<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><feed version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" xml:lang="en-US"><title>Backseat Blonde</title><tagline></tagline><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.backseatblonde.com"/><author><name>awagda</name></author><modified>2005-05-24T22:47:17-0700</modified><entry><title>That (Sort-Of) All-American Racing Series</title><content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://www.backseatblonde.com/May0510.html">&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;T-O-Y-O-T-A could spell 
                
the end of NASCAR.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mixed reports over the past week or so have indicated 
                
the&lt;BR&gt;Japanese motor giant may be on the verge of invading&lt;BR&gt;the all-American 
                
stock car racing series next season with&lt;BR&gt;a couple of Busch series entries, 
                
with plans to jump to&lt;BR&gt;Cup in 2007...more&lt;/SPAN&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.backseatblonde.com/May0510.html"/><author><name>awagda</name></author><modified>2005-05-24T22:47:17-0700</modified><id>tristana.writer.{11ED39B8-F187-47E6-BA2D-688F92EB0CC6}.38487.9389268518</id></entry><entry><title>Racing in the South is Just Better</title><content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://www.backseatblonde.com/May0524.html">&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;Saturday night’s race had 
some of the most boring racing &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;action (an oxymoron?) to date this 
season. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Yet something intangible saved the night. Perhaps it was 
&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;Mark Martin, a champion of hearts if 
not in truth, taking the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;checkered flag. It certainly wasn’t 
the scantily clad grand &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN 
style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px&quot;&gt;marshal, the 
too-impressed-with-their-own-celebrity commentators, or the much-&lt;BR soft&gt;hyped 
‘levigated’ track (sorry Humpy, I give you credit for 
trying)...more&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.backseatblonde.com/May0524.html"/><author><name>awagda</name></author><modified>2005-05-24T22:47:21-0700</modified><id>tristana.writer.{85F6C616-067E-4CB4-B7C5-9584551542DF}.38496.9495561574</id></entry></feed>