April 9, 2008. 12.29pm. Inglewood, CA. It’s a cool spring day, and DF sits magisterially at a table in in the shadow of the Fabulous Forum (now home to Faithful Central Bible Church, in case you were wondering what happens to LA sports venues when the sports teams desert them). DF is surrounded by seventeen empty box lunches. Some of these other pansies are looking a little green around the gills, but not DF. The reason for the occasion is an assignment to which DF consented some few days ago. The proffer came through to spend a couple hours checking out a bitchen & souped-up 2010 Ford Mustang and go on a ride-along with a real, live Formula Drift racer. Other Losanjealous writers begged off, fearful of death and/or dismemberment. But DF laughs at death, and he snickers at dismemberment. Serious injury rates a dismissive chuckle, while maiming gets a hearty, full-throated guffaw. You feel me.

Wait, DF, it’s great that you’re doing something insanely unwise and dangerous but what the hell is “Formula Drift”? Sigh. Okay, noobs, here you go:

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DEATH TOLL RECAP
Lordy! What a week-or-so of sheer death we’ve had. Scenestar turned out the lights. Wayne Coyne poured a 40 for year 48 on the planet. Aziz killed his offer to guest blog (maybe next time). Burger King had Facebookers sacrificing each other for Whoppers – right up to the point that Facebook sacrificed the bejesus out of Burger King. Indie103 perished. KXLU said meh. Commenters discussed the response. We attended a touching, albeit unnecessarily profane, service for Circuit City (monster cables were cremated). Finally, the dude who licensed this cruddy-looking mossy tombstone came calling for cash. The infinity trick to the right simply means we’ll be invoiced 37x more than originally estimated. End of day, death is just no fun. And expensive. Next week: Rebirth? Have y’selves a great weekend out there.