Thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm getting Thai food for lunch and Lebanese for dinner, so the day is all multicultural. I just hope 27 is a good year -- I like the number, anyhow (It's a cube! And it has seven in it! I take an almost Nilly-esque delight in these things.)

Also thanks for the hurricane links. I have a whole new set of things to be outraged by now.

Back in the late '70s, my brother had a green Pinto for his high school transport--he used to cram five people in that car on a regular basis! He was in an accident that crumpled the front end of his car, and his buddy (whose dad owned a body shop) and he disassembled the front half of the car and reattached another Pinto's front half to the back of his old car, and painted it blue. Finally, in his last year of college, he was hit by a Mercedes while making a cookie ingredient run for Mom on Christmas Eve, so he replaced it with a new Jeep (a very nice one, too). Sad to see the old Pinto go, though.

ETA Birthday wishes for LJ!!

Hey, did we know they were making an Aeon Flux movie? With Charlize Theron? And by we I mean.... anybody, I guess.

I would seriously love to have a mid-70s Civic.

DON'T GET A '75!

Actually, I don't know if you could find a running one. Blew head gaskets like crazy. I still see others, from a few years later, around. Well, not around here, but in places without road salt.

Hey, did we know they were making an Aeon Flux movie? With Charlize Theron? And by we I mean.... anybody, I guess.

We did. It looks very pretty, but I do not remain hopeful that it will live up to the animation.

A friend of mine had a Chevette. It was killed by a canadian goose. The goose survived.

My first car was a Chevette. I loved that thing.

It got totalled when I had a head-on (at low speed, but around a blind curve) with a Plymouth (?) Satellite. Those things are BEASTS. The Satellite sustained literally no damage, and my Chevette crumpled like tissue paper.

My first car was a Chevette.

Same here. A 1978 Chevette, IIRC. My sister drove it from Alabama to Denver with no oil in it and tore up the engine. My parents gave it to me to drive until it died. I drove it about 6 months before a dramatic and smokey ending. My dad sold it for $50 for scrap metal.

ChiKat, since you're here, when you spoke to the people in Berwyn re: Katrina donations, did they say where they're going? Also, just verifying that they are taking donations tonight until 9:00, right? (Yes, I'm too lazy to search for when you posted this info yesterday!)

did they say where they're going?

They didn't. But, I also didn't ask.

Also, just verifying that they are taking donations tonight until 9:00, right?

Yep. I'm going there after work tonight. I started putting some clothes, towels and toiletries together last night.

Happy birthday, Lyra Jane!

I have just returned from a long weekend in Maine at my cousin's wedding. Awesome things that happened: I went sea kayaking; I got a cute boy's phone number. Not-so-awesome: my car broke down. Awesome: I got to stay an extra day in Maine while my car was being fixed. On balance? A pretty good weekend.