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?

t just noticed that it's past midnight

Happy Birthday, Trudy!

Dream Car: Nash Metropolitan.

I was conceived in a 1960 Nash Rambler Wagon.

Happy Birthday, Trudy!

Birthday, Trudy! Let's talk cars and boys!

I had wanted a 3-series BMW for most of my life, and I finally bought a 335i earlier this year, so I'm driving one of the cars I really wanted. I have a thing for very fast sedans. There's something about a car that is an effective commuter that get to 60 MPH in less than 5 seconds and easily sprint up to 150 MPH. If I were getting it totally for fun I'd probably would have looked more closely at the convertible model of the 335i or the M3.

But that's a damn nice car and the transmission makes total sense for the conditions. In SOCal, I had an automatic and could have killed for it. It's not that I get to play with my car....

Happy Birthday, Trudy!!!

Happy Birthday, Kara!!!

I am so boring when it comes to cars. I just want a reliable car, but I would prefer it to be red. I'd rather spend fantasy money on other things.