four leaf clover

well, that happened

2008-06-22T18:00:34Z

Three days later, we are still a little dazed after a solid week of memes. We have no idea - none at all - why memes were selected over the Question of the Day. The lone dissenter Mariser said it best. "Some QotD's are clever, others interestin...

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dewey defeats truman

2008-06-13T00:35:52Z

In a closely-fought battle, QotD narrowly edged out Meme for suprema- oh, wait.... Well, that happened. I don't know quite what I expected when I opened the polling, but it wasn't that. Hell, I'm surprised people even voted. Even the elusive ...

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indecision 2008

2008-06-12T02:04:53Z

We don't often ask for reader feedback around here - mainly because we don't usually care to call attention to the fact that we have, like, three readers - but we're kinda stuck on an issue we don't really care about either way and we're willing t...

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the hotrod 515th episode spectacular

2008-06-07T20:30:12Z

Today marks the second anniversary of our little corner of the Voxosphere, and it's been another busy year for hotrod.vox.com. Aside from finally growing up and adding capital letters to our arsenal of prose, we've welcomed some new faces and we'...

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even the losers

2008-06-01T20:18:28Z

America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride is today. It's happening right now. If I were there, I'd likely have recently left the lunch stop at King's Beach and would be mentally bracing myself for the long, slow climb up Spooner Mountain. I was suppos...

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my favorite things

2008-05-30T13:27:22Z

Jodi doesn't seem to know when to quit. Not content just to send another pie to the east coast in Dabysan's "52 Post in 52 Weeks Challenge," and despite that she has yet to win any of our little wagers, she seems to think I'll be unable to manage...

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D

2008-05-22T03:28:18Z

According to the counter to the left (and why would it lie?) this humble post is our 500th here at hotrod.vox.com. Five hundred posts, and nearly all of them are like spun gold. Wow. We pretty much rule. We're pleased to have lasted this long,...

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postponing: the vault

2008-05-07T00:27:51Z

Today is not a significant day. But then, neither was yesterday - and yet thick-necked fraternity brothers and vacuous sorority sisters everywhere commemorated the non-occasion with three dollar mojitos and unplanned pregnancies. So perhaps the ...

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weekend update

2008-04-19T18:26:26Z

This past week most certainly did not go as we had anticipated. After several weeks of near-constant scrambling down at the lab, we thought on Monday we might actually be able to relax a little. As it happened, this was our busiest week in a whi...

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bonnie 'prince' johnny

2008-03-15T00:13:10Z

I was going to get to this song eventually, and today is as good a day as any. I've been a fan of Will Oldham since the very first notes of the very first song of his that I heard. That was back in '95, mere days before leaving college behind fo...

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