A night at the races
Tonight is Jon's Cub Scout pack's Pinewood Derby races. He's been working hard on his car with his dad, Bob - they're both very excited. I am glad Bob competed in Pinewood Derbies himself when he was growing up because I have no clue about such things. It will be fun to watch and no matter how Jon's car does I am happy for him and the effort he has put into the car. While many Pinewood Derby cars end up being solely the creation (and ego trip) of the father I can honestly say Jon's done a lot of the work himself. I saw him do some of it (with Bob's help and a bit of mine) at a high school industrial arts shop one evening, roughing in the shape a drill press, band saw and sander. He's hand-sanded and painted it, too. So the car is his. That is as it should be.
Gentlemen, start your engines...
[And perhaps as psychic prep for tonight I watched one of my favorite movies last week while Les was at work.]
2 comments:
Looking at the imdb page that you linked for Two Lane Blacktop, I notice that all of the characters' names are not names, but titles, like "The Driver," "G.T.O," "The Girl."
Except one character: Harry Dean Stanton, as ... "H. D. Stanton."
Cool. It's going on the list.
It's a very "minimalist" movie - lots of people (LOTS of people) don't like it. It has a very high Rotten Tomatoes score, too. Whatever. I think it's great.
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