Bumblebee, a review:

Bumblebee is a new and well-critiqued movie, but given that it’s part of a commercially successful but critically panned string of movies, it’s best that I convince you that there’s more than meets the eye with this one. If I like it (and I did), I’m sure you all will love it!

Warning: spoilers ahead!

Not my favorite poster, but it’ll do.

After retreating from a losing battle in home planet Cybertron, Autobot B-127 (briefly voiced by Dylan O’Brien) is tasked by leader Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) with secretly escaping to planet Earth and set up a base so that the Autobot minority can regroup. Crash-landing in a military exercise led by Jack Burns (John Cena), B-127 is immediately treated as hostile. Things get worse when Decepticon Blitzwing appears bombs ablazin’, heavily injuring B-127 and ripping out his voice box. B-127 uses Blitzwing’s own firepower against him, but the damage is such that he suffers memory loss and emergency shutdown, but not before scanning a vehicle to transform into…

Suicide Doors (And the 2019 Lincoln Continental 80th Anniversary Coach Door Edition)

It’s official!  A total of 80 (eighty) 2019 Lincoln Continentals will have rear suicide doors!  It may be a grand new design, or a last-ditch attempt for Lincoln to be unique.  In any event, I’ll be one of the first to check them out when they hit the showrooms, or hopefully before then at an auto show!

Corvette Summer Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Summer has come and gone. But we shouldn’t forget that Corvette Summer is celebrating its 40^th Anniversary this year. In its honor, we bring out this post, originally published on June 22, 2016. It’s been edited in the slightest.

An irrational fear that I have is that my future daughter (given the family’s track record, it’s gonna be a girl) will inherit her old man’s taste in vintage goodness. The thing is, vintage goodness for her will be stuff from the 2000s and 2010s, most of which I’ve cast aside, preferring to follow things from the latter part of the 20^th century. It will be my duty to guide her through the good (Web 2.0, uhh… More Cowbell?), the bad (Web 2.0, reggaeton, Bay-formers, scripted reality TV, etc.) and the ugly (Web 2.0, famous-because-famous “celebrities”, Crocs, Venetian shade sunglasses, Lady Gaga’s influence in wardrobe). Yes, I’ll try to see if she gets interested in some of the things her old man likes.