Join me, once again, as we take a walk down memory lane

Mrs. Paco discovered another cache of old photos, and, while going through them, I discovered this gem.

The picture quality is poor - it was taken with one of those instant cameras that were popular at the time - but as a piece of personal history it is unique: this is the only photo I have that shows both of my Plymouth Superbirds at the same time. The scene is the driveway of our house in Cary, NC, and I am smoking what is probably an Hoyo de Monterrey cigar (my main brand at the time).

The blue one you've probably seen before; the color of the other one was what Plymouth called Sublime Green (in the photo, unfortunately, it looks yellow).

I was 19, a month away from my 20th birthday. I met Mrs. Paco about a year later, and maybe a year after that, I sold the green 'bird, and bought her an engagement ring. If I had held on to the car for a couple of decades, I could have bought her a diamond necklace set in platinum. Meh. As a burly gangster character (played by Mike Mazurki) once said in a movie, "If only I hadda knew".

Don't know much about art, but I know what I like (as the saying goes)

This one's interesting.

The company he keeps

"Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S."

A representative of the enemy within:

“Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason—for one reason only—to establish Allah’s deen,” Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a former vice president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), had told Muslims, “democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”

This shall not stand. Deus vult! 

"I got your 'deen' right here, pal!"

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 I don't remember ever seeing one of these.

Amen to that

 

"Wait. Why is everybody looking at me?"

Gavin's folly

Chris Bray actually went to look at the construction done to date on California's high-speed rail project. Suffice it to say, it didn't take long to photograph the "progress": "Frozen In Time: Gavin's Museum of Grift".

When you're too sleazy for Hugh Heffner...

...that's really saying something: "Playboy’s Hugh Hefner Reported Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI After Playmate Claimed She Was Raped and Trafficked by Him".