20 July 2022

The 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible - A True King Of The Road

 


My 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible.   21 feet long, 7 feet wide, 500 cubic inch engine.  So smooth-riding, it was like cruising on your living room couch.  I sold my four-year-old 1994 F-250, and bought this.   The car was 22 years old when I bought it, and had maybe 40,000 miles on it.   Everything worked, even the air conditioning.   The horn was really something.   There were maybe four horns wired together, to give a rich, full, "Move, you peasants" sound.

Old men love it, because they remember when this was a new model.  

Young kids love it, because they have never seen anything like it.

I was driving one day, when a little girl, maybe 10 years old, saw me.   

She stared, and then yelled out "Rock Me Baybee !"   

I almost wrecked, I was laughing so hard.

I loved that car, and the top and windows were always down, except when it was actively raining.

This car is the namesake of the blog.

19 July 2022

Helping Verbs

 Be  Am  Is  Are  Was  Were  Been  Being

Do  Does  Did

Have  Has  Had

Can  Could

May  Might

Shall Should

Will Would

Must


Charleston, South Carolina in 1968.

We learned these in Mr. Houck's fourth or fifth grade English class at Porter-Gaud School.

Mr. Houck taught us to remember them to the tune of "Taps".

I still remember them 55 years later, along with "It's always means it is".

Funny the stuff that stays with you.

I'm sorry to say that I didn't appreciate Mr. Houck at the time.

17 June 2022

Pictures Of Biden

 I wish people would quit using "rockstar" photos of Joe Biden, and instead use something like these :













10 May 2022

Biden's Big Adventure

Every dictator and autocrat has had a Ministry Of Truth, a department of propaganda.   

Biden just joined them.


07 May 2022

Personal Pronouns

 Putting your pronouns in your profile indicates that you pretty much fail at being a decent person.

Change my mind.




I promise to stay as far away as I can...


30 April 2022

Is It Just Me, Or Does Anyone Else See It ?

 Is it just me, or does anyone else think our new Mistress Of Truth resembles the fake female swimmer ?  (Mistress Of Truth is in the top photo)








And just look at that smirk and the crazy in the eyes.  "I have the power, and there's nothing you peasants can do about it."



Then there's this doctored publicity photo, which reveals what she really wants to do...







23 April 2022

Choo-Choo Papa And Mama Aggie

 This is a picture of my paternal grandparents, Choo-Choo Papa and Mama Aggie.  We called him that because he drove a train for a steel mill in Birmingham, Alabama.  They lived on Avenue G in Ensley, which used to be a tidy suburb of Birmingham.  Much like Birmingham itself, Ensley is now a shithole.

More about them in a later post.






The Court Decision That Invalidated The Federal Mask Mandate

 The Florida District court judge didn't overstep her bounds, but rather ruled that the Federal government didn't follow the law.   That's her job.


The Biden Laptop

 I think that from now on, the infamous laptop should be referred to as "The Biden Laptop".


17 April 2022

My Mother

 This picture of Mom was taken sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s.   My sister looked amazingly like this when she was about 12 or so.



Granddaddy Joe

 This picture of my grandfather was taken sometime in the 1970s.