Comments on: Look, a shiny object! http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=look-a-shiny-object one writer's daily download Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: caliban http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224940 caliban Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:48 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224940 How is it great to baIl out AIG but GM ia nthem. And Ford says we don't want you're money. You can be all Sarah all the time. You can't be that fucking stupid. I am a moron and this is my wige. She is frsting a cake with paper knife. So, she isn;t a despicable bitch? She bagged fidelity. It's OK to lie your ass off. How is it great to baIl out AIG but GM ia nthem. And Ford says we don’t want you’re money. You can be all Sarah all the time.

You can’t be that fucking stupid. I am a moron and this is my wige. She is frsting a cake with paper knife.

So, she isn;t a despicable bitch? She bagged fidelity. It’s OK to lie your ass off.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224894 brian stouder Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:38:58 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224894 <i>Fastest car you ever owned?</i> Chocolate brown 1971 Olds Cutlass Supreme 2-door, with a lovely 'his/hers' Hurst-Olds transmission (you could put it in D, or else shift it over into a parallel slot, and go from 1st to 2nd to 3rd to 4th, with no clutch). I once got that car up over 96 mph, and then she started to shimmy, in a pretty terrifying way! - so I eeeeeased up on her. Had that car for 6 weeks, until the afternoon that a guy on Calhoun Street turned left right in front of me, as I was taking a girl home from South Side (he was trying to get into the McDonalds that is no longer there, east of Southgate). I was going 35 mph, and smashed into his new Ford Granada. Turned out he was an insurance salesman! Everyone was OK - but Julie never went for another ride with me, and that was the end of the '71 Cutlass Fastest car you ever owned?

Chocolate brown 1971 Olds Cutlass Supreme 2-door, with a lovely ‘his/hers’ Hurst-Olds transmission (you could put it in D, or else shift it over into a parallel slot, and go from 1st to 2nd to 3rd to 4th, with no clutch).

I once got that car up over 96 mph, and then she started to shimmy, in a pretty terrifying way! – so I eeeeeased up on her.

Had that car for 6 weeks, until the afternoon that a guy on Calhoun Street turned left right in front of me, as I was taking a girl home from South Side (he was trying to get into the McDonalds that is no longer there, east of Southgate). I was going 35 mph, and smashed into his new Ford Granada. Turned out he was an insurance salesman!

Everyone was OK – but Julie never went for another ride with me, and that was the end of the ’71 Cutlass

]]> By: caliban http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224740 caliban Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:50:37 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224740 Fastest car you ever owned? Fastest car I ever drove and how fast I drove it. Z-28, and about 140 mph on Woodward Avenue. Ever owned? Maxda 626 pn the way out the Mass Pike to be in time for my daughter to make it to the world on time. You can't drive faster than that. There's a story, too, but all I was thinking was blowing it out and I couldn't get a ticket. I think Warren Zevon was thinking about Tim Buckley, Ricardo. I had to call somebody long-distance. I said join me in LA. Maybe James Garner was just Maverick. Smart, handsome and the long con. Seems to resonate. Once Sam Adams and the bomb-wielders were done, it took tall tales, buffalo guns and Fenders. It's an MC5 song. But Gibsons were always better guitars. Dexter. I've seen pigs on the highway. I think coyotes might make up for that. Some sort of natural herding device, and they might eat laggards. Or the coyotes will get them. Or the rednecks surely will. The problem on the roads is the armadillo. They don't move very fast, so they're possum on the half-shell. Aphrodisiac for coyotes. If predator species return, homo sapiens has to root for the wolves, not the bears. Bears don't give a shit, but supposedly you can make yourself look big and make a lot of noise. Fastest car you ever owned? Fastest car I ever drove and how fast I drove it. Z-28, and about 140 mph on Woodward Avenue. Ever owned? Maxda 626 pn the way out the Mass Pike to be in time for my daughter to make it to the world on time. You can’t drive faster than that. There’s a story, too, but all I was thinking was blowing it out and I couldn’t get a ticket.

