The best car chases, the greatest car chases, the best movie chases… Give it the title you want. I researched this matter exhaustively and below is a list of the greatest car chase scenes in movies that I could come up with. The best car chase sequence of all time is the climax of 1980′s … Continue reading »
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The Best Movie Shootout Scenes
The Best Movie Shootout Scenes, The Best Gun Scenes, The Best Movie Gun Scenes… Give it the title you want. I tried to collect the very best. Hands down, I think the best movie shootout scene of all time is the sequence in Heat between the bank robbers and the police. Simply incredible and like … Continue reading »
Royal Academy of Arts (London)
My Italian interpreter and I went to the Royal Academy of Arts today. They had a special exhibition on Japanese woodblock prints, but there are enough Japanese woodblock originals in the Ames family for me not to consider the fee to enter the cramped rooms (stuffed with tourists) to be worth it. We explored the … Continue reading »
Pursuit of the Land Speed Record
Jimmy Ames has enthusiastically agreed to provide financial support to my and Brandon’s ambitious project to set a new land speed record on the flats of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. We’re aiming to break the 1,000 mph barrier (The current record is 766 mph). Here is a prototype of the vehicle we are constructing in … Continue reading »
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The Mexico Series… Savvy Young Heirs Give Mexico Drug Cartels New Face
Standing before flashing cameras in a white Abercrombie & Fitch jogging suit with trendy glasses and a swish haircut, Vicente Carrillo Leyva doesn’t fit the classic image of a gun-toting drug kingpin. The 32-year-old was detained quietly enough: police nabbed him while he was exercising in a park in a plush Mexico City suburb. Carrillo … Continue reading »
The Whirling Dervishes Of Khartoum, Sudan
Something really not to miss around Khartoum is the gathering of the Whirling Dervishes at the Hamed al Nil mosque every Friday until the sun goes down. This Sufi order gathers together in the cemetery around the mosque to sing, chant and whirl in the dust wearing colorful patchwork clothes. Everyone stands in a huge … Continue reading »
