Life is too serious, Love is too mysterious. "Hahaha!" heard those words from Gwen Guthrie. Are they true? I dont know, but she looks good to me, my silky words are sweet, but my pockets sure look empty! How much oatmeal does one have to eat to lower your cholesterol several points? I just thought I d post something today, the weather is pretty nice and I read some post about heteropatriarchy and womanism. I thought it was a bunch of bullshit, but that s just me. I m sorry to make this accusation but there is nothing special about being a woman. Especially in a 1st World country. You got it better than almost any other woman on the planet in the history of the planet. Am I anti-woman now? Get the fuck outta here! It s like people make up boogeymen to assuage the fact that they have nothing else to talk about. I mean come on, Heteropatriarchy? What have you known to ever have been different?

And here is Bogota de Santa Fe, the capital of Colombia

This is a photo of a very beautiful city, Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

Um, yea, I think that holds true for ABBA also. Fernando, HA! what a weird song. You want to know what a good song is ummm, "Dance with Me" by Orleans, lets see, "It keeps you running" by the Doobie Bros., and also "In my Pocket" by the Pretenders. I know more but I m upset because I wanted to eat eggs for breakfast but magically they went bad and smelled and stuck a funk to my fingers. Aw shucks!!

OK, I have someting to say to you(se) guys, I dont think I like Olivia Newton-John. Thats cathartic for me, because when i was in the first grade(around 1979-1980) I was deeply into her. I mean she was banging all over the radio. She was in the movie 'Grease' with Travolta(who I also patterned myself after from the show 'Welcome Back Kotter' and 'Saturday Night Fever', although he let me down in the sequel to that movie 'Staying Alive'). Newton-John was alos in the movie 'Xanadu' and sung the soundtrack. So yea, I was feeling her strongly back then. I wondered what happened to her over the years, although I found out she had to take it easy because she got diag'ed with cancer of some sort. In the time she was away, she was replaced by Sheena Easton, who was hot for a while with that "my baby takes the morning train" song. And then she sang the 007 song "For your eyes only". But I guess its hard for Aussies to keep current to whats going on in the States. So she fell off also. But in retrospect as I listen to their music, I dont like it at all. It is what I consider to be awful dentist waiting room music. Just thought I share that with you.

And I dont want to offend(actually I dont care if I do), but I m not going to support any illegal immigration legislation in our country. And if you are a politician and you do, I m not going to vote for you, re-elect you or even mention good things about you in mixed company. I am against any rights of passage for illegal immigrants in the USA. I can go into detail, but its Miller Time, and I m going to 'Tap the Rockies'.

OK, I ll admit it, I m a bore. I dont care though, I ve seen people compose their lives full of narcissism and materialism(or is it materielism). And others live off jingo-ism. My sin, I am into antiquat-ism. I like old stuff. What more can I say?

What happened to all the idealogues? You know the people who wanted to make the world a better place? So anyway, I want to seel guns to the afflicted people in Darfur so they can fight the Janjaweed militia. I know I m just making a bad situation worse, but I cant let people just get slaughtered while the world waits to do nothing. I m thinking AK-47s, some grenade launchers and maybe some 60 year old Cuban revolutionaries to train the people how to defend themselves.
This is a 70 Fury(in the fuselage design style)-->.
Umm, Yea, we re never getting out of Iraq so if you were waiting for a tax refund check, you can hang it up. What did they say a trillion dollars for this excursion? I dont even know what a trillion dollars is, that like 12 zeros, right?

Once again the side by side, what we have here is a 1970 Chrysler New Yorker(top) and a 1977 Chrysler New Yorker(lower). You gotta love the hide-aways(the hidden headlamp doors). The latter NYer was essentially a 1974 Imperial Sedan(after poor sales due to 1973 Arab oil embargo and the financial constraints put on Chrysler having just redesigned the entire lineup) which was rebadged as a NYer for 1975 til the models close at 1978. This was a shame because they were some awesome cars as you can clearly see here. The top car was designed in the fuselage style(by the Boeing Corporation). You can see it in the rotundness of the body(resembles the barrel shape body of the 747). This styling was most prominent in the Chrysler model and most subdued in the Plymouth models. Actually the Plymouth models werent as mundane as they looked from afar. What happened was: considering the options you could get in the Plymouth Fury, the car was more a menace on the road as opposed to mundane. This is obviously noted in the number of police agencies in North America that chose the Plymouth Fury as their fleet sedan. I ll post a picture of Plymouth Fury from this time frame(1968-1978) if I can find one. A mild technical note here for these cars and those of you wanting to buy/restore one. Compared to the other manufacturers full size sedans these cars had a wheel bolt spacing that was used usually for the mid-size(intermediate) cars. For example, the Cadillac Deville, Pontiac Bonneville, Ford LTD, etc., use a 5" x 5 bolt spacing pattern, while the Chevrolet Malibu, Ford Torino, etc., used a 4.5"/4.75" x 5 bolt spacing pattern. All the Chryslers used a 4.5" x 5 pattern no matter what the car was, if it were a Cordoba or a Polara or even a full size Dodge van(5 lug). I had thought that it was because the weight of the cars(at least 4400 lbs) would create a lot of stress on wheels and hub bearings. I think differently know. I m going to assume now that they did it because it was a mere production issue of 'keeping up with the Jones'. If Cadillac/Oldsmobile/Chevrolet used 5" bolt spacing then Ford had to use it also. Chrysler may have avoided that issue in order to control costs from the hub manufacturer(probably Bendix, but dont hold me to that).
Anyway, I like Imperials more than NYers because due to the limited sales volume they had more appeal(and actually very few options). But also because although they were made on the same assembly line they had totally different taillights, hood ornaments, steering wheel, even cornering lamps. The only problem with these cars is that when they are built with all these conveniences for the 'sophisticated driver' they ll tend to fail over 20+ years. So you know, you re dealing with a 1969 or whatever electrical system so the windows may not work. Or they antiquated Air Conditioning system may not have worked since 1981. I dont know, but you know, the old timer mechanics love these cars because it is all figure-out-able(just made that word up).

