CLUTCH DUST VAPORIZES INTO THE ETHER: THE COLE COONCE READER


dots and words by Cole Coonce:


"ROMMEL OVER SHERMAN/WHISPERS IN THE WIND"

"500 AND MORE: A SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICANA, THE INDY 500 & HUMAN NATURE"

"WHO'S AFRAID OF ARLEY LANGLO?"

"POSTMODERN POSTURERS"

THE DAY OF THE HOUSE OF PIES

WHAT IF A TREE FELL IN THE FIBERGLASS FOREST AND NOBODY WAS THERE TO HEAR IT?

SMIRNOFF VODKA AND THE SPIRITS OF THE SIXTIES

FEAR AND ENTROPY IN LOS ANGELES:
Scenes from a gas struggle: Will soul-deadening gridlock and exorbitant fuel prices kill the remnants of SoCal car culture?

Teutonic Dolphins Swim as the DMV Burns

A Modest Proposal to Spike Drag Racing's Bad Hair Day

Fire and Rain and The Ridge Route Blues

Brakes Optional: A speedy two-wheeled journey into an L.A. summer night with the 'Wolfpack'

The Curse of Rancho Los Feliz

Social Climbing at Jumbo's Clown Room: A tale of a few strippers

Careering with Cowboy Nation

No Sleep To Idaho, The Perseid Fireballs And The Songs Of Dead Jim Morrisons

Civil Rites: Get yer War Between the States on at Fort Tejon

Paths to the Perseids: Sometimes you gotta get outta town to see the most spectacular stars

The Tao of the Barbecue Cycle: As humans, we crave meaning. Not to mention tasty charred meat

Smokin' Don Schumacher's, Internet Worm Food and Who Killed Mark Twain?

Fall Down: Mark E. Smith's platoon system meets its Waterloo at the Knitting Factory

THE PSYCHEDELIC PELOTONS OF SUMMER: Get cranked up for some South Bay cycling or Echo Park pedal-pushing

Lust in the Dust: Depeche Mode gives it to 'em straight in the Great American Desert

BUCK OWENS, Top Fuel and the death of the Bakersfield sound

Before the Flood: Weird prophecies of the 'mother of all storms' and how New Orleans was gutted way before any home-wrecker named Katrina

Don Garlits and Black Smoke and Orange Flame

ECHO AND ECHOLAL(I)A

Understanding Media with the Ultimate Writing Macine and the Bad News Bears of Drag Strip Journalism

The World is Your Velodrome: One L.A. rocker says to all the disaffected in the underworld: Get on your bikes and ride!

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE COYOTES OF TRASH TRUCK ROAD

Getting Out: Scenes from the overture to a modern reconstruction

DEATH ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND THE WHINE OF BLOWERS OVER THE PACOIMA ARROYO

Adventures in Meat-Space

All Roads Lead to Trona: Or, put Smogtown in your rear-view mirror - the best escape paths out of L.A.

Drag Princess: Mendy Fry, the Nitro-Burning CPA

SHELBY FOOTE: The forces of white-trash alt-country chic fight for the soul of the new Southern Gothic

Frying the Baloneys Off of Danica Patrick at the Smog Cutter

are we not monkeys? Melt-Banana takes up the de-evolution charge

tour de smog and beyond

club aston in van nuys: from gump to goldfinger to guv'nor, with a side of the sex pistols

give 'em enough rope -- Will the return of New Order be Billy Barty's revenge?

Drifting: Straight Outta Irwindale

To Mars and Back in the Mother of all Range Rovers

the future has no finish line

Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Manson and the sinkholes of Trona

on a buddhist bender at 5000 ft. ... or ... who knew siddhartha huffs nitro and climbs on a bike?

Failing to Grasp the Magnitude of Death Valley Scotty's Grotto

The Dairy Queen Vote

Stumping across the universe with Merle Haggard for the undecided UFO honky-tonk vote

Pedal to the Metal; Drag racer Whit Bazemore may be the world's fastest cyclist

THE (NOT SO) INVISIBLE HAND OF DOOM : Reality Entertainment and the machinations of the real metal machine music

HIGHWAY STAR: The ghost of Ritchie Blackmore's guitar laughs over the road home from Coachella

MIXING IT UP: What happens when Kraftwerk meet beer-soaked Lakers fans in a Venice dive

MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE

POSTMODERN POSTURERS: It's not the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fault, but live anarchy just can't take the world by surprise anymore

Country Teasers: Wise Blood in Wing Tips

the best of la 2003: the indy 400 of fontana, light cycle over central park, the fall @ the echo, kraftwerk tour de france soundtracks

Think of the Range Rover as the high octane metallic, mobile condominium

VIVA LA NITRO!

War of theWheels

TV Party: Celebrating unsung acts, the Shortlist concert is too long and all wrong

A Personality Crisis in a Steel Bikini

A Suitable Platform: Houellebecq: Sex, travel, and unmitigated violence in the human jungle

Stuck in the Muddle: Not even cornball jokes and quantum theory can deflect the infinite ennui of Bardo Pond

"The Sheriff" shuffles the deck, advances to no. 2 spot on NR AA/FD list

"wild bill" womps 'em under the lights

DAGO JOE AND VEGAS 2000

THE UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING; MACH 1 AS THE BIG BANG

TARGET SPEED TWENTY NINE PALMS -- THE GUERRILLA RENAISSANCE IS NOW: Jocko Johnson's high-desert campaign to meld the arts and sciences in an age that shuns creativity.

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPLODING INEVITABLE : THE EPIC SAGA OF THE SURFERS

500 and more: a secret history of americana, the indy 500 & human nature

CARL G. FISHER--LIKE A HURRICANE, BOY-EE!

drag racing is more punk rock than any gen x shithead with an out of tune guitar

drag strip blast off girls

BURY MY HEART AT EDWARDS AFB or... the sands will come again.

have nitro, will travel

lights! camera! nitro!

OVER, UNDER, SIDEWAYS, DOWN!: THE STORY OF "WILD WILLIE" BORSCH

who's afraid of arley langlo?

THE DRAG STRIP DIARIES: 1994--THE YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG?
pixels by Cole Coonce:


Melt-Banana in Pomona

tecopa: the futile search for the ruins of the desert hound mine

deep thinkers, dead pig and the cannons of kansas city

a girl and her hydrometer, mixing fuel

how you rike d-r-i-f-t-i-n-g now, mamason?

music to start a cult by

the ruins of rhyolite at night

howard hughes ruined las vegas

failing to grasp the magnitude of death valley scotty's grotto

funny cars on fire!

the road to 5 with mendy fry

grooving with the ghosts of howlin' wolf, eudora welty and nathan bedford forrest

yoshinoya beef bowl presents x

the quintuplets of cambridge pt.1

the quintuplets of cambridge pt.2

the quintuplets of cambridge pt.3

twenty four hour baker-barker-ballarat burn

leave the capitol

yeah yeah yeahs

march meet motormania 2004

sprockethead ghetto geek-out

2004 winternationals

fast frenz

the road to the pumphouse

wallpaper

i always hated that bastard flannery o'connor

the apocryphal crossroads

extreme wine tasting 12-18-03

on yer bike in baja

live! from the trona pinnacles

pomona: shirley's last pass

nyc, pt. 1

nyc, pt. 2

nyc, pt. 3

indy cars @ fontana

the sunken city

london

northampton

italy

the fall

pomona

wilson

cowboy nation

echo park

spent fossil fuels, entropy, profiligacy and extreme thermodynamics



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