My 30th Birthday Part II

My dream came true and they opened a car museum in philadelphia! Didn't you hear what i said!? oh, you don't care. Anyway, people were telling me a car museum opened and i was like, "that's cool, it's probably nascar or something but that's cool." But I looked at the website and it wasn't nascar. Heck, there were barely even any american cars there. Just fine, vintage, european sportscars. my favorite!Hey, where is this place? Oh, i know! I think we just go this way a couple blocks. It's hot out here! I'm not familiar with this part of town. Maybe it's down this way.We found it! And it's even open!
Alpha Romeo! so far so good!I don't know what to do. What happens when all your dreams come true?



Cool! Gullwing mercedes. Syd Mead owns one. I hope i can get one someday. I promise to take care of it!


A pair of matching bmws. The more cars look like toys the better. These look just like toys so they rule.A super rare cobra coupe. You can tell it's real because it's kind of rough and rusty.



Another alpha. How elegant.



This place is fun. Auburn Speedster. Heartbreaking isn't it?



Another Auburn. Wow. It's so beautiful i'm getting a toothache


Here we are fighting the crowds in the cafeteria. Philly is not a real big car town.




Lady mechanics in the girls bathroom. (emily took it. I didn't go in there)



Another 300sl. I like this one even more than the first one!




Jaguars. I'm shitting right now.



A very streamline peugeot. I'm still going.



A 1957 Ferrari Testa rossa. I have no more shit to give. I'm all out of shit.




A very lowwwwww Aston Martin. Thrilling


Bugatti. The photo speaks for itself. I wish i got my senior picture taken in this car instead of leaning against a tree.


Thanks Emily for experiencing this with me. I know you enjoyed it just as much as i did.

My 30th Birthday Part I

I had a great, classic birthday. "What kind of brand new drug did you do for your birthday?" you might ask. I didn't do any drugs! We didn't even got to a bar! We didn't even go to any peep shows! We didn't even hide any cameras in any sororities! It was really fun though. Ice cream parlor and arcade. See? classic!
First we went to The Franklin Fountain. I may have talked about it before. It's old fashioned. The early 1900's must have been the golden age of sweets. (no, i don't know that cause i was there. i wasn't born until 1978 jerk!) A lot of ice cream parlors look like they're inspired by that period. Barber shop quartets too. I notice little things sometimes.
I felt like number one because strangers kept wishing me happy birthday.

Here I'm holding up 3 fingers to represent my 30 years. the fact that it's also the sign of the gang i go to on tuesdays and weekends is a coincidence.


ON TO THE ARCADEI like this kind of basketball. I'm not letting anyone down .This is going great. i didn't even day dream and drift off like when i play real basketball.
Head to head competition. Catch the fever.
Hmmmmm. Ipod, wii, dyson, flat screen.......



We did see some strippers but they were so small they don't count.

yeah!

wow, we had a great time with the bethancourts. they'd already been to philly so we mostly focused on enjoying ourselves and takin' 'er easy instead of another philly tour. it was awesome i tell you. this weekend reinforced my belief in fun. always, always fun. foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

car show!!!! (come on be a sport)

the philly car show came here last week. i went alone which i seriously don't mind a bit.it was very fun. should i say it was fun or should i say it temporarily extinguished and insatiable desire planted in me at a very early age by my father?

ever seen one of these? it's called a nash something. it's beautiful don't you think?
this corvette was awe inspiring. i love it's thrilling color scheme.


this is a cord. does the bumper look familiar to you? you may have scene it on the show "My two dads".

ferrari seems to be back on track with this guy. i love it.


i want to make wood toys out of all these cars . emily, i need a bandsaw.

Almost done

emily's bike is almost finished. will she ride it ? only time will tell. here are some photos
the bike badge has a photo ID not unlike our bank of america atm cards.

real wood fenders. i kind of wanted aluminum ones but i already told too many people i was making wood ones and i could tell they wanted to see some results.



the handgrips match the fenders.

here's our logo. the people will be like, "ooh, that sounds like pricy french brand." only we'll know it's just a kind-of-crumby raleigh. heh heh heh



chainguard painted to match.

Arizona Trip

emily and i had a great trip to arizona. i'm so happy i came out about my obsession with cars (and other things with glassy paint jobs). people seem to be very understanding. the arizona crew took me to 2 car shows. nice of um.

first, these girls made some cupcakes for the shower.
then hashifa sang karaoke -guantanamera!

then my nephew and i played HOT WHEELS!then we went to the first car show.

i want a go cart like this.

tough with a touch of classsssssss.

celebrity sightings! lightning mcqueen!
and bumble bee from transformers!

some great motorcycles with wonderful paint jobs.




the next day just emilys dad and i went to the barret jackson auction you might have seen on tv.
the first section was full of stuff a millionare might put in his 20 car garage/ hangout.
tons of restored neon signs along with kids rides, stuffed buffalo, western sculptures etc.
this boat was one of the best things in the world thanks to it's beautiful brass hardware and mahogany hull.



i want to make a toy of this

this is already like a toy so it'd be redundant to make a toy out of it
here's the cars from monster garage


the monkey's car


robosaurus was for sale! he did his thing.



fortunately he didn't eat us or our saturn and we went home.