Maybe It's The Power Trying To Come Back On
Turn on the air conditioning and settle into a little Jurassic Park. It's lazy Sundays like these that make me miss the classic roommate-slacker action of 2001. Not that we did a great deal of slacking in our apartment, but we certainly knew our Jurassic Park memorables. I'm torn between my desire to go pick up a book and my utter undesire to move from my place and do anything except maybe get a soda. I really should finish that New Yorker. Maybe later.
In other news, countdown to new car smell: 1 week. Parallel parking in a matchbox car, I shall go and park anywhere I please. Maybe a MCR visit isn't so undoable afterall. Meet me halfway?
Hey, what's in this week's NY'er? We didn't get ours.
Posted by: thelizabeth | July 17, 2005 at 02:39 PM
So far, a review of War of the Worlds.
Posted by: ARRON | July 17, 2005 at 06:44 PM
OH. Okay I got that one. We think our mailman is a meth head. Our mail is always wet, ripped, open, or goes missing.
Good story, huh? There's plennnty more well that came from, let me tell ya.
Posted by: thelizabeth | July 18, 2005 at 09:22 AM
August 6th. Tell me at Genna's?
Posted by: ARRON | July 18, 2005 at 11:10 AM
You'd better rice the hell out of that car. I expect nothing less than aero-wingy crap, ground effects, dished rims, slammed springs, and a hood scoop.
Yes, an f-in hood scoop. You should also fill all usable space with subs and amps. Then you should parallel park all over the place.
So, you got a job, then?
Posted by: chaboud | July 18, 2005 at 12:15 PM
So far I'm still in Madison. Chicago ETD is January...when I return from a London vacation.
I'm looking into making a hood scoop with my available tools; hedge clippers, old rusty saw, and a glue gun that overheats. Can you believe that hood scoop wasn't an option? In-car illuminations? Yes. Hood scoop? Are you sure you don't want in-car illuminations?
Scion, why must you toy with my heart.
Posted by: ARRON | July 18, 2005 at 12:22 PM
It goes without saying you must also put an Xterra-styled rollbar/foot step-up set on there, so you can clear the – from the looks of it – five-to-seven-inch ground clearance without mussing your trousers. So necessary.
Here's the question: What would they give you if they pimped that ride on MTV? What would your special hook-up be? Expanded magazine rack in the rear? Bike chain interior stylings?
Posted by: Joseph | July 18, 2005 at 01:18 PM
It'd probably be one of those carpeted cat towers and maybe a mobile photoshop/t-shirt printing setup. The cat tower would be for sure.
Posted by: ARRON | July 18, 2005 at 01:57 PM
You forgot in-dash drunk-dialing OnStar capability.
Posted by: Joseph | July 18, 2005 at 02:09 PM
You forgot oil-slick, smokescreen, and those little spinning forks that shred the other guy's tires.
Posted by: Karl | July 19, 2005 at 02:17 PM
Oh snap. Can I drive the car you pull into for upgrades?
Spy Hunter and Karate Champ kept me busy for most of the mid-1980s.
Posted by: Joseph | July 19, 2005 at 03:00 PM
Factory options are for little girls (smokescreen included). You have to go with the SEMA aftermarket shit that turns your car into a non-functional jack-stand queen for the better part of a year. Supercharger? Oh yeah...
That will rock.
Posted by: chaboud | July 20, 2005 at 10:44 AM
It's a definite Too Fast, Too Furious situation. My car is made of things made of spoilers.
Posted by: Joseph | July 20, 2005 at 11:09 AM
The salesman did seem to be pushing me pretty hard to go with some Sprewells.
Posted by: ARRON | July 20, 2005 at 11:17 AM
Of course, you could go the complete opposite direction with your mods. I'm seeing mudflaps, curtains, a gun rack, multiple stickers of Calvin peeing on things, a horn that blows "Dixie" ...
Or you could get whistle tips. "The whistles go WOOOO!!!"
Posted by: Joseph | July 20, 2005 at 11:42 AM
I'm thinking I'm going to go minimalist and just put a "My other ride is your wife" bumper sticker square on the back bumper.
Posted by: ARRON | July 20, 2005 at 11:50 AM