Don Warrick – Ersatz Inventor, Wordsmythe of the Trifling Blog
This, my children is the 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II. Sometimes, I fail to remember that there is not a physical object in the material world that you cant find a picture of on the net. For some reason, I was thinking about this very car this morning and a few keystrokes later …
Only 444 of these Detroit sculptures were made the year I was born. What a gorgeous piece of steel. Wow.
There are a few visual cues that always return the same response from me. For instance when ever I see anything on aged brown parchment, with backwards writing and some cryptic invention or mechanism of war; the salivary glands are activated. I call my theory the modified unification theory of reincarnation. It states briefly that Leonardo of Vinci, rather than being reincarnated as a whole human being, has been re-incarnated in teeny tiny bits. The few cells of Leonardo that are currently taking up residence in my DNA are activated whenever they see a Leonardo-esque image. And yes, I did recently come across such an image…the reason for the rant.