Gentle Persuasion

Spent this past weekend at a “Pick Your Part” junkyard in NorthEast L.A., with greasemonkey-for-a-day Mack Reed, in search of pristine parts from Ford Econoline vans for the xylovan project.

Here, we see Mack wrenching on a particularly obstreperous and tricky bolt, one that steadfastly refused to loosen.

The evil substance crusted to his knees was later taken into captivity and flown to Area 51, where it was quarantined for further study by the SETI teams.