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| This iPhone panoramic photo ain't too shabby. Good work, me. |
Saturday night, courtesy of
@MaloneHugo, I attended my first NASCAR race, the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway. I had a fantastic time, and would happily go to another race in the future, specifically a night race, because oh my god would I melt and die if I had to sit in the stands during a day race (albino Teej and the sun's deadly rays don't play nice together).
[This post was mainly composed yesterday, when I was not massively hungover, but now I am, which means, even less text than I anticipated. OOOH PRETTY PICTURES.]
Richmond is 90 miles from where I live. It took us three and a half hours to get to a tailgate spot - in an industrial park. Hugo wasn't fucking around, and had the tailgate table below up in less than two minutes. He even brought me ketchup. #Bromance #Swoon
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| Hugo did not mess around with this tailgate, even though it was just the two of us. |
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| Just call me Teej Heston. |
We had great seats - 15 rows up from the track. NASCAR is by far the most fan-friendly sport around - you can bring a cooler in with whatever you want. My cooler has 15 Bud Lights. I drank 5 or so. It was heavy. People get shitfaced, but guess what, they don't get in dumbass fights. They're friendly. They like their particular driver, but they don't try to punch the guy wearing a Kyle Bush shirt in the face. Oh, they also like to take said shirts off. Shirtlessness is a way of life at these races, it seems. But only for the dudes. For shame.
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| Fans just chillin with the drivers, an hour before the race. Absurd. |
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| I took two pictures of pit row. No, I don't know why. |
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| Our seats were pretty phenomenal, 15 rows up between the Start/Finish line and Turn 1. |
It's NASCAR, so you've gotta have a guy parachute in with an American flag. Thanks, Obama.
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| This is not Weenie. But he did this exact same thing Friday night at the Nationwide race. |
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| I'm pretty sure it is a requirement to have a flyover at a NASCAR race. However, folks were very disappointed these were simply bomber planes, not jet fighters. |
I could have a year's worth of "Fashion is Dumb" posts from this race. Below, find just a few choice pics.
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| Yeah, the guy in front of me was rockin' this Duck Dynasty shirt. proudly. |
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| It's hard to see, but that is an inflatable Cheez-It sombrero. I was quite jealous. |
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| Girls, you're missing half your shirts. |
Went to s state fair, and a NASCAR race broke out.
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| Longest line of the night, which I gleefully stood in while pounding a Bud Light. |
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| Deep fried cookie dough is still the top dog, but these deep fried Oreos are a solid #2 seed. |
FAN OF THE NIGHT
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| It's a shame I didn't get a better pic, because this dude was fan of the night. That "hat" actually lit up. |
IT'S REALLY LOUD - this was my attempt to capture the loudness of the race. Seriously, when those cars first fly by, your entire body shakes. I eschewed ear plugs for a walkman, attempting to listen to the race on the radio. I could barely hear the broadcast. My right ear has still not recovered.
Sorry this post was delayed. And that it lacks substance. I'm tired. I've forgotten half the shit I wanted to include in this post.
Anyone have some Advil?
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I have a stream of semi-coherent texts from Teej last night to prove just how shitcanned he was last night.
'MURICA!
Those tasseled/cut off shirts were one of the oddest things about Virginia I discovered when I lived in North Carolina (5 miles from the VA border). Somehow it was fashionable to wear shirts that were altered in this way. Tons of the black guys from SE VA wore shirts like this. Odd. Almost as odd as the trend of wearing leg warmer type socks with your jeans that lots of DC area guys rocked.
I believe they're called WigWam socks. Popular in whiter NJ towns in the late '80s and early '90s.
are those...pre-packaged hamburgers?
. . . and Kleenex? Did somebody have the sniffles?
I'm here to see the tapestries.
Speaking of tapestries, Pi Lam Mike Edwards used to have some in his room in Unit M. He was the lone do-rag-wearing, Dead-listening hippie wannabe in the house. He took much guff for that. I'd spent a bit of time listening to and seeing the Dead in high school, so we hung out, did what you do when you listen to Cornell '77 and such, and took in a few shows.
Hadn't thought about Edwards much of late until last weekend when some neighbors had the Lock'n Festival video streamed to their big screen. (Times have changed for Deadheads.) I saw Furthur play, and Bobby and Phil (with many friends) churned out some great stuff for one more Saturday night.
Mike Edwards died in one of the towers a dozen years ago today. Here's to Mike, and of course our other friend Lud and the many others who perished that day for reasons that remain unfathomable to me. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.
danimal in the house
Literally
He's in my house.
i'd hide your porn. and your cheetos. don't ask.
Hey to Danimal
duck dynasty tag - nicely done. that's top-notch seo, right there. welcome to our new redneck friends. we say that with love. danimal is one of your own. you should feel right at home.
I got some bad sushi today for lunch. My afternoon was extremely unpleasant. Just recently left bed. Gatorade and saltines for this guy!
Cracker factory!
I threw in a parking lot today. That was a new experience.
Threw up. Christ.
Threw up Christ? So you found Jesus! They say you find him in the strangest of places.
there are few things worst than the sober puke. but the baby jesus puke might be one of them.
worst, wurst, worse, whatever.
ben's chili bowl is opening a location in arlington. really not sure how i feel about this.
Gettin wined up in the house of teejus
everything about that race sounded like a lot of fun, except -- judging from the video -- actually watching the race. you see the cars for what, three seconds?
No 'Hi Gheorghies!' from Danimal? Amateur.
It was a little tough at first to follow the action, but that's mainly because you often lost track of the leaders on the course, as they are mixed in with cars that may be 20 laps or so off the pace and are basically clogging the track for the competent cars.
That is why cautions/restarts get folks so fired up - it creates a drag race style d-over for the leaders, until about 5 laps later when they again begin to lap the slow/terrible cars.
Mark...yes, agreed. We were snuggling.
According to ESPN, Mark Sanchez has a torn labia so he won't play this year.
The G-2 summit was a success. I got the scoop on all you feckers. I can't believe they like you people.
birds of a feather, danimal
So the Bucs held a players-only meeting BEFORE Week 1? Gonna be a rough year in Tampa.
GENOCHISE!
Was kidding. I just watched them sleep for an hour or so. Peaceful.
I am laughing outloud.
Very fast I can't see the race but it is nice event.. amanda vanderpool model
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