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Via Many-to-Many, a wonderful interview with Clay Shirky on the Gothamist, in which I’ve found the perfect description of my fashion sensibility: “My sartorial sensibilities veer between dress-down Friday and last man out of a mine collapse….”

I’d read about drifting before, but I’ve finally seen a bit of it on TV. Drifting is one of those wonderfully wacky ideas from Japan, involving controlled, graceful, tire-shredding, screeching, smoking skidding around a track in a car. Apparently it’s a bit like freestyle motocross. The bikers decided that the tricks were so much fun that they might as well ditch the race and just do tricks. The drifters apparently decided that skidding was so much fun that they might as well ditch the race and just skid. Tire companies love it. Having seen some on TV, I can see how much fun it must be to watch. I’m not sure I want to drive to Indiana to watch an event, but I imagine in the future there will be more events.

Then again, Indiana isn’t that far away.