Cuz I'm twelve. Yes. Seriously.
I already sent this off to Dana, author of my first SH story I read, and an absolute favorite of mine (and it's AR/AU!) Gentleman, Start Your Engines, but I wanted to share this with you, too. Tony is the Home Depot car driver in NASCAR, and Roy's favorite.
I just read an article on NASCAR's Tony Stewart in the recent "Rolling Stone", and there was this lovely slashy bit:
"This is the only time I get butterflies," Stewart says. He's dressed in his fire suit and is pacing restlessly in the narrow passageway in the Home Depot hauler at the Texas Motor Speedway. Guys from the pit crew pass him, and every so often he checks other drivers' times as they appear on the flatscreen. Jason Shapiro, the car chief, wanders in.
"Hey, Smoke," the chief says. Stewart reaches over and slaps him in the balls with his hand. It's a friendly little game they play.
"Payback's a bitch," Shapiro says, and exits the hauler.
Totally made me think of the guys in Gentlemen. Men. Heh. "Hey, Smoke," the chief says. Stewart reaches over and slaps him in the balls with his hand. It's a friendly little game they play.
"Payback's a bitch," Shapiro says, and exits the hauler.
In completely different news, my coworker Lisa lives in a 'burb of NOLA, and she is preparing to evacuate again, three years after Katrina flooded her home. Please send good thoughts toward NOLA and the surrounding areas this weekend.