Hot Import Nights are an automotive rave with music; dancing; exhibits promoting everything from beverages to motor oil; contests for trophies; and product giveaways.
That year, we watched not only the Testicle Festival's main event the competitive eating of bull balls (a.k.a. "Rocky Mountain oysters") —but also a women's hot oil wrestling contest, a women's wet-T-shirt event, and a men's "big ball" competition (basically a "wet underwear show" with dudes).
Lawyers for Yukos said yesterday that the oil company may contest the move after justice ministry officials, collecting a $3.4bn tax debt, announced they would again seize shares despite a court decision on Friday that an earlier seizure was illegal.
"Let's see, Prop 63, repealing the ban that overturns an earlier measure that allows oil companies to contest the local governments ability to pass legislation regarding the imposition and/or the elimination of additional taxes per the earlier-passed Proposition 62".
The winner of the Name That Oil-Plug Technique contest: Jeff Aeschliman, from Salem, Oregon, who calls his maneuver "The Dutch Boy": "You send a BP exec down there and tell him to stick his finger in the hole".
Friends advised me I was setting myself up for embarrassment: a war with Iran, a contest over oil, or a nuclear terrorist attack could erupt any day.
That by deed and utterance ("we will add 12 million barrels to the SPR in January") the administration is not prepared, even symbolically to contest current oil price levels and possibly higher levels to come.
Ghost Milk is his attempt to hammer out a mythology, or at least a language, that might contest snake-oil politics and "heritage" history.
Perhaps we would not be jeopardized by our dependence on Middle Eastern oil today if similar contests, stimulating innovations on alternative energy sources, had been instituted in the mid-70s when we were hit by the first of many oil shocks.
Neoconservative imperial ambitions have been invoked in explanation, as well as the American thirst for oil, or even an Oedipal contest between George W Bush and his father.
