Javalicious Jeffrey

I gotta give a shout out to Jeffrey, the man who coined the phrase javalicious. He's just an all-round international guy living in Berlin or on a yacht somewhere in the Caribbean with his lovely wife. He's a genius when it comes to the spoken word. He can pull your leg in at least five languages -- English, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, German, whatever. The guy can talk a dog off a meat truck. Anyway, at least one of the songs on Javalicious -- The SunShine Song and others -- were written with him around. He just sent me this cool picture of a car to remind me of my weird history with motorized vehicles. As a 20-year-old, I shunned them, then I started writing about them and then I even cracked one up while I was trying to swat a mosquito. For a while, I was going through cars like razor blades and have owned about 10 of them over the years -- Pontiac Catalina, Renault Alliance, Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, Toyota Pickup, Honda Accord, two Volvo wagons, a Toyota Starlet and now a Siena Minivan. I wish I could have owned this one that Jeffrey sent me. I love retro cars as much as retro diners.

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