Stef Schrader

I wish I could high-five the @trangirlismo.bsky.social girlies every time they mention treatment-resistant depression. Same! As a longtime member of THAT club, I feel like I should pass on the secret handshake (which is really just laying down and being too apathetic to bother with the handshake).

This is just PR. Zero pushback. Zero statements from locals who think this is all stupid. Just...PR. You do not, under any circumstances as an employee of a news outlet, have to do unpaid public relations work. sports.yahoo.com/articles/ins...

Good grief, I left motorsport reporting so I could play with my own dumb track cars again. I should not be spending my garbage insomnia time angrily fact-checking someone else's article. ... IF ONLY THERE WAS A RACE TRACK IN THE TOWN WHERE MY RACE CAR LIVES THAT ACTUALLY WANTED MY MONEY

This is just PR. Zero pushback. Zero statements from locals who think this is all stupid. Just...PR. You do not, under any circumstances as an employee of a news outlet, have to do unpaid public relations work. sports.yahoo.com/articles/ins...

"We don't want the local motorsport community to go without a facility for too long, but we also need to get the project right." Then maybe don't preemptively shut out the local community? Or shut them out at all, given that other membership tracks still host public events? This isn't hard.

This is just PR. Zero pushback. Zero statements from locals who think this is all stupid. Just...PR. You do not, under any circumstances as an employee of a news outlet, have to do unpaid public relations work. sports.yahoo.com/articles/ins...

"Growing motorsport, particularly in the local area, is very important to us," Mullins continues. Really? Because if that were the case, the remaining events wouldn't have been told (with less than a month before some) to quiet their cars down because it might be too much noise for the theme park.

This is just PR. Zero pushback. Zero statements from locals who think this is all stupid. Just...PR. You do not, under any circumstances as an employee of a news outlet, have to do unpaid public relations work. sports.yahoo.com/articles/ins...

Welp, I'm extra-glad I didn't attend in person now. Yikes. She doesn't even have ANY connection to Texas that I know of, nor is she that notable of a player. Is this another case of "the cruelty is the point?" It's not like there aren't a zillion other, more relevant personalities to wave a flag.

This butt-awful building is what happens when you drive away everyone with good design sense. The Initech headquarters from Office Space that was meant to epitomize an anonymous corporate hellscape had more character than this thing atop Turn 1, for crap's sake.

Relevantish sidenote: Lumbergh's 911 was built into a PCA race car after filming the movie, and that is one of many organizations shut off from booking races or trackdays at COTA after 2026. I'm absolutely losing my mind at the many ways COTA's stabbed some of its most loyal supporters in the back.

Welp, I'm extra-glad I didn't attend in person now. Yikes. She doesn't even have ANY connection to Texas that I know of, nor is she that notable of a player. Is this another case of "the cruelty is the point?" It's not like there aren't a zillion other, more relevant personalities to wave a flag.

Do better, COTA. [sadly evergreen statement]

So, THAT explains why birria went from "sort of normal taco with goat meat" to "taco with a cup of dipping goop" at taco trucks. The modern version started by using goats! www.texasmonthly.com/food/birria-...

(I fully admit that I still haven't tried the version with consommé, so yell at me if you want, but other menu items always sound tastier to me.)

We need some kind of "I Survived the Mud Pit of 2015" award, haha.

...did they run out of supercars to showcase from the '80s or '90s or something? I'm only partially kidding here, but I got bored with Radwood's fancy-man, higher-entry-fee pivot. Fewer "wow, I haven't seen one of those in YEARS" cars show up lately, and those were the ones I appreciated the most!

Biting into a moldy tortilla was not the way I wanted to start my day. :( Being too anxious, depressed, and exhausted to cook much lately sucks.

There's Going Through It, and then there's Going Through It So Badly That I Lost Interest In The Habaneros I Purchased. This sucks and I just want my stupid brain to work again.

Welp, it absoluuuuuutely tracks that the men who signed up to destroy Big Bend are horrifyingly gross in other ways, too. Yikes: www.instagram.com/reel/DexzjcS...