Neanderpundit

Last three days I’ve had this stuck in my head.

I have always loved Mathis’ voice, he has an amazing talent. And this song specifically is excellent, though the X files tried like hell to ruin it for me. (That was a great episode, but couldn’t they have used a different song?)

Anyway, some thirty years ago, on a shoot with my former fatherinlaw, who was a BIG fan of Mathis, he had pulled some strings to get a chance at shooting the Man Himself while he was visiting/performing in Chicago. I stayed in the lobby while the fatheirnlaw went in to photograph/speak withhis favorite musician,. and in a short time he came back out again, said “We’re leaving” and we did.

Later I learned that Mr Mathis had suggested to my FIL that they spend the afternoon, and indeed the evening together, and made it very clear what he was interested in. The FIL, having never seen a pillowbiter up close before, was completely flummoxed, and never spoke of the incident to me, I had to hear it secondhand from his wife.

Anyway, when I hear Johnny sing “Wonderful Wonderful” I try not to think of him singing it to someone named Steve, and I’m fine, it lets me enjoy it a good deal more.

I worked with people astounded that a bunch of aggressive big juiced bruisers managed to win a game over a group of somewhat
less aggressive juiced bruisers.

It makes me wish i was adopted and I’m not actually human ( which maybe isn’t such a stretch). I cannot comprehend the Phenomenon of sports.

I have 410,000 miles on the old exploder (More, but I put 410 on it myself) I put 205 on the van that preceeded it. I drove it’s predecessor, a Probe, for around 275,000 miles. Prior to that it was a wound up little escrote I thrashed about for 60,000 miles. And now I’ve put about 72 on this exploder. I’ve driven over a million miles since i began doing this work.
Tam was talking yesterday about missing the cruise,but I never used mine. In fact it was broken on the old exploder for over a hundred thousand miles and I didn’t even know it till I took it in for a recall notice. I always prefer to let my foot figure out where it wants to be.

Power windows, now that I like. And automatic door locks, but you can put that on damned near any car for a few bucks. When the lock on the passenger side of the old sploder worked its way loose from it’s rivets, I was nuts till I got it fixed.

I do miss driving a stick, I like it and I want to get another one soon. There are old beater 944’s around everywhere, and I can fit in one ok, and they’re cheap as chips, so I may do something like that, or find a wrx some kid ran out of money on, or something.