NASCAR Pets ~ A Kitten for Kyle Busch

A kitty for Kyle

NASCAR ~ The Biff wins again! Kyle Busch Astro-Predictions plays out

Congratulations to The Biff once again!! It was a great race!

Kyle Busch had a very disappointing day. As I said before, Kyle has a long term aspect that went into affect in early September, that really showed his demise in the Chase standings. I predicted on July 14, 2008, that his winning streak would come to a screaming halt when it came to The Cup. He has been a phenom this season. I have no doubt that someday that trophy and title will be his, but I doubt if it will be for awhile. The major aspect affecting him lasts for several years. It’s all part of his maturation process.

Sad for Baby Busch, but it’s all part of The Chase format, and it’s a whole new ballgame from here. He who is the most consistent, wins. It’s all about patience, perseverance and skill… With a little luck thrown in.

NASCAR Astro-Predictions ~ Dover

The Dover race ‘scopes for the driver’s are all almost exactly the same, a lot of Mars and Uranus Trine in all the driver’s scope. The day could go very well for all of them, and I don’t see anyone driver standing out as having any better aspects than the others. The only exception is Kyle Busch, who, as I have said before is going to start down falling on Cup race days. His aspects look very frustrating. Matt Kenseth also has a little bit of frustration, tho nothing to terrible.

What does that mean? Well, it means aggressiveness and unpredictability. The Moon is Void of Course once more, which adds an extra bonus of surprise.

Anything goes today!

Tally Ho!

Kyle Busch wins again!

Congrats. Yippity ~ skippity. I am trying to not get too excited.

Jeff Gordon took the pole for tomorrow.

Yippity ~ skippity. Again, I restrain myself.

It’s so hard.

NASCAR ~ Breaking NEWS!! ~ NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace’s Death

This is not funny. He would have loved it …RIP DFW.

David Foster Wallace

LOUDON, NH—Shock, grief, and the overwhelming sense of loss that has swept the stock car racing community following the death by apparent suicide of writer David Foster Wallacehas moved NASCAR to cancel the remainder of its 2008 season in respect for the acclaimed but troubled author of Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.

In deference to the memory of Wallace, whose writing on alienation, sadness, and corporate sponsorship made him the author of the century in stock car racing circles and whom NASCAR chairman Brian France called “perhaps the greatest American writer to emerge in recent memory, and definitely our most human,” officials would not comment on how points, and therefore this year’s championship, would be determined.

At least for the moment, drivers found it hard to think about the Sprint Cup.

“All race long on Sunday, I was dealing with the unreality presented me by his absence,” said #16 3M Ford Fusion driver Greg Biffle, who won Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the first race in the Chase For The Cup, and would therefore have had the lead in the championship. “I first read Infinite Jest in 1998 when my gas-can man gave me a copy when I was a rookie in the Craftsman Truck Series, and I was immediately struck dumb by the combination of effortlessness and earnestness of his prose. Here was a writer who loved great, sprawling, brilliantly punctuated sentences that spread in a kind of textual kudzu across the page, yet in every phrase you got a sense of his yearning to relate and convey the importance of every least little thing. It’s no exaggeration to say that when I won Rookie of the Year that season it was David Foster Wallace who helped me keep that achievement, and therefore my life, in perspective.”

“I’m flooded with feelings of—for lack of a better concept—incongruity,” said Jimmie Johnson, the driver of the #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet who is known throughout racing for his habit of handing out copies of Wallace’s novels to his fans. “David Foster Wallace could comprehend and articulate the sadness in a luxury cruise, a state fair, a presidential campaign, anything. But empathy, humanity, and compassion so strong as to be almost incoherent ran through that same sadness like connective tissue through muscle, affirming the value of the everyday, championing the banal yet true, acknowledging the ironic as it refused to give in to irony.”

“And now he’s gone,” Johnson added. “He’s taken himself away. We can’t possibly race now.”

David Foster Wallace’swork came to stock car racing in the mid-1990s, just as the sport began experiencing almost geometric yearly growth. But the literary atmosphere of the sport was moribund, mired in the once-flamboyant but decidedly aging mid-1960s stylings of Tom Wolfe, whose bombastic essays—notably “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!”—served as the romantic, quasi-elegiac be-all and end-all for NASCAR fans and series participants alike. Racing was ready for new ideas, and when a new generation of young drivers like Jeff Gordonarrived on the scene, sporting new sponsorship deals on their fireproof coveralls and dog-eared copies of Broom Of The System under their arms, an intellectual seed crystal was dropped into the supersaturated solution of American motorsports.

