Hopeful Sinner is one year old today. It's halfway to the terrible twos. There's a whole bunch of mp3s now. Go listen to Charlie Terrell.

I hope to never own a Toyota. This is not because the quality of their vehicles. It is because of their latest ad. In it, a woman has her old car turned into a brand new Toyota. It is a take on MTV's Pimp My Ride where people have their cars made over, “Pimped.” What I find so offensive – so offensive that I hope to never own a Toyota – isn't the take on the MTV show, but the fact the woman's old car is an old car, probably something from the early 60's, a classic car. The car is a bit rusty, but looks like it needs a ting of body work and a good paint job. It looks like Toyota tore parts of the front grill out so you couldn't easily tell what the car is.

I am into classic cars, and I'm not the only one. I can not imagine that in fifty years people will be coveting a Toyota Celica. The Toyota people could have used one of their older cars in the ad and achieved the same effect. Now they've just alienated me and a whole bunch of other people.

Maybe Toyota is bitter because they've never had a classic car and probably never will. Oh, Toyota, all will be forgiven if you send me the car in the commercial, the classic car, not the Toyota. You send me that car, and I'll get a Toyota truck one day and go back to saying you guys are okay.

Last night there was the yearly Perseid Meteor Shower. Again, I missed it do to bad weather. It became cloudy just after sunset and has stayed that way. Oh well. You can't see them all.


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