Myself and several others, (I Hope) are looking for possible sites for a Night Time show. It has been interesting to find how badly lit some of our shopping centers or places with large parking lots actually are.
So far My search has been in the Lewiston/Auburn area with a few disappointments and one or two surprises. The Parking Garage idea has been thrown out for the sake of complying with the fact that several 4 x Each trucks can't make the height requirements at the Gate. Home depot is the best lit so far, but I can't bring myself to deal with the Mr. Universe Wannabe they have in management, so another town may be required when dealing with Homer.
A great lot but a little rough to get to is the East Auburn Baptist Church, they already do a show during the daylight and may not want to deal with some of us heathens at night. I'll get religion after the holidays if I need too, but the roof always trembles a little when I go into a church of any denomination.
So as you drive around in the evening hours, take a look at the lighting and keep us informed. We haven't locked into a specific area in the State and hope to have a handle on the "talking with Management" portion after the New Year.
11/24/09
11/21/09
Christmas Parties
Yes its that time of year, when we prepare for the Party Season. After the Thanksgiving Holiday we begin the annual foray of weekends without end and people we really wish wouldn't drink, as it only enhances the fact we didn't like them sober.
Most of the Clubs are gearing up for their Pot Luck driven Parties that usually end with more leftovers than Thanksgiving and a Yankee Swap. With the selection of Baked Beans and Chili at an all time high, the choices are not limited to just hot items. The choices of Pasta Salads and Potato Salads surpassing the national debt is a forgone conclusion. 72 different kinds of freaking meatballs that usually are so spicy they peel paint and enough Lasagna to float a boat in. Someone please tell me just how many plates of those nasty ass Deviled Eggs do we need to endure anyway. Why do we always enjoy it so?
The dessert end of this dinner has always amazed me and others with the varieties of Brownies entering the Infinitum Category. The little Mini Cream Puffs and tiny little Eclairs are intriguing only do to the fact that they are so small and only tease you into thinking you actually have had Dessert.
This thing we call a Yankee Swap is an Insult to all things Red Sox and needs a name change. Chinese Auction is insulting to Orientals and Economists so that won't work either. How about we call it, This Gift Really Sucks Swap. Now I realize that if you get stuck working in the $10 to $15 range your going to end up with some really bad stuff and that's the fun in it. The opportunity to regift is at hand only if you go to more than one party
I know for a fact that a certain 12volt Vacuum Cleaner has been to 3 Christmas Parties put on by 3 different Clubs 3 years in a row. The all time regifted prize goes to an Electric Nose Picker that is basically a Plastic Finger with a dead electrical plug, that made the rounds 6 years running.
The frequency of the gift changing hands in a single night is also part of the pleasure as a tacky gift will be exchanged but once and something different several times. The most memorable of these exchanges was a pair of C -Cup Titties that were actually ear muffs that went around the room most of the night. These actually went home with a young woman who wasn't as well endowed as the ear muffs. Then there was a sign that read Assholes Garage that finally went home after being exchanged 12 times. Whether the recepient is an Asshole is still being debated, all we know for sure is that he does have one.
If your Bah Humbug is really all you need to enjoy Christmas then you need to get out more and make your own merriment with all us other sufferers of bad gifts and baked bean gas with a side of deviled egg breath.
Remember that if your relatives stay more than 3 days you are now a hostage not a host.
P.S. Most Christmas Party Dates posted on http://roadscholars.webs.com
Most of the Clubs are gearing up for their Pot Luck driven Parties that usually end with more leftovers than Thanksgiving and a Yankee Swap. With the selection of Baked Beans and Chili at an all time high, the choices are not limited to just hot items. The choices of Pasta Salads and Potato Salads surpassing the national debt is a forgone conclusion. 72 different kinds of freaking meatballs that usually are so spicy they peel paint and enough Lasagna to float a boat in. Someone please tell me just how many plates of those nasty ass Deviled Eggs do we need to endure anyway. Why do we always enjoy it so?
The dessert end of this dinner has always amazed me and others with the varieties of Brownies entering the Infinitum Category. The little Mini Cream Puffs and tiny little Eclairs are intriguing only do to the fact that they are so small and only tease you into thinking you actually have had Dessert.
