Going to the Chicago race, are you? Splendid. A fabulous event, that. But why stop there? Why return to an unoriginal hotel or domicile when there is revelry to be had? Answer: you shouldn’t.

Greetings from some terrible airport hotel in Eugene, Oregon … where I’m currently stuck. Indefinitely. How this came to be is not important. Equally unimportant is the delay of this week’s Willy T. Ribbs Report. It will certainly not be up today, although not for a lack of trying. For you see, where I was on Saturday did not have [...]

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 [...]

►GOOD NEWS!! The quality of The Silent Pagoda is about to improve by roughly 48,000%. (YAY!!) But only briefly. (Booooooo!) I’m out of the country until next Wednesday, and in my stead, the universally beloved Speedgeek takes control of the site. You may notice some subtle stylistic differences between the two of us. For instance, whereas my style involves waxing moronic about fine [...]

Hey, whadayouknow? Freedom DOES ring in these here parts, and all’s right with the world. Fences have been mended, bridges un-burned, and blah blah blah it’s not important. Just know that there were no losers here, nor were there winners. Except for America’s most cherished principles, I suppose. They won. And so too did the various IndyCar employees [...]

While most every IndyCar blog goes dark today, one will remain very much lit. Come join us over at The Furious Wedge for the 2010 “Blogathon” — 24 hours of gentlemanly discussion & random postings. We’ll be bandying about a wide variety of topics, including The Rolex Such-and-Such race, the hidden perils of municipal bonds, and all things arson. There’s also [...]

Colts. Jets. AFC Championship Game. It’ll be mayhem on a grand scale, and the Pagoda is closed today. My apologies. Oh, and the city burns at 7:00 EST. Years of Indy 500 debauchery have prepared me for today, and they’ve prepared me well. Today will be an apocalyptic free-for-all in Downtown Indy where there are no laws [...]