Evening Reading
- Your multivitamin is a waste of time
- Great carrier reef
- AT&T being fussy
- DaVinci movie continues crazy press
- The E3 games without lines :(
- Spaceport race!
Lastly, the fear of DVR machines for advertisers is reaching new heights.
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sgtsanity
replyI'm not a big car guy, but I did find this article about the cultural precursors, diffusion, and evolution of lowriding to be pretty interesting.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/05/bajito_y_suavec.html
Sociologists believe lowriding is a modern incarnation of the traditional Mexican paseo (promenade), an ancient social ritual in which the unmarried adolescents of the village coyly circled the town square, boys on one side, girls on the other. East LA Cholos adapted this ritual for the automobile age, and begat a brand new American tradition –cruising the strip. When you ‘scooped the loop’ or ‘dragged main’ or ‘cruised the strip’ back in high school, you were participating in an echo of that South-of-the-Border courtship rite.
It's absolutely facinating to see the dichotomy at college between Johnson County, where such automobile-related cruising was entirely non-existent, and everywhere else in Kansas, where it was much, much more popular. In fact, the rural-suburban divide is easily the biggest factor in campus culture while remaining rather subtle in most circumstances.
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