The Suckbird met its sad demise on a crisp October night on the street in front of the house my brother and I were renting. A drunk driver couldn’t quite make the bend and instead slammed into the side of my car, pushing it up onto the curb and bending the frame. On the positive note, we did get to meet the transvestite who had been renting the place across the street. He came running out in a bathrobe and slippers, looking quite disheveled and without his wig. He was glad that no one had been hurt because he “didn’t want to have to give anyone mouth to mouth.”

7. The Oaks theater in Oakmont, PA. It’s one of the few art house theaters left in the Pittsburgh area.

2. My worst car was a 78 Buick LeSabre, bought in 1986. It was cheap, and the body was in very good condition, but it was one problem after another (I won’t go into listing it all). The last of which was that it got that I couldn’t turn the heat off, and the A/C didn’t work. When I tried to give it away, two charities said “No thank you!”

p.s. The 1978 LeSabre’s were known to catch fire(in engine compartment).

-note to Jenny: when those automatic seatbelts go bad, they are expensive to fix, and the law might say they have to work.

3. I know you’re not talking about bought VHS tapes, but the cartoon Bunnicula tape I have tops all the recorded-off-tv things I have. I don’t think my family was much into home videos, because I don’t think we have any.

5. Unfortunately for me, all the authors I would be anxious about are dead.

7. The only place in town that I would have wanted to save went out of business before I was born. There was a theatre here called The Vogue that used to play midnight screenings of things and such. They preserved the sign (but not the marquee or the ticket booth) but it’s some kind of upscale clothing store now.

3. I used to tape every episode of Buffy, Angel, Felicity, and Dawson’s Creek off the WB when they were on (when I was in high school). Sometimes I would bring them in to school the next day and my friends and I would watch them in the TV room at lunchtime (especially if one or the other of us had missed it), but mostly they just took up room for no reason. This was before DVDs, so I guess I thought I was preserving them for posterity or something.

6. I can’t believe people remember the first movie they saw in a theater. I remember going to movies when I was little, but anything before I was about 5 kind of runs together.

7. I have no idea how these places are doing business-wise, but I’ll use any opportunity I can to plug Rice & Co., which is an Asian fusion restaurant, and Ethos Vegan Kitchen which, as the name implies, is a vegan restaurant. Both are in Orlando and are sooo good.

I agree with Pink Coat. Why are there personal ads on floss? They really don’t fit with the rest of the site.

3) Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. I still get chills when a pile of white pixels that looks like Kent Hrbek turns the 3-2-3 double play. “Out there… OUT THERE!”

4) This uber-skeevy nightclub called 1120 in Birmingham. It’s on all the time, and it’s powerful enough to reach the Starbucks a block away.

No car I owned could be classified as crappy in my opinion. They all got me from one point to another which is all I could ever want from them.

Wireless: The Barnsider in Sugarloaf, NY