The Wizard of OZ (2005)

Not wanting to rest on our laurels after our smashing success of casting a current remake of Casablanca, we plunged right into another classic movie that we would have remade today, The Wizard of OZ.

Role Actor 1939 Actor
Dorothy Gale Lindsay Lohan Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz Robin Williams Frank Morgan
The Scarecrow Jim Carey Ray Bolger
The Cowardly Lion Brad Garrett Bert Lahr
The Tin Man Don Cheadle Jack Haley
The Good Witch Charlize Theron Billie Burke
The Wicked Witch Sarah Jessica Parker Margaret Hamilton
Uncle Henry Robert Redford Charley Grapewin
Auntie Em Susan Sarandon Clara Blandick
Mayor of Munchkin City Danny Devito Charles Becker

Mod Fever

I’ve got a C note earmarked for Miata mods burning a hole in my pocket.

I started out going to buy some clear side markers for the front and some stealth turn signal bulbs. I would then pull off the yellow lamin-x fog light protectors, giving the front of the car a unified white light look.

Then I tossed around adding teeth again. I had some Alley Gator ones on the Laguna, so I would like something different this time. The only other one I really like is the Diablo, but in my travels along the Miata lane of the information superhighway this weekend I have come across two cars with those teeth installed, one of which is a Garnet Red! Are thet too popular or was this just a random happenstance.

My other thought is to go with something I saw on a car at the Rspeed Open House last year – A side mount for a front license plate with a Japanese tag on it. South Carolina doesn’t require a front tag, so if others can put a “GO COCKS!” tag on their cars…

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 14

Mr. Fletcher’s Ride – January

Mr. Fletcher's Ride - JanuaryWent for a stroll in the woods today. First time I’ve walked further than the car to work and back since I broke a toe a week ago. This was a test walk to see how I would do and to snap my monthly photo looking southwest at the corner of Mr. Fletcher’s Ride and an unnamed path about 1/2 mile in from our usual entry point. Foot felt good, but I took the picture turned a little further to the right than the previous two. I’ve got to remember to glance at the pics I’ve already posted so I can get lined up right.

RIP BDFC

I closed up shop on the Barndoor Fan Club this afternoon. I copied all the files onto a sub domain of this site though ( barndoorfanclub.mr-miata.net ) for posterity. My hold on the domain lasts until the middle of next month and I have an agreement with the hosting company until March sometime, but I wanted to leave a custom 404 page out there for a while before it goes dark. I sent out an email to everyone on the list I have and posted something on the Miata.net Forum telling them I was hanging up the spikes. I thought I had someone who was going to take over the show, but the last I heard anything from him was Thanksgiving. Maybe this will jog his memory.

I still remember when I got my order of 125 three inch diameter Club stickers, I thought I would never be able to get rid of them all. Well, 2-1/2 years later they were all gone. I even had T-shirts professionally screen-printed, four different times, probably over 60 shirts. About 10 of them I gave away as prizes in photo contests. The stickers were gone, the T-shirts were gone, heck even my car with barndoors was gone, it was time to hang it up.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 13

Winter Returns

Not with a bang, but our more normal weather returned with a passing front last night. How easy we became used to the warmer temps. Today at quitting time it was sunny and lower 50s, but we left the top up because it was “cold.” In another couple of weeks we will be putting the top down in those conditions…

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 13

The Tide Subsides?

Since Tuesday morning’s peak of 102 pieces of spam the total has been slowly ebbing. Wednesday’s total was 99, Thursday was 83 and this morning only 72. I’ll let you how the weekend goes on Monday, but for now here are a couple of my favorites:

Samurai st0ck InfO from that noted Japanese warrior, ngdgqasapwibfj@singmail.com

bequeath She sleeps around from Shakespeare using the nom de plume, Aelgcz@soha.com

The hit man I hired, bjfdesliwqbq@francimel.com discretely emails me, hey bro-its done

This week’s most anticipated email is [no subject] from [no sender]. Finally. I have been waiting on pins and needles to hear from [him] on [that].

Getting There

Last night I imported all the entries from the other three retired blogs. Don’t know whether or not I want to just leave the old ones up in archive form or just kill them and leave behind a custom 404 page…

I finally got around to doing the search template today, so when searching it looks like you are at a site that cares about cohesive style. I’m still tweaking the look of everything to get it just so, most might not notice because everything is basically functional. The archive navigation needs work, both date and category-wise.