“Suddenly DFW was everywhere,” said #88 Amp Energy Chevrolet driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose enthusiasm for Wallace is apparent in both his deep solemnity and the Infinite Jest-inspired Great Concavity tattoo on his left shoulder. “My Dad was against him, actually, in part because he was a contrarian and in part because he was a Pynchon fan from way back. But that was okay. It got people reading V and Gravity’s Rainbow, and hell, nothing wrong with that. But now, to think we’ll never see another novel from Wallace…I can’t get my mind around it.”

“David himself said that what he knew about racing you could write with a dry Sharpie marker on the lip of a Coke bottle,” said NASCAR president Mike Helton, who announced the season cancellation late Monday after prompting from drivers and team owners in a statement that also tentatively suggested naming the 2009 Sprint series the Racing Season Of The Depends Adult Undergarment in referential and reverential tribute to Wallace’s work, a proposal currently being considered by Depends manufacturer Kimberly-Clark. “But that doesn’t matter to us as readers, as human beings.”

“Racing and literature are both huge parts of American life, and I don’t think David Foster Wallace would want me to make too much of that, or to pretend that it’s any sort of equitable balance,” Helton added. “That would be grotesque. But the truth is that whatever cultural deity, entity, energy, or random social flux produced stock car racing also produced the works of David Foster Wallace. And just look them. Look at that.”

So sad…I have been grieving so much I can’t write.

And now…there is nothing to write about.

NASCAR 2008 ~ 6 Month Astro-Predictions ~ Matt Kenseth

Matt Kenseth 2003 Winston Cup Champion

I will be doing the 6 month outlooks for each of the Chase contenders over the next few days.
Let’s start with the #12 seed, Matt Kenseth.

Matt has, in effect until the end Nov. 2oo9, Pluto Square Pluto.

This is usually a period of regeneration. The influence is associated with forces for change. As changes come about, look carefully at each, and choose to divide and conquer into what you need and what you do not need. Learn from this aspect and influence. It is hear for you to grow from. You may see some power struggles in this area, with people who do not want you to change, and/or shake up the barrel.

Matt Jupiter is in conjunction with his Descendent until mid Sept.

This is all about mutual growth within relationships. Try to create relationships with people who will be supportive in your goals and dreams. New partnerships may come into being during this time,and it is a very good time to sign contracts of any sort.
Now thru mid Nov. will be an extremely positive time. You realize now how your past has contributed to your present, so suround your self with the things that inspire you from the past. Get out your Championship pictures, trophy, and any other sentimental things from your Championship year, and surround yourself with them, wherever you go.

Remember this Matt? Visualize!

The only negative side of this influence is in regard to your nutrition. Eat healthy, drink lots of water and avoid all foods that are not strictly for health. Your body will want to tend to be sluggish during this time, therefore creating a sluggish mind if allowed. Try to aviod all fatty foods at this time, because they especially will affect you more than normal.

A new course is the theme of Uranus conjunction Matt’s Sun, in effect through mid Feb. 2009.

This is an extremely significant and intensive influence.
This influence can clear away all limitations. It can bring a bit of unpredictability, wildness, and chaos, but that is not a bad thing for a NASCAR Driver. Use this to create fast reflexes and response, aggression, and strategy. You will not be patient with restrictions at this time, which can also be used for the good where The Chase is concerned.

Matt’s Saturn is conjunct his IC, which also means this is a very important time.

What you do now, sets the tone for what you will do in the years to come. From here on, you will use each of the steps you create now as a stair step and gradual climbing to the most important time in your life.
The only small negative in all of this is Saturn opposition Saturn thru Aug.2009

The influence could create a feeling of discouragement on occasion. Remember that all the other aspects in your life minimize how this influence affects you. I wouldn’t even worry about it. When you know this aspect is here, it is easy to deal with. Just turn that frown right upside and Chase that frown away!
You are on your way up again. The future depends upon the foundation that you lay now.

Matt Kenseth’s Astrological outlook for The Chase could not be much better!

Next up: Kevin Harvick

The Chase Begins! Boyer in…Jimmie Johnson wins at Richmond!

Congrats to Jimmie Johnson for winning the Chevy Rock and Roll 400. Congrats to Clint Boyer for getting the 12 spot.

