The Lovely Miss Parker

So...the lovely Molly Parker has again starred in a movie so racy and/or controversial, that I will again have to wait forever to see it.  Center of the World  was released in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco last week to both excellent and very, very bad reviews.  You may recall my mentioning having seen Kissed a couple of weeks back.  I saw the trailer for that while I was in the theater seeing Fargo, for &diety's sake, and it took me five years for the film to get shown on IFC.

If I were a boy, Molly Parker would be my personal drooling point on the silver screen (and the smaller one too -- Twitch City rocks.)  I still admit to drooling over her a little -- as far as that goes.[1]  I love that she does risky films.  That's great and all, but the problem is that the distribution on such films is very irregular.

Yeah, I didn't write over the weekend.  

We had a house guest, and it was the most relaxing house guest experience I've had out there.  Furthermore, as it happens, he knows about Porches and Volkswagens and he helped Tino get the car up on jack stands and they poked around at it and talked car.  I had no idea David knew so much about cars, but you learn something new every day.

I stripped some of the horrible black paint off the car trim that helped make that poor car the "vehicular equivalent of a members only jacket".  If you look at the picture, I did the engine grille and the bumper extensions.  I did some window trim too, but you can't see it in that picture.  I feel sorry for the car.  It's previous owner apparently wanted to be James Spader.

Also, it's original color is not red-red, but burgundy-red, according to the geological layering of the paint and the color number stamped on one of the door plates.  It's a custom color, but not an attractive one.  Tino's thinking something bright.  I'm not going to tell you what his choice is, but I'm actually quite thrilled about it.  I know I'd love to have a car that color, and it's a great color for this car.

I'm sure he'll explain more about the car, what's been done to it and what will be done to it on his site.  As Tino's dad said, "there's nothing wrong with that car that money won't fix."

The stuff I was using to remove the evil flat black paint is called "Aircraft Remover."  No where on the can does it say "paint remover."  It removed paint disconcertingly well[2], but I cannot report on it's effectiveness at removing aircraft.  Eventually, I started to think of the paint as aircraft.[3]  Every time I needed a break, I kept thinking:  "I deserve a break.  Removing aircraft is hard work."  In reality, it was a nice day and I needed to make sure I got lots of fresh air to counteract any fumage.

Note to self:  bring a sweater to work.  Man, is it cold in here.  It's such a crime to be cold when it's 88' and sunny outside!  Either that, or I have to start wearing padded bras.  I may leave early today, mostly because I'm not willing to sit here and freeze in the air conditioning breeze.  Not that it won't be overly warm at home -- we can't turn on our air until May 15, which is when RELAC comes back on line for summer.

I did figure out how to sneak in and out of the building at work.  Finally.  I can park in back and enter and leave without passing any of my coworkers desks.  Of course, I sit next my erstwhile boss, but she can reach me whenever she wants, whether I'm here or not.