The Doors debut is worlds better than Sgt Pepper.

I plum forgot about G&R, they belong in the conversation. Considered the Airplane, but I don’t think they had a sustained enough period of excellence. And JA is at least somewhat responsible for the worst song of all time, “We Built This City (on Rock and Roll)“.

I knew I shouldn’t have looked. Oy.

The Galaxie is the secret. My 66 convertible is every bit as striking as a GTO, Chevelle or Impala, and costs about 1/4 as much. Shares drivetrain parts with the everpresent Mustang so I will have engines galore as long as I keep mine. And it’s usually the only one at every car show I attend.

That Duster is pretty hot, too.

Cheers for the ‘66 Country Squire love! I had a ‘65 Country Sedan until my wife made me sell it (actually choose between my two Fords and I wanted to keep the convertible). I still miss it terribly and am dismayed that they have gone up about ten times in value from when I had mine 15 years ago.

The guys with Corvettes, Mustangs and Camaros at the informal car shows near me tend to all park together in the same row(s), which is convenient for ignoring them. So many of the same thing. Bleah.

This is what I have been banking on. I’m born in ‘66 so not quite a Boomer. Hoping that in another 10 years they’ll be dying off and I can scoop up a GTO for cheap because the dead boomer’s heirs have no interest.

Hipster tools saying the Beach Boys suck and the Velvet Underground are great. Laughable. VU is shit. It is the band everyone says they like in order to sound knowledgeable yet never, ever listen to. Lou Reed is right up there with the most overrated “geniuses” in music history. Garbage.

I’ve had this discussion with friends and these are the contenders, generally: Beach Boys, The Doors, Aerosmith, Grateful Dead, Nirvana, Van Halen, Allman Brothers, Eagles (meh, personally), Metallica, Jimi Hendrix Experience (who I find difficult to consider American given 2 out of 3 are Brits), Tom Petty and the…

We sporadically get several magazines we never subscribed to. We got EW for a long time, some investing/finance mags, Some food mags, and Rolling Stone for the past two years. I think publishers buy lists of people they think might be interested and send magazines hoping we will enjoy and start paying.

Maybe there’s just less domestic abuse because everyone’s so happy with the new president!

Baloney. They get housing, food stamps, use our education system and hospitals. And they pay little to no taxes.

If we get rid of the illegal immigrants in California, who’s going to pick all our food in the fields?

The shoulder users also jam up traffic when they inevitably have to force themselves back into an actual lane. I love easing my crappy old free car just far enough over the line so that a shoulder passer has to ride on whatever grass/weeds mess there is off the side.

Superman actors entertain me for a couple of hours. Taco Bell cashiers give me different things than what I ordered. And diarrhea.

The only thing more amazing than how bad Jackson is at this is that he somehow convinced Jeannie Buss to shtup him for years. She’s a kajillionaire and kinda hot; he is a golem with the hanger left inside his suit jacket.

I stopped rooting for the Knicks when they traded Starks for Sprewell, but I follow the soap opera in the papers, for laughs. I pray that Jackson trades Krapsnaps just to see the local media lose their shit.

Movies today are better. TV is infinitely better. But the music, it’s not even close to the 60s and 70s. Imagine being alive at a time when the Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin, Doors, Hendrix were around and releasing new records and even appearing on the same bills occasionally!

For the 2000 World Series people were buying half and half hats with both logos and colors. I would sooner wear a NAMBLA hat with my phone number on it than a garment bearing the Vertical Swastika, and these things were especially hideous. Those people were the worst: “Oh, I’m just excited for New York!”. Die.