kate

we call her addy baddy

anyway we had not intended on keeping a puppy but addy tried to die and my mom said “if she lives, we’re keeping her” and well she lived so here we are

we think? she’s a beagle/chihuahua mix maybe? we honestly have no idea because she and her sibs were found locked in a crate in the woods on the side of a mountain in kentucky so 🙃🙃

a picture of my new puppy (addy)

i’m fine, i’ve been fostering puppies. we are keeping one. it’s been fun, they keep me busy. i’m on a new anxiety medication which i think is helping. now you are caught up

i’m sorry to say i always forget this place exists

The Winner Of History's First Car Race Murdered His Wife In A 'Crime Of Passion' - Jalopnik Albert Lemaître, the winner of the 1894 Paris-Rouen, stood trial for murdering his wife a dozen years after his historic victory, and got away with murder.

I wonder how fast I'm going to regret writing "If his heart broke, you can't send him to the rope" as a bit of levity in a bleak story about how juries were disturbing cool with husbands murdering their wives in 1900s France.

www.jalopnik.com/1932012/winn...

I’m not the only one? A RELIEF (my child is obsessed specifically with Halloween animatronics)

max and seb need a brother?

I MEAN it’s not completely out of the realm of possibilities tbh

in my family it was “xyz was friends with al capone” 💀

i have an email for people to send me stuff that’s linked to my website and through this i’ve learned that a fairly common family legend is “xyz was a riding mechanic in the indy 500”

like it’s hard to feel bad knowing that lack of marketing has been a criticism for like 50 years atp. If Roger is gonna be cheap, then well so be it, I guess

anyway i’ve arrived at this place re: indycar — i’m not getting paid to worry about nor fix the marketing problems and so i’m just not gonna… if this is a sinking ship, well 🤷🏼‍♀️

this is a rhetorical question i do know the answer to it

i just wonder if the people at penske entertainment have figured out yet that getting every race on fox and doing 3 commercials was um. not sufficient to do anything to increase indycar viewership numbers

it’s also why i never get anything done 💀💀💀

my legit favorite thing about doing archival newspaper research is all of the incidental things i find

Too much togetherness!!!

i was just worrying about how many times i can write something about a singular indy 500 before i look stupid 💀

sometimes i get @elizablackstock.bsky.social’s substack and it’s like she’s writing advice just for me 😌

Chat transcript: Indy car should Take the wings off, USAC letting the body extension wing loophole go ruined racing Move the engine to the front, USAC letting that damn Cooper qualify ruined racing Change the engine spec to whatever the Menard/Buick V6 was You got an 1100hp carbon fiber kurtis kraft on modern slicks good luck and gods peed

I can fix Iowa Indy

I also have a second perspective re: this book because ultimately this book is a death investigation too and as a death investigator, I concur with his conclusions and his reasons for those conclusions

I’m so glad DPTJ book club included this book!!!

I’m not exaggerating when I say that The Last Lap changed the lens in which I view the pre-war motorsport period

i love a good motorsport shenanigan and this one doesn’t even get me yelled at (so far)

i’m choosing to not care re: indycar viewership numbers. those are not my goddamn problem (and if you aren’t working for indycar/a team/affiliated otherwise they really aren’t your problem either)

it was me 💀(which means conor daly will not be answering)

He’s superhuman (or about to have a heatstroke)

a mystery