I wanted to cry for Kasey. His ‘scope was way right on. Dang it. Tony Stewart ran a great race today. Pushed Jimmie right up and gave him a run for his money at the end. Jimmie, being the driver he is, adjusted and found another groove on the high side, and just made that car go faster. I am telling you right now….continue to look for more of those kind of runs for him. He has moved into his 10th house of fame and fortune today, and it’s in full effect through the end of Oct. 

NNWS still to come tonite. What a great day for LugNutZ!

Clance’ Heaven!

NASCAR Astro-Predictions ~ Richmond

Tricky little scopes this week.

Clint Boyer, born 30 May 1979
Clint has a lot of Venus in his ‘scope today, which normally affects ones love life and feelings of contentment in life. All of the aspects are positive through out the evening.
Clint’s Moon is sextile Pluto, which means profound encounters,setting extreme objectives and becoming so obsessed with the goal that a one track mind and compulsive behavior results. This influence is a psychological energy that in most shows an area that controls ones life. On the positive, this is not a bad aspect for a NASCAR driver to have during a very important race.

Kasey Kahne, born 10 April 1980
Moon Trine Med.Coeli will bring balanced needs and not as much tension as usual. There is less of the feeling that two sides of Kasey are struggling for mastery over the whole. His moon sextile his Moon will also bring about deep feelings. Moon square Saturn usually brings on a feeling of fleeting but deep depression. Normally it would be a good time to avoid being involved in any emotionally delicate situation. *Note : I am usually way off on Kasey’s scope, meaning I need his exact birth time to be more accurate. Hopefully this will be another of those days.

David Ragan, born 24 December 1985
Mars Sextile Mercury makes the day an excellent day for all kinds of mental work and good communication with others, especially if one has to plan a future course of action with decisiveness and firmness. The rest of David’s aspect’s are a little dismal.

One of Denny Hamlin’s aspects has a strange ring to it…
Sun Trine Chiron:
There are wounds that do not heal with time. Instead they start hurting again given certain “weather conditions”. If this occurs, subconsciously we will withdraw into ourselves in interpersonal situations, or be oversensitive and react in a hurt manner without apparent reason – or we ourselves become particularly hurtful, without actually wanting to. However, if the weather is fair, as it is now, you have the opportunity to bring these painful things to light – preferably during a personal conversation with someone who is close to you. Looking into painful experiences in this way can make you freer in your behavior, your close relationships and your relation with your body. It can also prevent you from hurting others.

Hmm.

I don’t see too many surprises today in the other driver’s outlooks. Jimmie Johnson’s scope is near perfect.

So…Tally Ho.
See ya later. I can’t wait to show you the long term aspect’s for the Driver’s who make The Chase. (Yes…I have peeked:)

Sometimes I can’t help myself.

Two rednecks were looking at a Sears catalog and admiring the models.
One says to the other, ‘Have you seen the beautiful girls in this catalog?’
The second one replies, ‘Yes, they are very beautiful. And look at the price!’
The first one says, with wide eyes, ‘Wow, they aren’t very expensive. At this price, I’m buying one.’
The second one smiles and pats him on the back. ‘Good idea! Order one and if she’s as beautiful as she is in the catalog, I will get one too.’
Three weeks later, the youngest redneck asks his friend, ‘Did you ever receive the girl you ordered from the Sears catalog?’
The second redneck replies, ‘No, but it shouldn’t be long now. I got her clothes yesterday!’
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Kyle Busch on the Pole at Richmond ~ Hannah affects NASCAR

NASCAR and Hannah ~ Close Call?

Hurricane Hannah Track

The latest forecast  from the National Weather Service indicates Richmond International Raceway’s top NASCAR event Saturday night could be spared from Tropical Storm Hanna.

The weather service this morning said there is a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Richmond area, increasing to 60 percent tomorrow night.

In advance of Hanna’s arrival, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today declared a state of emergency, directing state agencies to take all reasonable actions necessary to protect the health and safety of Virginians from the storm.

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management has staffed an emergency operations center, and the Virginia State Police, Virginia National Guard and Virginia Department of Transportation have additional personnel on standby to respond to areas in the storm’s path.

On Saturday, the forecast for the Richmond area is for a 70 percent chance of heavy rainfall during the day, with amounts between 2 and 3 inches predicted.

But on Saturday night, as Hanna moves past Virginia, the chance of precipitation drops to 20 percent, and if there is rain, it is expected to come in the form of showers and thunderstorms.

That could be good news for the Chevy Rock & Roll 400, which is scheduled to get the green flag at Richmond International Raceway at 7:30 p.m.