Hey, I saw this movie

It starred Boris Karloff, didn't it? "Harvard Agrees to Pay Massive Settlement to Families Over Ghoulish 2024 Case of Stolen Body Parts Sold on Black Market".

One more

I found another picture of the two Superbirds in their natural habitat.

This really puts me back in May of 1975: a pleasantly warm day, dogwoods in bloom, the smell of pine needles, and not a worry in the world.

Interestingly, years later - after the Superbirds and the house had been sold, and I had gotten married and moved to Miami - Mrs. Paco and I returned to near-by Raleigh to visit her parents, who were then still living there. We drove through the old neighborhood in Cary just to see what it looked like (I had not seen it in something like a decade) and what did I see parked in the driveway? An orange Superbird. To put it mildly, I was astonished.

Delighted to see this Krispy Kreme profit center crash and burn

"Alex Vindman got clobbered in Florida. Seeing him get annihilated in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, given the arrogance and entitlement of this little twerp, makes it even more delicious."

He lost to a socialist nutjob, but, still, it gives me great satisfaction to see this fat, pasty-faced Trump hater's political career run off the rails and plunge into the gorge of, what I hope will be, permanent obscurity.

Related Another big karma sandwich is served: "FBI Agents Confront Former Dem Congressman Eric Swalwell at Airport and Seize His Electronics, Including His Cell Phone".

The more I hear about this guy, the more I like him

 As one of the faces of the Democratic Party, that is: "Abdul El-Sayed's Mother Worked for Designated Terror Group That Supported Hamas, Osama Bin Laden".

If you're ever in Driggs, Idaho...

Be sure to give the Wydaho Roasters Coffee House a miss: "Far-Left Idaho Café Owner Kicks Pro-Life Conservatives Out of His Establishment, Compares Them to The KKK".

These modern-day worshippers of Moloch tend to be violently fanatical - possibly demonically influenced, if not possessed. Steer clear of them.

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

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".