I thought I d post some side by side lovelies, in order to get you guys reminiscent before the weekend begins. The brown one is a 1970 Buick Electra 225 and the grey one is a 1978 Electra 225(the technical term is "Deuce & a quarter, signifying the length of the car, 225 inches.) Yea, these are beauties. Ok, they arent 'hyrbids' nor do they get 39 mpg, but one does look good when one arrives in an Electra. Cannot say the same for the Prius. Never could say that for the Honda Civic. Well, anyway, here we are in May 2006, some of us doing good, some arent. Hmm, thought just occured, I m a left wing foriegn policy advocate. Yep, Rumsfeld got his tail handed to him yesterday. Can some one say ambush? Ray McGovern gave it to him old Iranian hooker style, right in the caboose. Steven Colbert didnt do that bad either. Too bad we cant see the footage on the nightly news. The nightly news, starting to become an oxymoron, yes? Dont know what to read, see, nor believe anymore.

Well I wanted to leave you with another pretty. I didnt post anything during the entire month of April. Shame on me. Urban blight of the mind.

I forgot to give you guys an new photo to remember me by. Ha! Like I have fans. Its nice to be noticed though isnt it. Iffin's I didnt have such a boring life.

This blogging this is so excellent. Its like a repository for all the things you couldnt say in the life you live with the people you live your life with(unless you are in a truly cosmopolitan metropolitan area.....I m not, Ha!)

I m going to try to post in Spanish and Portuguese in the future, maybe even French. But don t hold me to that yet, I m still looking for a reason to live. Ha! I m gone

Just goofing off trying to look busy:
I know there has got to be a way to make an Oscar winning movie featuring Peter Dinklage. This guy is cool I love his voice(I m not gay, just saying this guy has delivery like the Cheschire Cat). You might have seen him in Elf, with Will Farrell, he was the short guy. But you gotta see this guy in The Station Agent, incredible role I ll say. The short guy thing doesn’t mean that much to me. Ok, I know that the problem with the motion picture industry is the same problem with the music industry. There is a lack of good stories to tell. You tell a good story and the world will beat a path to your door. I thinks…me thinks. It’s a small world after all, no offense Pete. I mean, Pete is from Brooklyn(everybody say YEA!!!!!!)
I wonder if people could actually improve their situation. I also wonder about what people mean when they say they ‘work hard’. I don’t know, it sounds like too much self aggrandizement sometimes. How do we know you work hard versus actually being a conniving son of a bitch? It’s a question and I m asking it. You know, I sold cars in the past and I remember guys being deceptive and conniving and it was all under the guise of hard work. Who knew? I think it all in the name of the game to be successful, I guess.
My man Mike is still working out the kinks to his homeless situation. I m hoping that it will rebound for him sooner than later. I think he may have to look outside of Greensboro though. I know how people cant become obstinate(not the word) but sometimes unwilling to see that things may not be going as well as they d hoped in their arena. My aunt told me that it doesn’t hurt to see what else is out there. I agree. My own personal bias is that we Americans spend too much of our life in one place. That’s nuts!! Why nuts? Because when you live in a country as big as this one, you should really make an effort to see it, even live in it. I mean if this place was Lichtenstein, or Vatican City you d have an issue, but this is America. But anyway, I didn’t mean to foretell the obvious, only to offer the guy some hope and open up the eagle vision to a more galactic sense. I mean, why waste time trying to do when what we really want to do is: TO DO. Just a rambling. What the hell happened to the AMC Rambler? This is not a question about old car companies and such, it is an inquisition into what happens when people no longer dream or have things to aspire to, to dream about? Just asking…
Well, I hear this song and I ll sign off with this:
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Caminhos Cruzado by Antonio Carlos Jobim(I even got the fret positions for those of you who d like to try this out on the guitarra. Until later folks