Check out my Flickr gallery for tons of personal content from my Redbull weekend. We even caught up with Yoshioka and went out with him in Hollywood. Sadly he was not a seeded driver over the Redbull weekend but he came as a spectator. During the event the wildfires ripped through Los Angeles and caused some amazing colors and look to the sky along with some ash all over everything.
So after all the Chris Rado drama that was started by this post http://wreckedmagazine.com/blog/2008/10/24/chris-rado-ready-to-leave-the-sinking-ship-spotted-drift-testing/ and left me and Chris as frienemies or something? I’ve been watching to many teen dramas and TMI weekly lately (sorry). We talked it out and I told him he could come on the site and say whatever he would like. Above is his 5+ minute interview where he told us he is building a Toyota RWD factory drift car that isn’t a “Scion.” This sounds pretty interesting, for those of you still bent out of shape about the Chris Rado incident, check out the interview, hear the guy out at least. I cared so much that I conducted the interview instead of Kelly. Truthfully, somewhere between the last booth and Chris Rado’s interview she quit for like 5 minutes so I suffered it out with no voice, sick, dead, and no sleep. So bare with me on that part. I cannot wait to see him in Tony Angelo’s S13 this weekend at Redbull for his first public runs at Pro Am. Don’t miss it this weekend.
So I have so much I need to talk about. SEMA 2008, the death spiral of General Motors, LA Auto Show, new content, and new features across Wrecked Magazine. We even have tons of new and excited stuff going on at Wrecked’s parent PM Lifestyle right now as well. So I haven’t forgotten about you blogites, great stories are coming soon. Right now I have to tackle some P/L charts, clean up the palace, and pay our 31-60 day late utility bill that was buried on my desk under some Fuze bottles and misc. credit card offers. And yes, that is me laying dead on Thursday at SEMA and Evan from Exedy sitting on top of me. I have no idea what is going on, who took this picture and why it’s on my blog. Ok this post is done.
Bob from Urban Racer invited me to come out to a Mazda event at this crazy futuristic green gas station in Los Angeles. The event with MazdaSpeed and BP was about the future of fuel and most importantly a focus on Bio-Butanol. Here is a sign they have in the corner of the BP Station.
The event was very exciting and informative. Even Patrick Dempsey showed up in his Porsche GT3 RS to find out what was going on. Bob put together a great story on Urbanracer.com about the event. Go on over and check it out.
I am a Pinkberry convert to YougartLand. Pinkberry was a must stop for me on trips to the LA area. YougartLand is way better and the price point is spot on. You pay 30 cents an ounce for any toppings you would like and any variety of twelve flavors you can pick. How can you go wrong with that?
The decor and trendiness of this place is very cool and relaxed but it’s not so overbearing it gets in your way or annoys you as most new “cool” places seem to do. It’s basically an a la carte vending machine version of all the other yogurt places you have ever been inside. You just fill up with whatever flavors you want (plain tart is my favorite) and then make your way to the toppings. They have a variety of fresh fruits and assorted goodies like Lucky Charms for your mix-in choices. Unlimited toppings and flavors that you put in your bowl and no matter what you have selected you just shell out the .30 cents an ounce and your good to go. What an amazing and simple concept! Are you paying attention Cold Stone, Pinkberry, etc…. because if not, you should be. This place is your bankruptcy ticket if they go national.
Yogurt-land.com Yelp Review
Style: Frozen Yogurt
Neighborhood: Long Beach
5710 E 7th St
Ste B2
Long Beach, CA 90803
(562) 986-7546
Here is a photo gallery from my trip to Los Angeles for Irwindale. This gallery includes everything that went on aside from the at track events of Irwindale Speedway. Just a quick gallery including a stop by a Mazda event on Olympic/Robertson in downtown Los Angeles which had that amazing parking sign I photographed above. Needless to say I was parked on the street feeding the meter, no good free parking spot for me.
Check this gallery out I put together from my SMX trip to New York City. I had a blast over the last few days and have some really cool pictures from the whole trip. I stayed right at 43rd and 8th Ave. which is the heart of the Hell’s Kitchen/Theater District. I had a ton of fun walking around at night and just exploring the big city. Don’t forget to view the whole gallery on my Flickr account and make sure to add me as a friend.
Well I survived Monday of the Search Marketing Expo in New York City and I reviewed the three big sessions I attended. Later on the PM Lifestyle site I will be reviewing some great non session things I have been doing after the conference. The two big things of day one were what is new in video search marketing and what is new and big in social media marketing. I put together three reviews that you should check out over my first day. I also have a Flickr account going for my whole NYC trip that will be updated everyday.
While trolling around Mission after a day of work up north we needed some food and our friend recommend Zeitgeist….how that made sense I have no idea but we went anyway. Grilled cheese sandwiches baby at a great price with some home fries that were a tad spicy but still delicious for a dive bar by all means. The one funny thing about the food system is I watched a girl in front of us take someone’s food that wasn’t hers, then I stole the girls food which I figured out later…..very confusing delivery process I guess? Luckily they have two things on the menu so just steal your food early.
Drinks very good and fairly priced for SF and I loved the outdoor patio. I definitly had plenty of SXSW flashbacks while inside this place. Although much of my SXSW experience can be written off a a blur I want to say the place has a vibe very similar to Emo’s which hosts some of the biggest bands all week in Austin, Texas.
Parking wasn’t even that horrible as we found a place right under the 101 next to Black Heart Tattoo which is right next door. Yelp Review
Style: Drink/Random Food/Eat Outside
Type: Dive Bar
Neighborhood: Mission
Location:
199 Valencia St (at Duboce Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 255-7505
