull, or the strangely depressing Metric song in the background. It's the fact that there are several people that walk …

Sure, this might not be to the caliber of a man climbing out of an airplane and hanging on to the wing while it rolls and then sky diving from it, but it's definitely a close second, right? No? Ugh, I can't even tell anymore. My impressive sensors are now completely out of whack.

I'm glad that we were able to scrape up one last "no thank you" daredevil video of the year. They popped up everywhere in 2011, from the Human Slingshot to the Aqualoop, those crazy Frenchies and OH YEAH that OTHER SLINGSHOT, and each one left my heart and stomach in a pile of vomit in …

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo. NO. NO NO NO NO NO A MILLION TIMES NO. My question is, what do you do when you're too old to tightrope to the middle of a canyon and hurl yourself into the abyss? Can you ever sit …