This thing we call a Yankee Swap is an Insult to all things Red Sox and needs a name change. Chinese Auction is insulting to Orientals and Economists so that won't work either. How about we call it, This Gift Really Sucks Swap. Now I realize that if you get stuck working in the $10 to $15 range your going to end up with some really bad stuff and that's the fun in it. The opportunity to regift is at hand only if you go to more than one party
I know for a fact that a certain 12volt Vacuum Cleaner has been to 3 Christmas Parties put on by 3 different Clubs 3 years in a row. The all time regifted prize goes to an Electric Nose Picker that is basically a Plastic Finger with a dead electrical plug, that made the rounds 6 years running.
The frequency of the gift changing hands in a single night is also part of the pleasure as a tacky gift will be exchanged but once and something different several times. The most memorable of these exchanges was a pair of C -Cup Titties that were actually ear muffs that went around the room most of the night. These actually went home with a young woman who wasn't as well endowed as the ear muffs. Then there was a sign that read Assholes Garage that finally went home after being exchanged 12 times. Whether the recepient is an Asshole is still being debated, all we know for sure is that he does have one.
If your Bah Humbug is really all you need to enjoy Christmas then you need to get out more and make your own merriment with all us other sufferers of bad gifts and baked bean gas with a side of deviled egg breath.
Remember that if your relatives stay more than 3 days you are now a hostage not a host.
P.S. Most Christmas Party Dates posted on http://roadscholars.webs.com
11/20/09
More
In order for me to write on this Blog I need to go to what they call a Dashboard, then click on the new post button and away we go. This Dashboard is also where I get the Comments that you send me (all but one of which has been posted).
Today I get to the Dashboard and something is different, a minor little icon in the upper corner tells me I have a Follower. At this point I look behind me to make sure that they are joking. It seems with the wave of social networking that has the world in its Satanic like grip, you can watch this blog like it is a chemistry experiment about to go bad in Mommies fridge. Great, I hope its not like a STD or H1N1.
Seriously, I think its a ballsy thing to do especially with this Blogs penchant for stating its opinion freely and clearly, sometimes against the grain, so kudos to Scott's Antique and Classic Cars and Parts which you can find at http://wwwscottschevypartscom.blogspot.com/ .
With that being said I will now say this, Thats the only Free Advertising your going to get.
Hope he knows what he got into, what with his twitter tweets, Facebook Faces and Linkedin links etc. all looking on like this place is special. Besides following this Blog is like following a Shit Truck sooner or later your going to get hit by a fresh turd.
Now on to business, It seems an unpublished Rumor is true and the Hodgman's Frozen Custard Show is going to be sponsored by Walmart and run by the Knucklebusters. Which in the eyes of this Editor is Fantastic. This will free up the somewhat beleagured membership to concentrate on the show itself rather than the Sponsorship.
The Frozen Custard Show has always been a great show and now it can get back to being the Show of old with its strict Class enforcement and great set-up.
Today I get to the Dashboard and something is different, a minor little icon in the upper corner tells me I have a Follower. At this point I look behind me to make sure that they are joking. It seems with the wave of social networking that has the world in its Satanic like grip, you can watch this blog like it is a chemistry experiment about to go bad in Mommies fridge. Great, I hope its not like a STD or H1N1.
Seriously, I think its a ballsy thing to do especially with this Blogs penchant for stating its opinion freely and clearly, sometimes against the grain, so kudos to Scott's Antique and Classic Cars and Parts which you can find at http://wwwscottschevypartscom.blogspot.com/ .
With that being said I will now say this, Thats the only Free Advertising your going to get.
Hope he knows what he got into, what with his twitter tweets, Facebook Faces and Linkedin links etc. all looking on like this place is special. Besides following this Blog is like following a Shit Truck sooner or later your going to get hit by a fresh turd.
Now on to business, It seems an unpublished Rumor is true and the Hodgman's Frozen Custard Show is going to be sponsored by Walmart and run by the Knucklebusters. Which in the eyes of this Editor is Fantastic. This will free up the somewhat beleagured membership to concentrate on the show itself rather than the Sponsorship.
The Frozen Custard Show has always been a great show and now it can get back to being the Show of old with its strict Class enforcement and great set-up.
11/16/09
Season
We are now in the middle of Football Season, the beginning of the Holiday Season, the end of the Racing Season and looking forward to a Great Show Season in 2010.
But lost to a bunch of people is the fact that we are already 2 Shows behind on the new television season at Cruisin' New England Magazine.
Cruisin' New England Magazine started out as a Rag that was poorly planned and doubtful at best, but through perseverance and hard work by the owner and front man Paul Mennett it has become a favorite resource of many in the hobby. With its program of "Super Wheels Qualifier" shows and its "Super Wheels Showdown" in Boston the Magazine has done nothing but promote the hobby in the print Media.
