More of what your askin for.....

THIS WEEKS PINUP FROM THE OLD WEBSITE:

www.Buzzmachine.com

one of my very favorite blogs in the whole world is Buzzmachine.com -partially because Jeff Jarvis is a kindred Jersey spirit who speaks his mind, and partially because he is just so possessed of common sense. go there, visit it, read what Jeff has to say. In fact, Ill save you the trouble. IF you are reading my blog, and checking out what it is I do and think and say, then what you are about to read is VERY pertinent to you - wether you realize it or not. this post isnt picture heavy, there are no half naked chicks, or cool cars or my usual ranting, but what this post is, is IMPORTANT. Read it here or go to Jeffs blog and read it on his page - www.buzzmachine.com

Enjoy:

T

Plug? Ad? Opinion? Life?

October 8th, 2009

Is this a story or an ad? It matters.

I went to Radio Shack today to buy wires and plugs to hook up my iPhone because the damned car radio has no plug and the damned FM kluges don’t work. I bought the wrong wires, realized it immediately, and returned in minutes to exchange them. Radio Shack, as it its irritating habit, demanded my phone number, name, and address. I refused. It was a cash exchange. The guy hassled me and then, on the fourth attempt, finally told his computer that I’d refused, which he could have done in the first place. I cursed myself for not going to Best Buy, where they don’t take your blood type to make a transaction; one of the reasons I like Best Buy is its no-nonsense return policy. They care about satisfied and returning customers over irritating rules. I tweeted that here. Now I’m blogging about it.

OK, so I just said something nice about Best Buy and something critical about its competitor. Look on my disclosures page and you’ll see that I had a business relationship with Best Buy. A few weeks ago, because of my book, they paid for me to come speak to various groups over two days (which I quite enjoyed and which taught me a lot about retail, which I’ve been contemplating and want to write about).

So is what I just said about Best Buy an ad? An endorsement? A testimonial? Or just a story and my opinion? I leave that to you to decide and trust you with that decision. My integrity and relationship with you depends on what you decide. I disclose my relationship for that reason. I believe in transparency and recommend it – in my book – to companies, governments, and journalists. So is this story an ad for my book? That, too, is up to you to decide.

But now the Federal Trade Commission is getting in the middle of our relationship. It has issued vaguely worded rules – amazing that they’re still vague after 80 pages – that make we wonder and worry whether my disclosure is adequate – should ever tweet carry a caveat? – and whether Best Buy will make my observations accurate (what if they give a customer a hassle on a return and that customer complains I misled him?). Best Buy, in turn, might need to worry about what I say about them.

Note that if I were writing for The New York Times – if I were, say, David Pogue – the FTC would not regulate my speech in this manner. First Amendment, you know. The press. But as a blogger, I am now a second class citizen in my speech. The government casts its net over all citizens who now use the tools of the internet to publish – no, to speak. This is a corollary to the debate that’s going on right now over who should be covered under a federal shield law. Who should be under the FTC’s net?

On this blog, that’s my problem and I can handle it. But what about all the huge proportion of the population who are now using the tools of the internet to publish – or what publishers and governments would call publishing when most of them think they’re just using blogs or Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or what comes next so they can talk with their friends – what about them? Now they have to worry about missteps.

Some of you have argued that the FTC is going after deceptive bad guys and that’s good. But what are the unintended consequences? What if one of those unsuspecting “publishers” falls for PayPerPost as Pied Piper and becomes human spam but the FTC sees her as a flim-flam mom? Some of you are pointing to the FCC saying it won’t be mean and it can’t enforce all its regs anyway so we shouldn’t worry – yes, selective enforcement, that’s comforting. But another FTC guy said absurdly that people who review books should return their review copies or they could be in trouble. Which is it? You could be the one person who was fined huge amounts of money because your kid pirated music in your house; you could be the example. Don’t want to take chances? Figure you’re playing it safe?

Welcome to the chill. We all have our own FCC now. Broadcast is an exception to the First Amendment’s prohibition on regulating the press. Now bloggers are, too, because we’re not the press. But we are, aren’t we? See, there are bigger things at stake here than just a few fake Viagra ads. (Mind you, I’m not endorsing Viagra. It’s not working … yet. Now how’s that for disclosure?)

Wow...really?

Arnie, my favorite Austrian Oak...WTF?!

pinups for the week

As promised, (I told you guys earlier, every once in a while Ill do this) we'll put up a few shots from the old pin up page, from the old shop website. Here's this weeks fix junkies! (dont get any on the screen)

T

the latest

Spending some time with Small City Cycles and working out our first motorcycle project.

Yes, we're YEARS late (behind the fashion trend of the discovery channel and all the other mouth breathing jackasses) and we are building a triumph NOT a fucking ugly assed harley ala the O.C. crew, who honestly couldnt find their collective asses with a both hands and flashlight. Anyway, after alot of frame work and considerable groveling on my part, we present the first couple of pics of what will hopefully be a cool bike, that I will never ride. HA!

every now and again..........

....Ill post up a few pics from the old website, when we had an EXTENSIVE pin-up section. Here are a couple to tied you monkeys over for a while.

Bird shit and a newly washed car...

There are times, that new cars actually make sense...

whats cool, circa 1984

Although this kinda thing would more than likely get you loooooooong pussy back in the day, clearly the styling statement didnt stand the test of time.

Guess where all those fuckin rat rods that are being built now are gonna wind up.....

Go easy Bro...

I was rummaging around some old files and came across my original shot of Scrote and Wado doin the drag race thing. R.I.P. my brother - I miss you!

its all fun and games till your little brother cracks his skull

apparently we had nothing better to do in the shop tonight than watch little brother do his immation of spanky spangler. (google it fucktards) -
well at least he didnt need the chair in the end -

is it any wonder Im fucking fat?

OKTOBERFEST countdown.....

Oktoberfest is just around the corner and I for one couldnt be happier! Naga and I prepare now for our yearly pilgrimage to Bako to share the festivities with our Deutsche bruders, shit talk the mud races, eat alot of good food, drink amazing beer made in typical German PERFECT fashion by Jer, and plan world domination. Summers over, and its time for tuetonic tits, fatty foods and drinkin!

A catfight is still a catfight

I think I want to smoke a fatty and jack off now....

LOL anyway you cut it

Fuck me. yet another refuge from the old STOOL rods / CKD crowd.

This horrid assed piece of shit gets the award for mauled crap can of the

month.

Found recently on Egay, whats funny (or sad) is the opening paragraph of

what the mouth breathing jackass owner/builder has to say about the

tin turd he's hocking. Read it for yourself:

1927 chrysler 210 Doctors Coupe, FAST AND FUN!!!!!!!!!
I hate to call this car a rat rod due to the dangerous and poorly executed crap people build under that name, rather it's my interpretation of what a 60's hot rod would be(with some license taken! ).
I am selling this car to take on new projects, I hate to do it and friends are telling me not to sell it, but here it is!!

you may hate to call it a rat rod, and in what laughingly passes for your fucking feeble assed mind you may actually believe the horse shit you've spewed here, but trust someone who has done this longer than you have likely been alive - WHAT YOU HAVE IS A FUCKING RATROD !! You ignorant, good for nothing, shit eating, ass clown!

I wont bore you all with the obviousness of what it is your looking at here, rather Ill simply let you soak in the pics for yourselves.

I swear to whatever invisible man in the sky it is you want to call on, this kinda shit makes me want to pop rivet someones nuts to a bulldozer.

Fucking retard!