Automotive writer at Silodrome and (formerly) at a number of print magazines.

Joined November 2008
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27 Oct 2025
Going to start a geometry gang if anyone wants to join. We’re going to call ourselves the Hell’s Angles.
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17 Nov 2024
This was a fun story to do! Brad Pitt's R80 custom by Roughchild Customs - up on Silodrome today Link: silodrome.com/brad-pitt-bmw-…
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20 Feb 2024
A little personal news, it looks like I’m going to have to stop putting PhD after my name as I have been informed it does not stand for Pizza Hut Driver.
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You can always tell how annoying someone is by the way they pronounce “croissant.”
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24 Jan 2024
Liking someone’s message then not replying is a polite way of saying the conversation is over and I wish I could also do it in real life
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28 Dec 2023
Bit of a major life update today, finally got my own reserved parking space. Not going to lie, it feels pretty good. Remember to keep hustling, keep grinding, and one day you’ll know what it’s like 💪🏻
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21 Dec 2023
Bought these two books at the airport. Perfect preparation for all those awkward Christmas conversations.
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13 Dec 2023
Someone: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Me:
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13 Dec 2023
I nearly accidentally posted this to the Silodrome account. That would have resulted in some questions 😆
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I just had to do 27 minutes of painfully awkward small talk. I ask for your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.
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28 Oct 2023
I just tried cursive writing for the first time in years and it looks like the cardiogram of someone who isn’t going to make it.
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Ben Branch retweeted
23 Sep 2023
One of the interesting things about the Fetterman dress scandal is that the suit itself was once the gym shorts and hoodie of its day. This part got cut from my Politico op-ed (for good reason; it was getting long and tangential). But when Keir Hardie—a Scottish union leader and co-founder of what would later become the Labour Party—was first elected to Parliament in 1892, he wore a tweed suit, a red necktie, and a deerstalking cap to his first day of work. Today, we think of the suit as a formal garment, the very glass of respectability. But as I've mentioned here before, this was not always so. In the late 19th century, men in high positions—such as those in banking and law—wore the more formal frock coat. Working-class clerks and administrators wore the fustian lounge suit. When Hardie was elected, the proper Parliamentary uniform was a black frock coat, a starched wing collar, and a black silk top hat. Hardie, who was elected to represent the people of West Ham South—a working-class seat in Essex, now Greater London—rejected this uniform because he felt it was the symbol of capital. Instead, he opted to dress like his constituents. Polite society was scandalized. The press was so offended that he wore a deerstalking cap—a flat cap style associated with members of the working class, rather than the silk top hat worn by MPs—one paper wrote: "A cloth cap in Parliament!" I'm not convinced Fetterman is dressing to signal anything (if he was, he would be more vocal about it). As I mentioned in my op-ed, I think he should not only wear a suit in the Senate chamber but even when walking through Congressional halls. Not doing so creates a distraction from more meaningful matters. But being "respectful" of our political system is much more than dressing up. It's about how you serve honorably. You can signal this through your clothes, but someone not wearing those clothes does not necessarily mean they are not fulfilling the more important duties. We should focus more attention on actions, not clothes. But it's an interesting historical point that the suit was, at one point, causing a very similar controversy.
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22 Jul 2023
I’m still hoping I grow up to be Tom Magnum
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21 Jul 2023
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20 Jul 2023
Got caught in the rain while running, but it wasn’t all bad.
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Just set up my new Threads account, add me if you’re on there and I’ll add you back.
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Ben Branch retweeted
I CANNOT TELL YOU LOUDLY ENOUGH, DO NOT LET A CHIROPRACTOR NEAR YOUR GODDAMN NECK. This message brought to you by a neurologist who manages Cervical Artery Dissection and their resulting STROKE.
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I tried to join Impostor Syndrome Anonymous but they said I wasn’t good enough
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21 Mar 2023
I’m not good at golf which means that for me it’s really just a long game of hide and seek with a small ball. And the ball always wins.
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