Last year they expanded with a Television show that was a Showcase to many Shows and Collections. They even Showcased the "Past Gas and Ancient Oil" collection of Tim Wallace with many local Cars being Chosen for a Weekend at Mohegan Sun Casino.
The Season has already begun and its 3rd installment airs this Saturday. The nice part is it repeats during the week and sometimes airs older episode as filler on the Channel known as NESN which is the network that carries them all. Times vary, with new episodes airing at 5:30PM Saturdays unless there is a Bruins Game.
You can get more info at http://www.nesn.com/ or http://cruisinnewengland.com/
If you don't get NESN maybe you can hook up with a fellow hobbyist who does and call out for pizza and make it a Saturday Night tradition. Sounds like a better idea than hanging out at Home Depot getting stemmy over the Chrome Sink Drain.
But lost to a bunch of people is the fact that we are already 2 Shows behind on the new television season at Cruisin' New England Magazine.
Cruisin' New England Magazine started out as a Rag that was poorly planned and doubtful at best, but through perseverance and hard work by the owner and front man Paul Mennett it has become a favorite resource of many in the hobby. With its program of "Super Wheels Qualifier" shows and its "Super Wheels Showdown" in Boston the Magazine has done nothing but promote the hobby in the print Media.
Last year they expanded with a Television show that was a Showcase to many Shows and Collections. They even Showcased the "Past Gas and Ancient Oil" collection of Tim Wallace with many local Cars being Chosen for a Weekend at Mohegan Sun Casino.
The Season has already begun and its 3rd installment airs this Saturday. The nice part is it repeats during the week and sometimes airs older episode as filler on the Channel known as NESN which is the network that carries them all. Times vary, with new episodes airing at 5:30PM Saturdays unless there is a Bruins Game.
You can get more info at http://www.nesn.com/ or http://cruisinnewengland.com/
If you don't get NESN maybe you can hook up with a fellow hobbyist who does and call out for pizza and make it a Saturday Night tradition. Sounds like a better idea than hanging out at Home Depot getting stemmy over the Chrome Sink Drain.
11/13/09
Watch the Calendars
Just a quick little note that some dates for next year are already up on the Calendars of certain sites including the Road Scholars at http://roadscholars.webs.com/ . For the National Events listing visit the Site for a link to all the Major event sites.
Bonney Eagle is on, for the usual place and time and details can be found at this little link, http://www.bonnyeaglecarshow.com/index.html .
Next up is a minor date change that really isn't a date change. Downeast Street Rods Rod Run is scheduled for the 20th and 21st of August in Hebron at the Hebron Pines Camp Ground, which is technically a change of date but still falls on the 3rd weekend of August. Hopefully East Auburn Baptist Church and Telstar will stay on the weekend of the 14th - 15th.
Rumor has it, and at this time that's all it is, is a rumor, that the All Clubs Meeting hosted by the Rusty Nuts will be sometime in February.
The World of Wheels/Autorama Show in Boston is Scheduled for March rather than the January date of old.
Keep an eye out for any Calendar updates and mail to here (exhaustfumes@live.com) or to roadscholars@live.com so they can get it on the Calendar.
Hope you all are getting over the $15.00 Cheap Ass Trophy withdrawals. If not, a support group can be formed or perhaps an intervention is needed.
NEXT.
Bonney Eagle is on, for the usual place and time and details can be found at this little link, http://www.bonnyeaglecarshow.com/index.html .
Next up is a minor date change that really isn't a date change. Downeast Street Rods Rod Run is scheduled for the 20th and 21st of August in Hebron at the Hebron Pines Camp Ground, which is technically a change of date but still falls on the 3rd weekend of August. Hopefully East Auburn Baptist Church and Telstar will stay on the weekend of the 14th - 15th.
Rumor has it, and at this time that's all it is, is a rumor, that the All Clubs Meeting hosted by the Rusty Nuts will be sometime in February.
The World of Wheels/Autorama Show in Boston is Scheduled for March rather than the January date of old.
Keep an eye out for any Calendar updates and mail to here (exhaustfumes@live.com) or to roadscholars@live.com so they can get it on the Calendar.
Hope you all are getting over the $15.00 Cheap Ass Trophy withdrawals. If not, a support group can be formed or perhaps an intervention is needed.
NEXT.
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