Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Didn’t realize Matt was a fascist.
What?
Checks internet
As of this moment Noam Chomsky isn’t dead. Not doing great but not dead.
Whoa whoa whoa, coming for RATM?! Excuse me?
That band rips and I will die on this hill.
I’m just thankful you know how to spell whoa (look it up, JT)!
While on the RATM subject, I love when someone randomly spouts on social media, “I liked RATM before they got political.” Uh, what exactly did you think they were trying to tell you when singing “some of those who run forces, are the same who burn crosses.”
What did they think the machine the band rages against was? The frickin’ soft serve one from McD’s?
That would be an appropriate thing to rage against occasionally.
I could go on for ages about songs people like and either completely confuse the meaning or have never actually considered the lyrics. Some of my favorites people don’t understand are “Born in the USA” by Springsteen, “Pink Houses” by Mellencamp, and “Fortunate Son” by CCR.
True, but those are really a present-day problem.
The list of “people who fail to understand art” is a long and undignified one.
My fav is “Every Breath You Take” that sooooo many people my age used as a first dance at their wedding. Uh yeah, a song about an obsessed stalker is perfect for professing your love and devotion!
“Pumped Up Kicks” is another one. Uh, folks, it ain’t about the shoes!
I’ve seen American Woman played in some pretty inappropriate circumstances, but Pull Up To The Bumper at a bar mitzvah probably took some sort of cake.
Granted I do rage when that is “broken”, aka no one wants to clean it.
Not sure if true, but I heard the original lyric was “some of those who hold office, are the same that burn crosses.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ydz6m/tom_morello_reacts_to_paul_ryan_citing_rage_as/?rdt=52245
Well, I guess this is a month of weird takes from the Autopian staff.
no band has ever been less fun than RATM
How wrong can someone be?
Pick up a bass guitar, pick any RATM song and noodle away.
Instant fun. Plus sounding good at a musical instrument has never been so simple.
If you can ignore the Che Guevara aesthetic and focus on the instrumentation and music they are pretty damn rad.
Hey, I love RATM, to clarify that is not my take!
thank you for being a correct man of good taste
They are a great band just for the repeated lyric ‘Fuck no, I won’t do what you tell me’
I come here for car news and hot takes about said cars.
Now we have to deal with the shit you just dropped and read all these asinine comments it will bring.
So I’ll do it. I’ll be the first one.
The Gilmore Girls was a terrible show and not even Chomsky could redeem it. I can’t understand why it is so well regarded when it objectively sucks hot donkey balls.
(For anyone that can’t tell, yes this is supposed to be sarcasm and a joke. Except for the bit about The Gilmore Girls, which is actually hot, buttered garbage).
Rory Gilmore is one of the worst people ever on TV.
I was surprised yall didn’t mention the time he punched Gore Vidal, but that’s probably because (after a quick Google) that was Norman Mailer. Meh, who can keep up with all these old philosophers?
The only book by any of these irrelevant old dust bags I ever read was ‘Carrying the Fire’ by Mailer, because it’s ostensibly about Apollo 11. That was…..something.
Blech. On the plus side, there are many excellent books on the Apollo program, my personal favorite being “Lost Moon” by Jim Lovell
Yes that’s great. I’ve read a lot of the ‘nosecone’ autobiographies as well, including those of the three Apollo 11 astronauts. If you really want to get nerdy, I thoroughly recommend ‘Digital Apollo’.
To be quite honest, I do enjoy the sounds of Rage Against the Machine. Verily so when I feel the urge to contact objects with my clenched fists, or, conversely, when I want to feel the urge to contact objects with my clenched fists.
> no band has ever been less fun or more pointless than RATM
Y’all are coming out swinging this week – the Cybertruck is cool, Chomsky is overrated, and RATM was pointless are certainly some takes one could have.
Fuck you, The Autopian won’t do what you tell it!!
That bull is quite rad!
Last week was Jason’s turn to issue some takes, but now it seems he’s delegated that responsibility to the whole staff.
We still have Matt though thank heavens. I venture he digs Ratm and finds the first Matrix movie to be cool.
Yes, both things are true!
It seems pretty obvious that once Chomsky passes on, it will look like this:
25% – OH NO!!!!
25% – Well, darn, that’s too bad
25% – Meh
25% – Thank fucking God!!!
I got to pump a fist for Rush Limbaugh and Henry Kissinger, I guess the chuds can have Chomsky
All 3 are/were terrible.
*Alfred voice* “some people just want to watch the world burn…”
One time in response to one of those “who would you invite to a dinner party” surveys I came up with Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, and William F Buckley. Maybe William Burroughs just for fun.
I don’t think they would get past the Hors d’oeuvres so that would be a savings right there.
Yeah I’m old.
I’ve thought of drawing a cartoon of this dude, calling it Gnome Chompsky, and having this creepy gnome with Noam’s wrinkly visage but modified with pitbull-like jaws. He’d be standing still, with blood dribbling down his chin and neck, and the legs/shoes of some unfortunate soul hanging out of of his mouth.
https://left4dead.fandom.com/wiki/Gnome_Chompski
I was an expert witch gnomer back in the day (killing witches in one hit with Gnome Chompski).
Never played that game, but I’ve seen it played. Didn’t know that was the name of a weapon!
There was also an ancillary character named Gnome Chompsky in Guillermo del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia series
Nim Chimpsky was an actual subject in a long running and wildly mishandled study on linguistics.
Classic psycholinguist humor. Not as good as Gnome Chimpsky.
Don’t think he ever ate anyone though.
Sadly he has in fact passed.
Oh, he was a chimp. I guess that’s relevant.
That Brandon Bird painting, “Signifier and Signified”, is great.
Also, many Rage fans being insufferable in all kinds of ways doesn’t mean every one of those albums isn’t cover to cover bangers.
Oh hell yeah, I may need to order that print soon, to go with my Pax Cybertronia and King of the Cage
Yeah Hardigree is dead on here. Chomsky might have had some good ideas occasionally but they were far outweighed by a series of horrendous takes on all sorts of issues.
He and Ben Carson are poster children for the idea that just because you’re really good at something doesn’t mean you’re good at other things.
Matt’s comment in the slack literally says “he was wrong a lot.”
…yes I’m agreeing with him…
Yes, you were. Too early in the morning. I thought that was more of a “dead to me” than what you actually meant. Reading is hard sometimes.
I have no idea what any of this is about or who Noah Chekovsky is. Is this some kind of inside baseball?
I don’t know him either, but I don’t think he played baseball.
I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to know, but I don’t. I’ve heard his name, for sure. But that’s it.
100% where I’m at.
I think I’ve found my crew in this here little string …
One of you is Zizek under a pseudonym?
The idea of Zizek being under a pseudonym is, itself, kinda hilarious.
Who would be most likely to write “In Defence of Lost Causes”? Probably DT given his love for the most rust-prone of vehicles.