during my peak goth days...

that is french riviera style. i should know... i live on the côte d’azur and my house has a very similar colour scheme, the paint and wooden shutters. though he is missing the terra-cotta tile roof, as far as i can tell, though you could probably call the roof in the st tropezian style. :)

thank you! if someone did not mention mcmansion hell, i would have had to. :)

moving abroad FTW! :)

how do i get snow off my car? by living in the south, near the sea where it has snowed maybe three times in the last ten years and if it actually does snow we don’t go anywhere, we just wait for it to melt off. :D

and the next one will be called x.XBox Series X.x... :D

am i the only one that thought of this movie when i first saw the truck? :D

i do not understand how no-one has referenced this movie... :D

my mom used to own a small town greyhound bus station, and i worked there on and off when i was 17-18 years old. $16 seems like a lot, but back in the day (this was late 80s), you could buy a max priced ticket for $99 one way, to pretty much anywhere in the continental US. meaning that you could go from florida to…

gawd, i live in south france and the rural roads here would be a nightmare for AV. i just went to the chestnut festival in a local, but sort of remote village. the road in is technically a two way road, but it would barely qualify as a one way in the US. this is the only road that i have ever been on where it is…

no spooky story here, but if you ever get to paris go to the catacombs there. the bones of six million parisians rest there. mile upon mile of them, stacked six feet high and 6 feet deep. there is no other place that i have been that has been quite so creepy.(photo taken 2014)

yeah, the film title pretty much sealed the deal for me from having more than a passing interest in this film. i stopped at T2, i might have seen T3 but if so it left so light an impression i might as well have nor seen it, and i will leave a good thing in the past and not try to recapture the magic.

i don’t know... it seems like IO9 either gushes over scifi films or are slightly disappointed. i tend to ignore IO9 film reviews for exactly that reason. ;)

with michael jackson’s “wanna be startin somethin” i just thought i was mishearing the lyrics and i was, sort of. i mean why would he be saying “you’re a vegetable, and i hate you!” why would he call anyone a vegetable? it turns he does say “you’re a vegetable” it is just the second part of the lyrics in not correct.

oh and by the way it is pronounced “co-go-lahn” for future reference. :)

it is funny to see this, since cogolin is the next village over from where i live. some of the roads are still narrow as hell, with no shoulder and a deep ditch! i can totally see the utility of this. :D

my silliest regret is not a regret anymore...

for some reason i am singing, in my head, “i crushed a car and i liked it!” :D

funny thing enough, i did the almost same thing. for reasons my family called me by my middle name all my life until i started university. there the profs called me by my first name and from then on i was known only by my first name and i embraced it. it changed my life for sure. there are still a few holdouts from my…

i don’t like pranks or practical jokes, it is just not my style. though i did do one that sort of backfired hilariously. it was back in my university days. i was living in a housing co-op, a 10 room house with 12 people communally living there. we were pretty well organized; we had prepared meals 6 days a week and…