Who the heck is, Benjamin?  Benjamin, refers to the 18 year-old, whiny, Subaru in the image above. And this is my introduction to my favorite of all the vehicles I've owned thus far. I'll also be documenting its journey of hopeful restoration here, inspired by my friend,  @Peeeels (instagram), who is meticulous when it comes to his cars and documenting their modification journeys.  How Benj-aru really looks I inherited Benjamin from a good friend of mine for exactly $100. Yes, $100 worth of turbocharged, AWD, automatic (shhhh we don't really talk about that), WRX goodness. My boring driving experience, which typically is that of a 3rd Gen 4Runner (Second favorite car I've owned), has never been the same.  Hearing turbo noises always brings a smile to my face and I find it hard not to push the pedal down a little more than I'm used to when I'm behind the wheel.  Before the Covid quarantines and working from home became so prevalent, Benjamin had me to and from wo...

 Hey there, my name is Mark and I am all over the place. I decided I would start blogging for a variety of reasons, but for now I kind of want to treat blogging as an experiment and use it as an outlet. We'll see what happens.  When I say I'm all over the place I mean, like everyone, I am into a lot of hobbies and interests. I was thinking the other day about how to get away with putting all my interests into one outlet and arrived at something I'll call a macro-niche ...an oxymoron maybe, but let me explain.  If you spend anytime on social media with an aim to make a living, then you'll know, or have heard about, the term niching-down . This is where you figure out what you want your specific focus to be and what your target audience is and then you cater your content to that specific niche. Well what if you have a lot of hobbies, in my case cars, art, pop-culture, video games, firearms, social media and tech, AND you know there are a lot of people who are into...