Month: July 2024

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Summer is Fading Edition of SORT
As of Monday, July 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1963 Porsche 356B 1993 Lada Niva 2005 Jaguar Super V8
Like last week’s Sport pick, it is basically a VW Beetle with a swoopy body. đŸ˜‰ Don’t see a lot of Ladas for sale here and there is probably a good reason. I can’t really explain this pick, maybe it was just the photograph of the car.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 1979 Bianco S Series 2 Sold for $30,001 on 7/25/24
Off-Road: 2007 Hummer H2 Sold for $29,250 on 7/25/24
Touring: 2011 Porsche Panamera Sold for $27,000 on 7/25/24

I’m Disappointed

I’m a little disappointed in the Red Sox. They lost 5 of 6 games on the west coast road trip and 2 of 3 games against the pretty weak Colorado Rockies. Maybe it was the altitude? But the FRS can redeem themselves this weekend by beating the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.

I’m a little disappointed in Bad Sisters. The show itself was great, humor, pathos, an extremely unlikeable villain, a great twist at the end with the perfect ending. So why am I disappointed? They have greenlit a second season and what the heck could it possibly be about.

I’m a little disappointed in Fred Meyer, why the heck is the jarred applesauce on a different aisle than where the applesauce single-serve snack cups are.

I am a lot disappointed in Peacock‘s Tour de France coverage. In the past we had 2 options for viewing the bike race, one was with the announcers Bob Roll & Phil Liggett and geared for the American audience and the second one had Ant McCrossan and was geared for the rest of the English speaking world. We always chose that second option because it was commercial free and Mr. McCrossan knew the riders and was always calling the action of the race in front of him. But this year the only option available was the Roll and Liggett version where they misidentified riders and were always chatting about old races or past riders. What made this even worse was the annoying ESPN style constant scroll on the bottom of the picture, plus there were commercials even though we had paid for Peacock Premium and the commercial free add-on.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Bad Sister Edition of SORT
As of Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1979 Bianco S Series 2 2007 Hummer H2 2011 Porsche Panamera
I was so into watching a show I found on Apple TV+ called Bad Sisters that I totally missed the fact that it was Monday, my normal SORT day, so today I’ve picked cars that are sort of bad sisters of a good car.
It is basically a VW Beetle with a swoopy body. This is a 3/4-ton GM truck with a derivative body. It looks like a 911 converted into a limo.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 1955 Lancia Aurelia Sold for $755,000 on 7/17/24
Off-Road: 1996 Land Rover Discovery Sold for $7,700 on 7/20/24
Touring: 1965 Ford Thunderbird Sold for $10,500 on 7/17/24

Sure Didn’t Need That Break

The Red Sox had the best record in baseball from June 15th until July 14th with a 17-7 record. Then the 4 day All-Star break happened. “Second” half started Friday night and the Sox were in LA to play the Dodgers. They promptly lost all three games in spite of being ahead by several runs in two of them. Admittedly the Dodgers are a better ball club than the FRS, but they should have been able to win one of those three games.

Now they are off to play 3 games against the Colorado Rockies who are 36-64 and 23 games behind their division leaders, those same Dodgers. I hope the altitude doesn’t make them high1 and the Red Sox win at least 2 out of the three games.

The Year is 1975

While looking around Amazon Prime for something to watch I found this little blast from the past, A Boy and His Dog, in the “Prime, Recently Added Movies” section. This movie came out in late 1975 and it was set post World War IV in the distant future year of 2024.

Donna and I were dating at the time and our go to date night was a movie at the on base theater at NAS Patuxent River, so I’m guessing we saw this together. It was 25¢ each to get in and we took turns, one would pay the admission and the other would buy the popcorn and drink. I certainly remember seeing this and being a sci-fi buff, I probably enjoyed it. The female nudity probably helped in that regard as well. I’m guessing Donna enjoyed it not so much, she has probably totally forgotten it.

The original trailer is totally unhinged:

And the trailer perfectly represents what you’d see if you watched the entire movie which if you are so inclined, is available to watch for free on YouTube. And when I say inclined, I mean under the influence of the brain chemistry altering substance of your choice.

Personally, having watched that trailer and some of the other clips on YouTube, I don’t think I could watch it again even if I did partake in a gummy of the finest Indica cannabis available to me.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

No Reserve Edition of SORT
As of Monday, July 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1955 Lancia Aurelia 1996 Land Rover Discovery 1965 Ford Thunderbird
All these cars are listed as No Reserve so there might be a bargain to be had here. But probably not the Lancia because it is also a Premium listing.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 2022 Porsche Boxster Sold for $94,500 on 7/10/24
Off-Road: 1960 Porsche Tractor Sold for $26,000 on 7/11/24
Touring: 1991 Porsche 928 Sold for $23,928 on 7/12/24

Clone Club Redux

A couple months ago I started rewatching Rumpole of the Bailey and of the 43 episodes total (7 seasons of 6 episodes plus 1 feature length film) of the show I got through a little more than half before needing a break. Not that I’m not still enjoying the episodes, but the show is from the 70’s so it is kind of tough to watch the typical low resolution format of that time period.

Because I have been revisiting some of my favorite older TV shows, I decided that maybe it was time to rewatch what was a nearly 5 year obsession a decade ago, Orphan Black. I was exposed to this sci-fi show like nothing else before it, all because I saw a promo video for it on io9:

The first thing I was surprised by was that I forgot how much we get to see of our protagonist. I guess BBC America was not afraid to go full cable TV as we get to see a rear view of that male cast member too.

I’m only 3 episodes in of Orphan Black of the 50 total (5 seasons of 10 episodes) and if my recollection is right, it gets weirder as the seasons progress, so I just might not make it all the way through all of this show before giving up too.