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October 25th, 2006

I kind of thought it might, but since the camo Porsche is getting blogged about already I thought I should get around to posting better pictures... You know, when I got up this morning, I never imagined how many women would be leaving my presence with a big smile on their faces. I was very nervous before going through with it, because this sort of thing is sort of a curse word shoot as to whether it's a magnet or a repellant. Anyway, judging by the reactions so far, the bias is strongly in the "magnet" corner.

Anyway... I'm still loving the reaction the car has been getting. Pretty much everyone slows down next to it to check it out, and then turns around for a second look. A lot of compliments have been shouted from cars and passers-by, which is cool... I stopped and visited Blair on the way back from the doctor's, and as I was walking back to the car I saw a guy walk past, laugh and smile, turn around, laugh and smile some more, and keep going. When he saw it was my car he walked up,

Guy: "I have to ask... Why did you paint your Porsche camo?"

Me: "I thought it would be funny; I wanted something that would make kids smile and laugh."

Guy: "Well, you made me smile, thanks!"

So that was nice and friendly. I love those mini-encounters.

I actually am stealing that line of thinking a little bit from Steve-O and The Lizardman — we chatted about it when we met in Cambridge:

The Lizardman: "Tell me about your tattoos, or, as you put it, your 'dumb tattoos'. What's the main motivation behind them?"

Steve-O: "A lot of people get tattoos for what the tattoo means to them, but I tend to get tattoos for what the tattoo's going to mean to everybody else. All my tattoos are supposed to make people giggle."

The Lizardman: "You've reversed the perspective... instead of it's for me, it's for the world — I really like that just by walking down on the street I turn everybody's day surreal. They may be driving to work and all of a sudden, 'What the **** was that?' It breaks them out of that mindset where they go to work, eat, sleep, die."

Steve-O: "Yeah, some people just hate their day or they're having a ******-ass day, and they watch half an hour of me doing dumb **** and after that first half hour they didn't have their ****** day, and life's not a problem any more..."







What in life is more noble than making others laugh?

On the other hand, I stopped in at Gentry Lane, a Lotus and exotic/luxury car dealer around the corner from me, and the guy there (I think the owner but I'm not sure) seemed extremely unthrilled about the paintjob, commenting with a dour expression on how strange it was, and asking what year of Porsche I'd done it to, ha... I think he was deeply disturbed (or at least thought I was the biggest idiot that had come into his store for a while).

Meh, some people want to smile, some people worry about presenting a pedigree. I'd rather smile. The bad news is that life isn't always fun, but the good news is that life is always funny.