Today's Challenge: The Road Please post a road pic you took!

Welcome to the Dave's Car ID Service Museum of Art, where today I shall culturally uplift you benighted philistines with a brief review of the Old Masters. No, not those Italian Ninja Turtles, or those Dutch Masters on your grandpa's cigar boxes. I am talking about the Old Masters whose canvases were car bodies. Starting with Von Dutch, who stylistically was less like Rembrandt than Jackson Pollock. In fact he wasn't Dutch at all. Born Kenneth Howard in Compton, CA, in 1929, he learned to professionally letter and pinstripe by age 10 from his sign painter dad. By the early 1950s his wild pinstripes and paint jobs were so ubiquitous in the burgeoning LA hot rod and custom scene that he had become a verb: to have one's car "Dutched." He was very much a bohemian beatnik iconoclast, hermit, and by all account quite a nasty asshole. But with a spark of genius both artistically and mechanically. He built some weirdly fascinating cars and motorcycles, and was a noted gunsmith and knife maker. He also provide the custom car world one of its icons: the Flying Eyeball (1), later adopted by the San Francisco hippie scene for rock posters and underground comics. He first painted one on the tank of his Crocker-powered Indian Scout chopper at age 17. In (2), he's doing his warmup stretches in 1958 for an elaborate pinstripe job on a 1953 Buick; behind him is is personal motorcycle, a 1950 Moto Guzzi Falcone. In #3, 1954, laying one of those elaborate pinstripes on George Barris's 1950 Ford woody wagon. Sadly after Von Dutch died his heirs sold off his name to a douchebag French designer, to be marketed as a hyper douchebag "streetwear" clothing brand, which I guess is coming back into style among Zoomers as an ironically douchebag fashion statement. Actual hot rod and custom people were indignant at this cultural appropriation, though. Throughout car shows in the mid-late 2000s, one would often see the T-shirt "Kenneth Howard Hates You." Yeah, Dutch was a douchebag, but dammit he was OUR douchebag.

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You have to stay in one box for the rest of your life. Which one are you picking?

They claim they’ve found Noah’s Ark, but there’s a problem. The story of Noah appears to be a remix of much older Mesopotamian flood stories, which also describe a man building a vessel to survive a devastating flood. The biblical account appears to reuse many of the same elements in its story of Noah. So even if this boat-shaped structure turns out to be some kind of ancient vessel, how could anyone prove it belonged specifically to Noah? Where is the evidence connecting it to him? It feels like they want it to be Noah’s Ark because it fits their biblical narrative, not because the evidence actually proves it. You cannot find something shaped like a boat and attach a biblical name to it just to serve your own agenda. This is just my two pennies’ worth on the subject. What’s yours? Lets have a respectful conversation about it.

Nathan Fielder’s upcoming Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ has officially been rated R. For “language and some graphic nudity.”

What song has the most recognizable first 10 seconds?

Can I see y’all when you were 21 👀

I've been doxxed. My real name is Archie Leach.

This is where I Tweet from

This is where I Tweet from

Share 4 pics that expose your taste in women

Either Bushmill’s Black Label, neat or Hendrick’s gin with maybe a little club soda and lime.

Photo challenge: Seat A bench, a chair, even a cozy tree trunk... if it invites you to slow down and stay a while, please share it below.

Photo challenge: Seat A bench, a chair, even a cozy tree trunk... if it invites you to slow down and stay a while, please share it below.

10 bands/performers I’ve seen live 1 The Dead Kennedys 2 Meatloaf 3 Frank Sinatra 4 Sheena Easton 5 Peter Paul and Mary 6 Billy Joel 7 Motley Crue 8 Jay Z 9 Stevie Nicks 10 Tom Petty