But again, I think we showed it in a way that was really enlightening.

"I think in the spirit of the bikers, Dave would want me to continue to have fun and to educate, to inform, to enlighten, to be slightly edgy," he says.

And I’ll just pray to the gods of the arts to enlighten me.

And he’s especially enlightening on the topic that dominated two key races in Austin and Mexico last month.

But the most enlightening part of the book was its recounting of California’s uphill struggle to get the rest of America to care about smog.