Check out my new car links on the left side. My current car - a 2000 VW Golf in evergreen; and my dream cars, the BMW Mini (I want a Mini Love car), and a Volvo C70. I fell in love with the Volvo C70 from watching the movie "The Saint" with Val Kilmer.

I love my VW Golf. It's fast, I beat a Toyota 4Runner up the Pacifica hill on the test drive; it's small at 172 inches in length, 6 inches smaller than your average car, although still too big for many SF parking spots; 8 speakers and 6-cd changer; sunroof and automatic windows; and a great car for a small price.

I so love hatchbacks, and totally adore the windshield wiper on the back window. How can you drive at 70 mph and hydroplane on 280, 101 or the Bay Bridge in the pouring rain without it? I don't think I could ever drive a car without that back windshield wiper. The 93 Saab is another choice hatchback car, although I've never driven one. My friends say the Saab handles well, but is it fast? I think BMW used to make a hatchback, but I so love the Mini car.

Another earthquake in California, but I didn't feel it. The radio news is reporting a 4.7 earthquake in Hollister. I hate earthquakes!

Am I a football fan or what? "Any Given Sunday" is one of my favourite movies. Oliver Stone's intensity on the game of football. It's the details in the movie that are so fun. The announcers checking out the girls with the binocs, how jocks even third string f-ugly mothers can get girls, the jawing of the defensive and offensive lines, the drugs, the money, owners, plus an understated but funny performance by James Woods. It's brilliant. Simply brilliant!

A fun link, The Top Twenty Cryptozoology Stories of 2002. Cryptozoology is "literally translated as 'the study of hidden life'" or the study of the evidence for hidden animals with input of local, native, explorer, and traveler traditions, sightings, tales, legends and folklore of the as-yet unverified animals. It's got stories like the Mothman in West Virginia, the Loch Ness Monster and of course Big Foot.