I think Warren Zevon was thinking about Tim Buckley, Ricardo. I had to call somebody long-distance. I said join me in LA.

Maybe James Garner was just Maverick. Smart, handsome and the long con. Seems to resonate. Once Sam Adams and the bomb-wielders were done, it took tall tales, buffalo guns and Fenders. It’s an MC5 song.

But Gibsons were always better guitars.

Dexter. I’ve seen pigs on the highway. I think coyotes might make up for that. Some sort of natural herding device, and they might eat laggards. Or the coyotes will get them. Or the rednecks surely will. The problem on the roads is the armadillo. They don’t move very fast, so they’re possum on the half-shell. Aphrodisiac for coyotes.

If predator species return, homo sapiens has to root for the wolves, not the bears. Bears don’t give a shit, but supposedly you can make yourself look big and make a lot of noise.

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224732 Dexter Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:42:21 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224732 Fastest car I ever owned was a 1967 Dodge two door sedan. I bought it when it was 16 years old for a temporary go-to-work car in 1983. It had the 383 motor with a bore of 4.03 and stroke of 3.75. It was easy to tune up. Once I had it going 118 mph and I had lots of throttle space left, but I backed off. I was going to try to top my fastest speed ever, 124 mph in a 1959 Buick that belonged to my buddy's dad. So when I was driving, 118 is my personal high. Now I drive like my dad did when he was in his fifties...I haven't hit 65 mph since I was on a freeway two weeks ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A few days ago we were discussing coyotes . Yes, I saw coyotes during my 3-decades long commute through very rural roads. I also saw probably a thousand deer, rabbits by the score, raccoons, many pheasants, woodchucks, at times a loose cow or horse, opossums, chickens , geese, ducks, one time I almost clobbered a loose sheep, I ran over a large blue racer snake as it was slinking across a road--thump thump!--but I never saw a pig wandering about a roadway. Fastest car I ever owned was a 1967 Dodge two door sedan.
I bought it when it was 16 years old for a temporary go-to-work car in 1983. It had the 383 motor with a bore of 4.03 and stroke of 3.75. It was easy to tune up.
Once I had it going 118 mph and I had lots of throttle space left, but I backed off. I was going to try to top my fastest speed ever, 124 mph in a 1959 Buick that belonged to my buddy’s dad. So when I was driving, 118 is my personal high.
Now I drive like my dad did when he was in his fifties…I haven’t hit 65 mph since I was on a freeway two weeks ago.
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A few days ago we were discussing coyotes . Yes, I saw coyotes during my 3-decades long commute through very rural roads. I also saw probably a thousand deer, rabbits by the score, raccoons, many pheasants, woodchucks, at times a loose cow or horse, opossums, chickens , geese, ducks, one time I almost clobbered a loose sheep, I ran over a large blue racer snake as it was slinking across a road–thump thump!–but I never saw a pig wandering about a roadway.

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224731 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:15:43 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224731 88 miles an hour? That's some serious . . . ahem. 88 miles an hour? That’s some serious . . . ahem.

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224730 Dexter Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:02:44 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224730 Ricardo...how bad did Chino Hills get it? My wife's cousin who visits us every year lives there and he ain't answering his phone... LA Times online has some great photos and great coverage of the fires...their map basically shows our cousin's address under a big red roaring flame. Yesterday they had livestreaming KTLA news. I also have a couple friends in Canoga Park ... the maps seem to show they are safe. Ricardo…how bad did Chino Hills get it? My wife’s cousin who visits us every year lives there and he ain’t answering his phone…
LA Times online has some great photos and great coverage of the fires…their map basically shows our cousin’s address under a big red roaring flame.
Yesterday they had livestreaming KTLA news.
I also have a couple friends in Canoga Park … the maps seem to show they are safe.

