Greetings.
I've started a couple of other blogs that keep me busy, so I'm not posting here as much; they're
Two Guys On The Road With Antiques
and
Two Guys On The Road With Books, co-written with my friend Perry.
I'm doing a lot of traveling in support of them, the whole "On The Road" part, so there's usually lots of pictures too.
I do check my Friends List every day.

Tina is my party planner...

Someone didn't google their business name before setting up shop!

So en route from Williamsburg tonight, we're driving south on route 64 to Norfolk VA, and I decide to turn on the radio. We listen to a lot of oldies because of both familiarity and kitsch factor (this afternoon we heard Speak Softly Love and Love is Blue. Speak Softly Love is best know by it's instrumental version as the theme from the Godfather.)
740am out of Williamsburg VA is one of our regulars.
Well, tonight it was 740am, but not what I was expecting. The first song I heard was Bye Bye Black Bird, done by a male singer, fifties style. Then something that sounded familiar, the singer anyway, not the song. Then the announcer came on. He was a writer as well and he was going to be at Chapters by the 401... soon.
My brain twitched when he said Chapters and actually sparked when he said the 401.
We were listening to a station from Toronto!
Seriously.
ZoomerRadio.ca is the site, and you can listen to it over the net if you like.
One of the station's ident slogans was "Across the Provence, across the border," though I don't think they realized just HOW far across the border.
Turns out, 660 miles.
The familiar singer, it turns out, was Gord Lightfoot. Of course it was.
The also played Que Sera Sera by Doris Day. Turns out I know all they lyrics.
Of course I do. It's from a Hitchcock movie.
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Last week we'd listened to WCBS for a little while on the same drive Sunday... I wonder what's up.
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This was a pain to write- my browser kept crashing because of the radio station's website and I had planned on embedding a map from Hampton to Toronto and that kept screwing up the post.
I don't think I've ever had such an annoying time doing a post.

Dream:
There's a mountain and two small cars, like VW Bugs are driving into it, there's also dozens of Semis driving in and out.  Its like Norad or something.  So the small cars are sent in together, driving to the center of the mountain.
The tunnels are lit overly flourescent, washing out color.
Occasionally the lights go out and the cars are attacked.
Also they have to get out of the way of the semis, so every so often they have to park in little parking areas off the road so these huge things can roar past them.
Monsters keep attacking in the dark, til only one car works.  The people from the damaged car are walking next to the working car, which now has to move sloooooow for the pedestrians.
It turns out the monsters are eels.  Giant land eels.  (Whatever.  It was in a dream.)

This was a movie.  Then there was an interview with the writer and director, two women.
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Dunno where this one came from.  A Movie within a dream.  Sure. 
Please note the time.  I'm going back to bed.

After the third or fourth bloody carcass along side the road, it turns into an amusingly grim counting game.

Tonight on Top Chef:
Padma and Nigella Lawson, breakfast in bed.
Yeah... there's a whole new world of Slash fiction just waiting to happen.

I was working on a writing project that involved a familiarity with seventies horror and one title kept popping up: Thomas Tryon's The Other.
I lucked upon a copy at a thrift store and was blown away. Then I picked up his novella collection Crowned Heads, about Hollywood royalty and stayed up til 2:30 reading the first novella Fedora, later turned into a Billy Wilder movie.
Today at the Mathews Public Library Friends of the Library Book sale in Mathews VA, I picked up two more of his books, Lady and The Night of the Moonbow, so that was a treat.
It's sort of sad how all Tyron's books, best sellers in their day, have gone out of print- The Other was just brought back by a small press after being out of print for twenty years. Of course, Tryon's been passed away for over eighteen years, and publishing is so very flavor of the week.
By the way, Tryon was a Golden Globe award winning actor who retired from the motion picture industry and tried his hand a writing. Looks like he did pretty good.

cross posted from Two Guys on the Road with Books.

Has it REALLY been ten years since the Brendon Fraser version of The Mummy came out?

Tommy Hilfiger is like Garanimals for adults.

In Morgantown WV. Our hotel is at the top of a mountain.
The driveway up had to have been a 20 degree angle.