You know how typical IndyCar mailbags are all “informative” and “coherent” and “fact-based?” Booooooooo!, right? Right.
Well fret no more. Because starting next week, we’re storming the formidable versus.com to fix that troublesome wrong. The plan? You all submit your IndyCar-ish questions/suggestions/ideas to me, and I address them in a weekly feature over there — the title of which escapes right me right now. IT’S FOOL PROOF!!!
It’s fool proof because it will work! (Maybe.) It’s fool proof because VERSUS wasn’t as much interested in hiring me as they were in hiring you, the renowned Pagodans … the sharp-witted & well-groomed Illuminati of the IndyCar scene. See, they didn’t give me my own collumn where I could mindlessly spew my nonsense. No, that would be unwise. Instead, they gave me a format where I am to efficiently respond to yours. Which — according to VERSUS — is far more clever, far more lucid, and far more entertaining than anything of mine. I don’t disagree.
And with that, the mailbox is hereby opened. Weave your magic, Pagoda Local #152. I get a nickel for every 500,000 pageviews you generate, so weave it well.
By Earnastine, April 15, 2010 @ 7:50 am
Busy doing my taxes…do you think all of the drivers will be on time with IRS this year or will they file extensions and is the IRS going to be looking very closely at the “charitable giving” section of the forms? What could they donate today (before midnight) to make a difference in their bottomn line…there is still time.
By cappy, April 15, 2010 @ 8:13 am
Hot damn we’re unionized now? Half that nickel is ours then. No? STRIKE!!!!!!!!
By redd, April 15, 2010 @ 8:15 am
I don’t read “informative” and “coherent” Indycar mailbags. I read Robin Miller’s mailbag…
By H.B. Donnelly, April 15, 2010 @ 8:27 am
Only if VERSUS is as staunchly devoted to St. Elmo’s cocktail sauce and Dr. Michio Kaku as you are…
By DZ, April 15, 2010 @ 8:47 am
Dear VERSUS:
Mailbag questions:
- Why must we capitalize your name?
- Can we not use the abbreviation VS? It’s far easier for we lazy blog surfers to type.
- Can we nominate Lindycar for Chair of the Board at VS?
- UFC cage match: Jack Arute VS. Robin Miller. Winner gets to carry Lindycar on their shoulders for garage area raceday transportation to and from the skybox.
- Can we get a 5-part, 10-hour, in-depth biography of the prodigious Simona DeSilvestro including a scientific examination of her freakish zen mastery of road course memorization.
- I know, I know, I’m trying to make it all about us fans… Sorry corporate megalith, sorry.
By pressdog, April 15, 2010 @ 9:17 am
HA. Fresh territory to PILLAGE. We’re like mongols running across the sub continent, slaughtering livestock and terrifying unwitting populations. You can’t stop us, you can only hope to contain us and make someone else beat you.
By Oilpressure, April 15, 2010 @ 9:25 am
There goes the Versus neighborhood.
I vowed to never use profanity on my own site, so anytime I feel the uncontrollable urge to let the expletives fly – I always go over to the Pagoda. I know Hobbson and his derelict ways won’t mind. What will Versus think of his wastrels slumming their pristine site?
By Roy Hobbson, April 15, 2010 @ 9:37 am
They told me the title of the mailbag, and I’ve truly forgotten it. But I’ll be goddamned if the tagline won’t be “Like mongols running across the sub continent!”
Oh, it WILL be.
By Marc Bever, April 15, 2010 @ 10:04 am
How does a word become profanity?
By Bob, April 15, 2010 @ 10:06 am
Dear VS,
Don’t split with Directv prior to the season finale. Oh, and give Arute a script.
By DZ, April 15, 2010 @ 10:26 am
How sad is it that whenever someone says ‘Mongols’ I immediately think of a South Park episode.
Damn Mongorians!! (18 and over please)
By Tom G., April 15, 2010 @ 10:39 am
Can’t wait to start overturning vehicles, and setting them on fire over at Versus.com
By Hamilton Fish, April 15, 2010 @ 11:20 am
Never foul a jump shooter. -Hubie Brown-
By Jason McVeigh, April 15, 2010 @ 12:50 pm
Roy, how did you get this gig? Do you have dirt on Randy Bernard that forced him to use his contacts at Versus to get you a new job? If so, bravo.
By P Daddy, April 15, 2010 @ 12:59 pm
Congrats Roy! First things first, Do we original Padodan’s receive Vs. swag to strut around our basement in? My “Dynomite” shirt is on it’s last legs.
By DZ, April 15, 2010 @ 2:02 pm
P Daddy, I’ve got a What’s Happenin’/ReRun shirt that’s near-mint. I’ll trade it for your Jaclyn Smith and your Cheryl Ladd (that would finish my Angels collection).
By boilerrx1986, April 16, 2010 @ 5:58 am
Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!
By Dave, April 16, 2010 @ 10:12 am
I like it when girls are topless at indycar races so I’m not overly excited about viewing your malebag.
By Neon18, April 16, 2010 @ 8:15 pm
Puff Daddy-Combs enters the scene and takes over-
“Agua or Vodka….please drive responsibly”, He says to Jimmy….