Pee-wee may be heading back to his Playhouse. But for now, he's happy to be Paul Reubens: "But it's looking more as if Reubens will be returning to the land of anthropomorphic furniture and the Word of the Day, executing an idea that he presented to Paramount years before "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" made the character a pop culture star in 1985. Reubens is hoping to get all the original "Pee-wee's Playhouse" actors together -- with the exception of his good friend Phil Hartman, who died in 1998 -- for a new movie."

Ordered harnesses for the Exige today...

If these people are serious, I love them: http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/en.html.

Meme time:

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Looks like I never posted a link to the pics from Laguna Seca last November:

So I took the GTi to Laguna Seca last Monday.

From my Elisetalk post:

• I'd been wanting to take the GTi out to a track day since I bought it and I finally got around to it last Monday at Laguna Seca with Trackmasters. The car is stock and I was on my street tires.
  
  While the Lotus is of course more fun at the track, the GTi did really well. If I have complaints, it's the the brake pedal has a soft, over-assisted feel with poor initial bite and that the car is easy to upset under hard braking. I had an "OMG where are my brakes??" moment on the first green lap of our first session while braking into turn five and wound up into the ABS with the rear end wobbling around. I also had trouble for most of the day keeping the car stable while slowing down for the corkscrew. On the other hand, I was able to get the off-camber stuff through turn nine to feel comfortable, which I wasn't able to do in the Lotus on my first trip to Seca a few months ago.
  
  While I have some complaints about the DSG on the street, it was just fantastic on the track. One of the complaints that I have is that the car automatically upshifts when you hit redline, so a few times I wound up exiting turn eleven in 3rd rather than 2nd but the transmission is so smooth that I felt comfortable making downshifts anywhere on track, including mid-turn. Since I was driving flat out, there were no problems with turbo lag or accidentally tripping the kickdown switch, both of which still vex me during every day use.

Pictures:

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RAW Data: RAW Essence: "Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11."

We'll miss you Bob! All hail Eris and keep the lasagna flying!!

More pictures...

Our two Chinese Crested, Fizzy and Nova:



Nova is a rescue dog that we got to keep Fizzy company. We've had him for only three days and he's already fitting in like he's always been here.

And some hateful phone pictures from NYE 2007 in Las Vegas:

OMG. Someone else knows about BATTERIE:ACID.