While my esteemed colleague Juli Weiner is away, I am acting as VF.com’s daily blogger. This means, I’m publishing a shit-stream of articles on topics ranging from The Kennedys, to Climate Change, to Why Chatroulette is Selling 50,000 Photos of Erect Penises. Since it’s “blogging” you can read the entire oeuvre in about three minutes by clicking here.
Ass-Grabby Cars
In our final report from the Detroit Auto Show, Stick Shift surveys the landscape of in-car haptic technologies– electronic systems by which your vehicle touches you back–for this important and informative investigative report Is Your Luxury Car Trying to Get With You?
On the Radio
I was on WDET–the Detroit Public Radio station–today, talking about cars and the automobile industry and The Detroit Auto Show. You can listen to my genius comments by clicking below and downloading the show. The interesting part (the part with me) starts at 29:34.
Inside GM’s Secret OnStar Bunker
Stick Shift ventures deep inside GM’s top secret OnStar Command Center to ask and answer the question: “Is There Anything OnStar Cannot Do?” and to bring you this (hilarious) VIDEO.
I Take Over Jalopnik
My super-friends over at Jalopnik invited me to be a special guest on the site for a live chat with their readers, in which folks asked me any kind of question and I had to answer. Sadly, I had to leave before I got to respond to all of their queries, but I got a few good licks in. Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Earlier Discussions” to view these.
Detroit Auto Show I
I’m back home in Detroit for the North American International Auto show, which means, it’s time for a fresh tour of the city. This time, I look at all the ways in which my compatriots in The D extend their withering piece of the economic pie through repurposing, in this special report: “You Like Junk? What if Someone Threw a Whole City Away?“
Shameless’ Gay Teen Cameron Monaghan
Showtime’s new series Shameless features a young character named Ian Gallagher, and he’s the anti-Kurt Hummel: a smoking, porn-loving, sexually active gay teen played by the preternaturally poised 17 year-old Cameron Monaghan. So, of course, I had to interview him for Vanity Fair.
Two New Carticles
I have a new pieces out in this month’s Car and Driver–the nation’s PREMIER automotive magazine–and this month’s Vanity Fair–the nation’s PREMIER…everything magazine. Buy them on the newsstand, or click below to download some really crappy scans (part of my evil plan to make you buy the mags. Bwahahahaha.)
My Visit with Chris Burden
I was recently lucky enough to be given the opportunity to visit the Topanga Canyon studio of artist/provocateur Chris Burden (whose work I happen to love) and tour around his amazing new automated, auto-centric, installation, “Metropolis II”, which led to this piece for Vanity Fair (w/VIDEO!)
My Big Gay Mom Sings!
My Big Gay Mom, Broadway diva extraordinaire Ms. Terri White (Barnum, Finian’s Rainbow, Chicago) will be performing her one-woman cabaret act at Feinstein’s at the Regency on Park Avenue in NYC on three Sunday nights in January. Trust me, this bitch can sing, and the house will sell out. So buy your tickets now.