Every day a huge beetle flies into my window screen.

More pictures from Mammoth last week, and there will probably be more because I'm going again next week.

good girls and lots of cheese

Lately I've been overdosing on late 50s/early 60s summer romance at the beach type movies with Gidget, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, and A Summer Place. They're all very cringeworthy but cute. Well, A Summer Place isn't so cute but more dramatic. If you can get past all the camp, it's really interesting to see how much America has changed since then in terms of sexuality, and how some countries haven't changed at all. I still haven't watched Gidget Goes to Rome, but I really don't think it could be any better than the original or any cheesier than the second. I also don't know why they recast Gidget twice, I think Sandra Dee is perfect in the first one.


The song in this video is from the movie, but somehow they found a way to redo it and make it even cheesier. Ack.

at the mountains