trinacriabob

buffet!

granola (granolas will make it a point to tell you they're spiritual, not religious)

The answer is: you have enough hair to lend ...

I'll be stuck there...no problem. My '84 Cutlass Brougham coupe was more comfortable on long interstate trips than anything I've had since then. My 2 newer cars have been more reliable, though.

When I was in grad school at U of I, everyone got weirded out when the sky got real dark in the afternoon. I would be looking for some kind of authorized underground shelter! Great pics.

I was looking around at pictures of mid-80s Cutlass Supreme coupes today. They were beautiful...from every angle. For at least 10 years, 1976-1986 +/-, no other car captured the heart of America the way this car did. That's why they were everywhere. Do you think there will ever be another mid-size personal luxury coupe? Can't the market handle just one...either at a Cutlass Supreme price point or a Riv/Toro/Eldo price point? Or is this a matter of timing where the market has to take a break from this genre and then come back to it? What do you think?

mystical

tantrum (a friend of mine is currently having to take his 4-year old to the pediatrician and a counselor because of her constant tantrums - not a likable child)

It seems that Eddie Bauer (now under bankruptcy protection) aligns more with the West and LL Bean aligns more with the East. After all, they're based in Seattle and Freeport, Maine, respectively. I only buy clothes from these places...and very infrequently, at that. I actually went to Freeport, Maine when I visited Boston in the late 90s. I bought some decent things for good prices. It's a nice little town, but there were TOO MANY Subarus...and, ahem...their drivers.

I saw the word Oregon and was immediately turned off. I can't believe it's adjacent to California and such a freak show. And, no, Oregonians, it's the Californians that are WAAAYYY more normal.

I like American cars. I said Corvette.

I don't know how you do it. I skipped taking a major vacation last summer and was getting real cranky. This last one (July) was the best 17 days of "therapy" ... unbelievable. Ocn, glad you had fun BUT, for your sleeping issues, see about getting something for it. I never had sleeping problems until a year ago, and Ambien is now generic (with a next to nothing co-pay) and works like a charm. Tent camping? Hmmm. I once went camping to the San Bernardino Mountains with my brother and a few of his friends shortly after he got his license. We left a locked cooler on the picnic table adjacent to the tent. A bear came by to check out the cooler and knocked it off the table. We were woken up by the loud bang and we were eerily quiet. My brother's friend who snuck a look at it said it wasn't that big...he described it as a "teenage bear."

metal

Does it make a good impression?

I went to a couple of dealerships last night to check out new cars for the heck of it. There were NO 2010 LaCrosses at the B(O)(P) dealership...and it was a fairly large store. There were NO 2010 Tauruses at the Ford dealership...and it was a very large store. There were NO base Camaros (within the visible part of the lot) at the Chevy dealership...and it was a very large store. What's up with this? Has anyone seen any 2010 LaCrosses or Tauruses on the lots? When are they due in?

orthodontia (I though the Brits had bad teeth?)

I was just thinking about this after seeing an ad for a local steakhouse. Opening up a steak, or a piece of meat, and "seeing red" makes my stomach turn. I always order it well done. All of it has to be some shade of tan/brown. Not only that, a knife has to go through it fairly easy and I don't want to wrestle with it. How do you order your steak or grilled meat?

I've either bought new cars (LaCrosse, Regal) or received cars that my parents bought new (Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass Supreme Brougham). They have all been excellent cars. Except for ONE. Along with having the Cutlass, I bought a 79 Camaro with a 5.0 litre V8 and slightly used at 34,000 miles. In my mind, it was not broken in correctly. I bought it from an Armenian chick in Van Nuys CA (San Fernando Valley). It was the metallic blue with the color-keyed rally wheels and a blue interior. It was a beautiful car. HOWEVER, it had a problem with the valve seals, emitting a belch of blue in the morning, and there was a drone in the differential that no one could diagnose. Adios, Camaro. I have not bought a used car since then.

No, you can't really use them in everyday life...they're too specific to most movies... Not only that, most anything I remember is from Eddie Murphy so I have to add the accent and I can't do that at work Most of the friends come up with enough good material: ..."the whitest of white trash" is one of my favorites ... that I was "the welcome wagon" for foreigners in undergrad ... or a black chick in summer school between fresh/soph year in college whose change was swallowed by a vending machine and got belligerant with it: "Ama' let dis machine take ma money, or ama act a fool." I swear...verbatim. ... he "doesn't know how much he doesn't know"

Bible thumper

I am one of the few dissenters on this car. I am trying real hard to like the hood/greenhouse/deck lid proportions of this car. I'm not there yet. And I don't like the pointiness of the headlights as they turn the corner into the fenders, something already in the styling vocubulary of the large BMWs. Kudos to Buick for making a likable vehicle, but there wouldn't be a G8 or LaCrosse debate for me if I was in the market at this time (the way I tossed around GP or LaCrosse)...it would be the G8, which is the best-looking sport sedan GM has released in the last decade.

Hey, I flew into and out of Boston en route to Europe for my vacation in July. I've been to Boston before, but I've never seen it (and the area) from the air. The geographical layout was out of this world...beautiful. I believe you. I heard it's real expensive to live there.

Just today, I was doing a little surfing on the job and was checking out 75 Grandville Brougham convertibles. Unbelievable. But I would like to see a 76 Grand Le Mans. But I would need a crushed velour leisure suit. Since I live at Borders and B&N, I'll be on the lookout for it.

libertine

French Onion