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getfast

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Attempting to live the dream. So far so good...

My Interests

Shiny objects. Loud machines that go fast around corners. Nice and/or fun people who can keep up. Hot coffee, cold green tea, web sites on the internets, digital photography with complicated equipment I can't afford, cooking with garlic and/or cilantro and/or thai basil, fresh water ultralight catch and release sportfishing, furry creatures who like to play fetch, and much more.

I'd like to meet:

Locals. Rollers. Not waxers.

Music:

Cake, Soul Coughing, old B-Boys, Agents of Good Roots, much fifties jazz, most drum'n'bass crushers, plenty of classic rock, and any other song I can rock out to in the car. If you can't find tunes you like on my iPod, we probably won't ever be friends.

Movies:

Le Mans, Grand Prix, Gumball Rally, Cannonball Run, Mischief 3000, Swingers, Oceans Eleven & Twelve, and whatever blockbuster.com sends in the mail.

Television:

Local news is about all I have time to watch.

Books:

Everything by Hunter S. Thompson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Carroll Smith.

Heroes:

Randy Pobst, Tim Suddard, Chris Cobetto.

My Blog

1000+ dead on VAs highways in 07 - all avoidable!

So we Virginians broke a record over the weekend, and none of us should be happy about it.  1002 people have died as a result of traffic crashes on Virginia's roadways so far in 20...
Posted by getfast on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:01:00 PST

We have a serious problem with driver attention in this country

To everyone who operates a motor vehicle on public roads: I need you to pay more attention to what you're doing behind the wheel, mmmkay?  Kill yourselves in your cars if you must, but please kee...
Posted by getfast on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:56:00 PST

Here's to you, Antonin Scalia

Miller Brewing Company had a long-standing "Real Men of Genius" ad campaign that was always good for a laugh.  But the real world is full of these men, doing the best they can for the betterment ...
Posted by getfast on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:08:00 PST

one of the neatest things about spring in Richmond

One sunny April afternoon in the early 1990's when I was a teenager and becoming an avid fisherman, I was at the James River's Williams Island Dam on Riverside Drive and happened to not...
Posted by getfast on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:09:00 PST

some priceless works of art have wheels

So yesterday at VIR, among perhaps a hundred million dollars worth of one of a kind handbuilt racing sportscars, was something even better: a handbuilt racing sportscar that just h...
Posted by getfast on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:21:00 PST

art-with-wheels on Browns Island yesterday

What a nice day to park 300+ british and european cars on the lawn! Click here to see my pics (and the link to Dave's pics.) A taste: ...
Posted by getfast on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:53:00 PST

A sportscar fanatic experiences NASCAR!

Thanks to Chris Kimmelshue and Matt Becherer, we scored all access credentials for this weekend's NASCAR races at Richmond International Raceway.  Needless to say, it was very interesti...
Posted by getfast on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:36:00 PST

RIP Doctor Gonzo

reproduced without permission from_Cycle World_ magazine, May 1995:"Song of the Sausage Creature"by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson(July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005)There are some things nobody needs in this ...
Posted by getfast on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

unexpection (RIP Heidi 1990-2005)

So yeah, my weekend wasn't that good. Saturday morning on my fifth lap of Summit Point's new Shenandoah Circuit, the steering broke in a right hand turn and I drove into a concrete wall wide open in 3...
Posted by getfast on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST