*"Zero-G Drive" by my talented hot rodding pal @KeithWeesner, background artist for Batman the animated series and charter member of the Burbank Choppers. You can find more of his Noir Sci Fi Hot Rods & Space Vixens here (not 100% safe for work).
Before diving into today's batch, and speaking of the fine arts, I am utterly tickled to learn that a previous car ID here has resulted in a published poem: "Mechanic in a Photograph Taken in 1940" by Tim DeJong.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the regular Saturday AM episode of #DavesCarIDService, which was previously scheduled to be canceled today, has now been uncanceled for a special Extra Edition
Quick note: I am slowly winnowing through my car ID files in hopes of assembling a book, and I am sensitive to potential copyright issues. I'm crossing my fingers that you are OK with my use of your family album or wilderness/junkyard pics in this manner.
That said, in addition to the regular car ID request guidelines below, I ask that you only share photos that belong to you, or at least notify me that "please do not reprint" or "this is not my picture."
Today: "wow, the polls were pretty far off, maybe we should have taken them with a grain of salt."
Next Tuesday: "Here's Nate Entrails with a deep dive analysis of the latest tracking numbers from the NBS-Squippippinac Approve-O-Meter"
I guess it's time for my quadrennial rant on sampling statistics.
Sampling statistics have a long and proud history in all kinds of applications, from medical studies to manufacturing to agriculture, and yes, for a while, in politics.
Also golden times for people in the Studio Spaceship Command Jumbotron Telestrator biz
I kinda miss the days when it was one guy behind a steelcase office desk in a plaid suit with a big condenser microphone and a paper flip chart, and they told you who won before 10 pm
More astonishing facts for the New York Times' highly sophisticated and informed readership
I kinda hope Trump wins the popular vote in a landslide and Biden wins the Electoral vote, just to watch the history-erasing Year Zero rhetorical chaos