ChrisBcritter

and switch scam

time with family

Yep - the vent window post molded flush with the door IDs it (plus I don't recall any other Beetle kits with opening doors?).

Most memorable concert overall for me was The Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll at the Cerritos Center in 1983. Martha Reeves, Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector with surprise guest MC Mary Wilson of the Supremes; Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye were in the audience. Won tickets on KRLA and got front row seats - thus got to shake hands with Darlene as she worked the front of the stage . Most memorable club date: Catalina Bar and Grill in L.A. in 2006; two nights with the great blues singer Linda Hopkins as she recorded what would be her final album, The Living Legend Live!. Honorable mention: Early '90s, Dizzy Gillespie at the tiny Vine Street Bar & Grill in Hollywood; my best friend was a waiter there and got me in. Clint Eastwood and then-partner Frances Fisher were sitting 20 feet away from me. Least memorable: Delivering three large Domino's pizzas - on time - to Guns 'n' Roses at Perkins Palace (Pasadena) in late '87 - they tipped me 32 cents.

They got the darn things and the refund is coming through. They say. At least they aren't sending four more outdated tire swings.

the subway, darling

I spoke to Ed Sexton at the Milwaukee NNL show a couple years ago about that - the bean counters at Revell have nixed it.

Buggy by Barris

Update: Got return labels from seller, taped 'em to the tires, schlepped them over to the local UPS/FedEx shop and sent 'em on their merry way. Now the refund wait begins... Meanwhile my boss had me pick up a new set of Assurance All-Seasons at Walmart, and I made sure they had late-'21 date codes!

Looks like Norm Grabowski to me?

wee wee, monsieur

Checking the new trees against the original issue, looks like we've lost the original's two-piece open steel wheels - too bad; to me, they're the best ones AMT ever made.

Aha! I spy the old CA trailer plate from the license plate sheet I made back in 1983. Here's where I got that number: The Kenskill travel trailer from the 1962 movie Panic in Year Zero!.

First time behind the wheel in my early teens was in this '69 Olds Delta 88 with a 455. Dad let me drive it around the empty high school parking lot; first thing I learned was how to brake smoothly without throwing us forward: Took driver's ed at Glenbrook South High School; we had a couple Datsun B-210s to learn manual shift (on the Dan Ryan Expressway, no less ) I also recall the school using an ivory '76 Monte Carlo with no vinyl top and a brown '75 or '76 Chevelle sedan.

gets nose job

mating season documentary

Oh my cod

Ordered a set of tires through Amazon for my boss a couple days ago; new Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max. Extremely quick delivery - dropped off on the front porch this morning, and... No, they didn't get stolen. Yes, they're brand new with factory labels. But... check out the date codes: April, June and July 2017 - almost five years old. Amazon did OK a refund; hope the seller doesn't stick me for the shipping

work from home

and Tom Waits

One of my favorite family slides: Mom, our '53 Chevy, and a friendly deer - somewhere in Colorado, 1956:

My favorite Hesseman moment - playing straight man to Walter Matthau in The Sunshine Boys. "Frumpies! FRUMPIES!!"

Wanted to get my mom's metallic blue '50s Kenmore but she gave it to my brother's kids, and they donated it somewhere later. I've had a fair amount of experience sewing Aztec costumes along with the other members of my dance group; the fun part for me was being able to create something without having to wait for paint to dry . I'm looking to get another machine soon (probably a heavy duty non-computerized Singer) so I can at least keep my clothes mended and maybe make a few things.

Singin' inna rain

I had one of these in progress in 1/20 scale long, long ago - combining the IMC Dune Buggy with the Pyro VW kit, of all things. Might be fun to try again if I felt like hacking up rare kits...