Today I announced the start of my month daily driving my Pontiac Aztek. In addition to this, I will be living in the car for a week. This was all part of my deal with you, readers who kindly became members of this humble website. Or at least, that’s what I thought the deal was; some commenters have me worried about what I agreed upon…
First, before I get into the Pontiac Aztek-related comments, I’d like to highlight a comment that seems to be making some kind of pop culture reference that — you guessed it — I don’t get. It comes to us from Hoonicus, who said this in the comments of Jason’s article “This New Study Is Maddening Because We All Know This: People Don’t Pay Attention When Using Autopilot Or Other Driver Assistance Systems”:
You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. And you may ask yourself; how do I work this?
Where does that highway go to?
Am I right, am I wrong?
My God, what have I done?I will not even Once in a Lifetime buy into this crap.
… yeah, I got nothing.
Anyway, back to the Aztek. As I mentioned before, I recall agreeing to a month of DD’ing the thing and a week of living in it, but reader Canopysaurus has me wondering:
Are you using the Gregorian calendar or the Aztec calendar to determine when your sentence is up? Makes a difference.
Clever! Mortalcombatant has decided to allow me to change the arrangement:
As a representative of the members I can agree to change the rules. You can DD it for a week but you’ll have to live in for a month.
That comment has sixteen likes after only a bit of time, so I’m concerned that I might be peer pressured into doing that…
Have a great rest of your evening, everyone!
So where will you be camping out during your Aztec week? Campground? The Galpin lot? With the tent, you can’t quite be a stealth urban camper a la #vanlife. (Not like there are no tent dwellers in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica.)
Lets up the ante- shave a week off the DDing if you spend 3 days not losing physical contact with the aztek for any reason whatsoever.
…and Jason Torchinsky with you with the same constraint.
David, I have to commend you on your honesty of the lack of pop culture references.
Do you listen to NPR all day? If you do, I can get why you’re never heard the song 🙂
This is the day we realized that David Tracy was just a young whippersnapper who spent the 90’s in Germany listening to David Hasselhoff.
There’s no way you’ve reached your age living largely in the US and haven’t heard the once in a lifetime song. It’s on the radio, in stores or restaurants, and on TV, very very frequently.
It’s a huge hit by the Talking Heads, a band helmed by David Byrne, the most annoying musician who ever lived.
Have you listened to any of Roger Waters’ comments recently?
I’ve also heard that John Philip Sousa was a bit of a douche.
I wonder if his brain just doesn’t pay attention to certain things? Or doesn’t retain the information? Because I agree with you. Some things are inescapable.
I’m like this with certain popular things, movies in particular. I’ve never seen any of the Harry Potter, Avengers,Spider Man (all the comic book movies, really) and I’ve only seen the three original Star Wars films. References to those always need to be explained to me.
meanwhile none of my friends know who Nandor deLaurentiis is.
needs an LS4 swap 😉
David, on day 28 of living in the Aztec;
“Well, this ain’t no disco, no CBGB’s.”
I got some groceries, some peanut butter
To last a couple of days
He strikes me as a pretty ordinary guy. So we need to keep an eye on him, lest he be burnin’ down the house. Though at least he can go live in the Aztek on a road to nowhere.
Maybe he’ll be making flippy floppy by then.
Home, is where I want to be…
I am continually amazed by how many cultural baselines have evaded you David. But it’s part of your charm 🙂
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
David’s sleeping on the interstate getting wild wild life.
Off to add another like to Mortalcombatant’s comment. (DD for a week) But this is just because I think it’s a funny idea. (And live in for a month) In no way, shape, or form do I endorse peer pressure or any likeness thereof.
Nope, definitely no peer pressure from me. Not at all.
Funny, because the pop-up videos on this site show a talking head named, you guessed it, David Tracy.
Or, “Talking Over David’s Heads.”
Take your pick, COTD deciders.
Or:
Coincidentally, the same day David’s alleged ‘girlfriend’ moved back to Canada.
She’s from Canada? I hope she’s not Alberta from Alberta.
This sounds like that South Park episode where Butters has a Canadian girlfriend. Is David Butters?
Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.
Not true. She’s Yonnie Yonson from Wisconsin.
Everyone should have the opportunity to see this video at least once in a … y’know I’m not going to say it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCY0aeUx-Ns
Talking Heads!- Once in a Lifetime!
As for your Aztek duties, may I interest you in Bosco’s Collapsible Driver?
A fantastic song at that. I got as far as “You may find yourself” and had the chorus playing in my head.
To be fair to David – something that, as he well knows, I do not like to be – “Once in a Lifetime” was released about a decade before he was born.
Wait, is this site being run by small children?
Quick subtraction in head…
Oh right, I’m old.
I remember seeing them play at CBGB when they were opening for the Ramones.
1976 I think.
See the funny thing about David is that he’s actually not THAT young – though I don’t remember his age – and I’m pretty sure he’s never been in a cult but has somehow still avoided all popular culture.