I am more than a little ashamed of the fact that I finally got my fast BMW and I got an automatic. I caved to the fact that I spend so much time in LA traffic. I really want to have a BMW with a six speed at some point.

I will say, it does has the most responsive automatic I've ever driven.

Yeah, I say that spending that much time in stop and go traffic earns you a pass on the automatic.

And the 335 I test drove was an automatic and it was nice, but i'd been hankering to get back to a manual for over fifteen years. I had a relative asking, "Now why do you need a six speed? Isn't it just huge ego stroking?"

And I looked him dead in the eye and said, "Yes."*

• brought to you the letters Bite and Me and the fact that I drove a minivan for seven years. I earned my fun car, dammit.

If you could have any car, money and mechanical needs being no object, what would you drive?

Easy. Tesla Roadster: [link] Fully electric, handles amazingly, and vrooooooooooom. My only beef if it's an automatic, but still. Electric vrooooom.

But really, since it's me, a 1930 Indian 101 Scout: [link]

Joe is also a candidate for the Mayflower Society.

And the Justice league!

I'm randomly clicking around YouTube. I think I started out at the Beach Boys, went through various sixties groups, and ended up at the Mamas and the Papas. Why is "Dream a Little Dream" making me cry?

I think I just needed to cry, and something eventually had to bring it out.

Speaking of classics, here's an interesting little story about the oldest known Pontiac: [link]

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My ultimate dream car would be a '27 Daimler 4-seater, mostly for literary reasons.

1927 Daimler "Double-Six" [link]

Easy. Tesla Roadster: [link] Fully electric, handles amazingly, and vrooooooooooom. My only beef if it's an automatic, but still. Electric vrooooom.

So I was watching some Mamas and the Papas videos, and thinking about clothes, and how Michelle had much better clothes than Cass, because it seems like the only plus-size option in the sixties was muumuus. And then I started thinking about it some more, and while Michelle was definitely the "pretty" one, just watching the way they move in some of these videos, Cass seems to be playing up her sexuality more. And I was wondering how that was received then, whether Cass was thought of as sexy or if her dancing like that was seen as funny or what. I tried to think of more recent examples of fat women dancing in videos or movies, and most of the ones that I could think of were played for laughs. (And pretty much all of the others were Queen Latifa -- I have no idea what that means.) And then I found this: [link] And I have no idea what the audience was supposed to make of it. There are funny bits, yes, because it's the Smothers Brothers, but what about the rest? And if that wasn't meant to be funny, wasn't it awfully racy for 1968 TV?