.....within the last couple weeks, I've been ostracized by commercial promoters and midwestern fudpuckers for standing up for street racers on a statrat dragstrip board--while being praised by the site owner for being "drag racing's own gonzo journalist". He's been running my
racersforcoffee.blogspot.com
contributions off and on as leads for a couple years. I ran with the crew which begat the first online drag racing magazine; we kick started coverage of old school drag racing in the mid-'90's---our publisher wrote for Hot Rod for years before he got sick of the republicratic bent and gathered a clan...Nitronic Research. Cole still ambles around the LA Citybeat digs when not doing sound for Jeopardy. Go to

web.archive.org/web/200104.../ikkky.html

...for a taste. I still don't take graft from the sport--and being respected for "telling truth to power" is all the compensation I need.

I continue around here with racersforcoffee.wordpress.com .....and the Racers For Coffee tribe.