@jakequery I’ll put St. Louis’s Little Italy area (“The Hill”) up against any other city’s equivalent in the US. Still a fan of Birmingham’s food scene.

I think @KKirkwoodRacing & @AndrettiIndy should take a silent bow … Chili’s is America’s hottest restaurant, via CNN:

Newgarden’s commercial shirtless cameo playing the background on the TV while Palou is chopping veggies in his commercial … that’s a nice Easter egg. You see it for .25 sec, but now I can’t unsee it.

@indy44 HA! That's the gamer look of "Bowser, care to explain why you threw the turtle shell at me 20 feet from the finish line?"

Dear YouTube … your “must include 30 sec of ads every 90-120 secs” to non-paid users is making your platform truly unusable. Either slow down ad frequency, figure out a new ad revenue platform, or just force all users to your paid service. Choose. #BlockingEveryAd #Frustrated

@Eric_INDYCAR @wbuxtonofficial A few years ago, our internal teams started doing a little “INDYCAR-aoke” during our road trips to/from Indy. Caught a little steam but fizzled. Perhaps it’s time to bring it back in 2025?

For the record … I am enjoying the absolute £€%?$¥*+ out of this Illinois/Indiana game. #OskeeWowWow #Illinois

@4TheLoveOfIndy Alas, my article from EOY 2014 will now become out-of-date. Fun while it lasted, I guess :)

@jakequery Perhaps a solid honorable mention …

@DaveFurst (overheard on PA) "The holidays are over. Make room for the Valentine's Day chocolates!"

Less than an hour until midnight on the East Coast. Time for all digital devices to be turned off for the upcoming Y2K25 conversion. You can turn things back on in 12 hours. Should be all good in the morning. (Emphasis on “should” … *evil grin*)

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation came out in Dec. 1989. That makes this the 35th consecutive year I have yet to see the entire movie in one setting. I’ve probably seen it all, & know the good quotes, of course. But still … haven’t seen it through.

@pk500 In the words of Adam Savage (Mythbusters): “I reject your reality, and substitute my own.”

@indy44 Scheckter-esque … if he gets 2 wheels off the wall on the high-side, we can say Kanaan-esque!

Prob. not happening, because the integration method into X … Elon pulled the plug on that. Otherwise, we’d still have @echofon … which I still haven’t deleted. Not sure Elon can spell “social media”, TBH. “X” & “$” is about all he can spell.

@mannbeast Hallelujah from the congregation!

TV is turned off. Phone about to be put down. Two fingers of bourbon for dinner (no appetite). Heading to bed at 8pm. The sun will still rise tomorrow. There’s work still to be done, and dreams still to be dreamt.

Did the thing 2 weeks ago … now looking at options for dual-citizenship, based on historic family roots. If you can, vote. If you’re thinking about it, vote.

Sooooo … Cole Trickle is finally gonna get his shot at Indianapolis like he said. Right? Perhaps do the Double? Day-glo Green & Gold #46 Chevy would bring back heavy Menards humpback vibes.