I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV.

Well, we always have the hope of a black hole, or alien invasion.

In news of cabin fever while I restlessly await for may knee to be cool again, and also for the rain to stop, I did a little bit of body work to one of my little trucks. 

What once looked like this;

Now looks like this;

"How did you do the weathering?" a few DMs have read.

Truth be told, I watched a couple of tutorial videos, and ignored everything I learned because I didn't have some of the materials.

But like, this guy's technique?

That shit is next level.

Basically, because the truck started as brown, I just painted it red, then primed it, then painted it light blue, until the nozzle got clogged part way through, so I painted it white. Then I wet sanded it until I got tired of doing that, then I hit it with some 200 grit sandpaper or whatever scrap I had sitting on the corner of my desk until it looked about right.

I thought maybe a couple dents would be cool, so I took a lighter, heated up the plastic from the inside, and then pressed a piece of gravel into the soft spot. I kinda overdid the one on the driver's side door, so I patched it from the back with some Shoe Goo, let that dry, masked it, primed it, and painted it again. The narrative I conjured up in my head is that the driver did the bodywork himself, and then hamfisted it back to correct again best he could.

Which now that I type it out is exactly what happened.

I'll likely rough that little spot up a bit more with a finer grit bit of sandpaper, but I'm real happy with the way it looks currently, and feel inspired to do it to more of my trucks. 

If it strikes your fancy, I sure do encourage folks to get weird with their own little trucks. Anybody can get a stock truck, but not everybody can intentionally make it look shitty.

Or you can do like my pal did, and paint yours to look like your real-sized truck;

And if you think for one second that I wasn't absolutely shattered with envy when she first pulled up in this, you've got another thing coming.

Secondly, she said she's gonna pull the roll bar out of her little truck, and then install one in her big truck, because she's insane like that.

Having said all of that, and circling around to the opening images of today's post, Rick Springfield has a 43 date tour (I think. I lost count) that starts on March 19th in Macon, Georgia.

He will be traveling nowhere near the Pacific Northwest, but should I be near one of his dates through the spring and summer, I will likely be making my way to him;

Welp, having covered two of my favorite topics, I would ordinarily close out with an announcement for the 167th episode of Revolting, but something went wonky with my recording, about which I was notified at 7:00 yesterday morning.

Due to the fact that I still had a bloody mary and breakfast to tend to, there wasn't much I could do about it, so we'll try and get it re-recorded this week.

Keep checking The Cycling Independent or wherever you get your jibber jabber, and as always, thank you for your time and consideration on the matter.

We're working overtime e so you don't have to.

Instead in closing, I'll make mention that Swami John Reis just opened a order window and promptly sold out of his forthcoming Record 'Time To Let You Down'.

The record's description is as follows;

"Celebrating 55 years in the music business! Swami John Reis is back with his second LP in 8 months. “Time To Let You Down” is a savage blast of junk shoppe punk that kicks all within earshot in the ding ding. This 11 track LP is chock full of fist pumpers, head bumpers, stinky dumpers, meaty thumpers and toe stumpers.  

The undeniable sonic girth barges at will into lathered ear tubes allowing these barbaric anthems to echo in your hollow domes. Feel the whip crack break skin on the acne scarred backs of our cultural oppressors. 

The sound is tough. The songs are a bitch."

Welp... I'm sold.

Because it sold out so quickly, I'd guess they'd likely do a second pressing, but who can say anything about anything anymore?

One thing I can say, is that unless we're flattened by another pandemic, he's doing a supporting tour starting in April;

 

As per my non-medical degree compels me to instruct- Buy two tickets, and call me in the morning.