Prior to the invention of airbags, women fashioned their hair into organic crash helmets similar to the one seen in that picture. Spoiler Men didn't need to as advertising assures me that women of the era were solely responsible for all road accidents. /sarcasm
My first car was a pale blue 1969 VW bug. I bought it in 1975 and sold it to my son's best friend about 2007. I never put a dent in it but I wore out two engines and was well into the third before the new kid took it over. Took it on slopes that would scare an ATV, through snowstorms, down muddy mountain tracks, and a jillion miles of dusty backroads. Amazing Grace was well named and I still think of her fondly.
^^^ This is a wife beater. A "muscle tee" is a more complete shirt, with full shoulders rather than straps, but no sleeves. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https://skinzwearphotography.com/prodImages/Mens-Sleeveless-White-Lycra-Skin-Tight-Muscle-Tee-Shirt-G20-3499-F.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs. He called himself an ovophobe. To an interviewer in 1963, he said, "I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there's that yellow thing, round, without any holes…Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it."
Headline of the Day: Gang of turkeys attacks B.C. man, breaking both his hips and a finger https://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/both-hips-broken-following-bird-attack-on-man-in-chase/
I watched (40 minutes of) The Mummy over the weekend (the Tom Cruise version) and very quickly realised not even your favourite actor(s) can save certain films.
Marijuana use is outpacing cigarette use for the first time on record. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/30/1120024399/marijuana-cigarette-use-gallup-poll
I had a flurry of strange thoughts related to this. And I wonder if Hitch was being honset, or if he understood the implications of what he said about eggs— Ovophobia would be a perfect explanation or rather a perfect motive behind certain of his obsessions and themes in his most famous movies. A fear of eggs, symbolically, would relate to fear of women and birds. Specifically a fear of the reproductive capacity of women I suppose. This seems to fit his repetitive depictions of a certain type of women in his films. In both The Birds and Psycho he created subtle allusions that the characters were trapped in symbolic birdcages, and in Psycho, surrounded by the stuffed bodies of predatory birds. He seemed to be suggesting some people are trapped in houses (lives) that are little more than cages, and that some people are birds of prey that feed on the little chickadees and finches among us. Cool freaky stuff!
Here's Rob Ager's analysis of the symbolic elements in The Birds supporting what I wrote above: Hitchcock's THE BIRDS film analysis
The first car I actually bought, as opposed to parental hand-me-down, was a two-toned, brown and pale white, 1952 DeSoto Firedome, that had been garaged for many years (this was in about 1980). Big roomy car with a plush but slightly worn interior, comfortable to cruise in. parallel parking was a pain, but once I mastered that I could park anything. It had a semi-automatic transmission -- one used a clutch to put it into drive but then it shifted on its own, except for reverse. Anyway, I loved it. A couple years in some drunk in a pickup ran a red light and T-boned me. His truck got towed away, I was unharmed and drove home. But the car was beyond repair. I got stiffed by the insurance company (this was long before my law school days) and I sold it to a guy who wanted the engine, which (I know little about such things) was said to be a very desirable early Chrysler hemi, which he put into a racing car. End of story. Except that being a long-haired driver in an unusual car, I was a magnet to the local gendarmes, and one time, with a carful of other long-hairs, I was pulled over by a carful of plainclothes cops who made us all get out while they searched the car and us for dope. But they found none.
My daughter used to get stopped every couple of weeks by the constabulary of a community she drove through from work to home. She said to be fair, she might've stopped her too: older vehicle driving (probably too fast) through town at an odd hour of the morning. (Daughter was a cop.) Once when she got stopped and showed the officer her badge, they got into conversation and he found out she was driving almost an hour each way to work. He told her her was the recruiting officer for his PD, gave her his card, and told her to call him when she got tired of the commute. Only my daughter would get stopped by LE and end up being offered a job.
Here's a wife beater in the future. Perhaps it should be a little more narrow over the shoulders, but it's close enough. This episode always makes me laugh. The robot has to break up with his (human) girlfriend, and so his research tells him that this is the proper attire to kick your woman outta da house. I like the beer bottle and the underwear too. Nice touch.
The #28 and #29 singles on Billboard's 1985 year end charts were 'Loverboy' by Billy Ocean, and 'Lovergirl' by Teena Marie, respectively.
I did one of those silly click bait quizzes asking if you could name a movie from just one screen shot from the film. Result: I need to quit watching so many movies. I got 38 out 40 right.
I am hooked on a couple of daily movie trivia games. One is framed.wtf - this one is similar to what you mentioned. It will give you one frame to guess, and if you get it wrong, you can get a new frame up to a total of 6. It gets progressively easier the more frames you need to get it right. The other one is boxofficega.me - it will give you a random box office weekend from the 1980s up til the present, and you have to guess the top 5 movies that weekend using the fewest clues possible. Each clue you reveal removes points from your total.
Octopuses sometimes punch fish out of spite. https://massivesci.com/notes/octopus-fish-collaboration-punch/#:~:text=While%20observing%20different%20Octopus%20cyanea,behavior%20serves%20an%20important%20function.