]]> By: Rana http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224729 Rana Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:29:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224729 <i>Hey Gasman, Indiana has some wonderful crane watching sites during their fall migration. The Jasper Pulaski State Fish & Wildlife Area site: http://www.in.gov/dnr_old/fishwild/publications/scranes.htm has info about bird counts and best spotting sites within the park. It’s a long drive from Ft Wayne — about 4 hours if I remember correctly, but an amazing experience if you appreciate wildlife.</i> This is the very place we went! I can attest to it being an amazing experience - by the time the sun set, there were around 10,000 cranes clustered in the marshy area below the observation tower. There was also a single whooping crane in the middle - astonishing - and the air was full of birds and their trilling, burbling calls. Definitely worth the drive! Hey Gasman, Indiana has some wonderful crane watching sites during their fall migration. The Jasper Pulaski State Fish & Wildlife Area site:
http://www.in.gov/dnr_old/fishwild/publications/scranes.htm
has info about bird counts and best spotting sites within the park. It’s a long drive from Ft Wayne — about 4 hours if I remember correctly, but an amazing experience if you appreciate wildlife.

This is the very place we went! I can attest to it being an amazing experience – by the time the sun set, there were around 10,000 cranes clustered in the marshy area below the observation tower. There was also a single whooping crane in the middle – astonishing – and the air was full of birds and their trilling, burbling calls. Definitely worth the drive!

]]> By: Ricardo http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224669 Ricardo Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:59:16 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224669 Or think of the album cover from Tim Buckley's "Greetings From LA", photo taken from around 1971. It is a giant post card with a narrative about smog on the inside. I actually knew someone that moved to Pasadena in the 1970s that lived on Foothill Blvd for 9 months before he found out why it was called Foothill Blvd. When we finally get some rain, all the soil washes away because there is no vegetation to hold it in. The OC fire moved along Chino Hills over to Diamond Bar and Carbon Canyon, a place I really like. They are holding the fire at the 57 fwy for now. If it jumps over, then it is on to Rowland Heights and La Habra Heights to Whittier and Turnbull Canyon. That would not be good. Or think of the album cover from Tim Buckley’s “Greetings From LA”, photo taken from around 1971. It is a giant post card with a narrative about smog on the inside. I actually knew someone that moved to Pasadena in the 1970s that lived on Foothill Blvd for 9 months before he found out why it was called Foothill Blvd. When we finally get some rain, all the soil washes away because there is no vegetation to hold it in.

The OC fire moved along Chino Hills over to Diamond Bar and Carbon Canyon, a place I really like. They are holding the fire at the 57 fwy for now. If it jumps over, then it is on to Rowland Heights and La Habra Heights to Whittier and Turnbull Canyon. That would not be good.

]]> By: Catherine http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224618 Catherine Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:34:15 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224618 Mary, it is getting very smoky now. We are running AC too, and getting that oddly golden light. Think opening credits of The Rockford Files. I'm trying not to think of the ash falling in my yard as little burned pieces of people's mobile homes. Mary, it is getting very smoky now. We are running AC too, and getting that oddly golden light. Think opening credits of The Rockford Files. I’m trying not to think of the ash falling in my yard as little burned pieces of people’s mobile homes.

]]> By: LA Mary http://nancynall.com/2008/11/14/look-a-shiny-object/#comment-224607 LA Mary Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:17:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2609#comment-224607 Catherine, is it still not smoky there? It was terrible here last night. We closed all the windows and turned on the AC for the filtering benefits. What Ricardo said is true. The inhabited areas that burn are the ones most recently developed and built next to hilly, undeveloped areas. My coworkers from Santa Clarita and therabouts have lots of square feet of house, swimming pools and all that stuff, but they also have had to evacuate twice this year. Give my my funky city neighborhood anytime. Catherine, is it still not smoky there? It was terrible here last night. We closed all the windows and turned on the AC for the filtering benefits.
What Ricardo said is true. The inhabited areas that burn are the ones most recently developed and built next to hilly, undeveloped areas. My coworkers from Santa Clarita and therabouts have lots of square feet of house, swimming pools and all that stuff, but they also have had to evacuate twice this year. Give my my funky city neighborhood anytime.

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