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Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 10:01PM 
Now that I am using my iPhone, I have the ability to get photos at the spur of the moment, like this one which was snapped in traffic the other day.
You know I am not a big fan of roadside memorials (or pinto bean can memorials!). Here is another version that I am sure you have seen cropping up around town...this is what I refer to as the "carmemorial."
I have a few questions about carmemorial protocol? is it like a regular memorial and do you "leave it up" for the remainder of eternity or do you eventually scrape it off? If you sell the car, does the next car owner have to leave the memorial on the window?
Also, if I die and there are any of you that commit to a carmemorial...please don't put me on an Oldsmobuick or a Pinto. I would prefer to be on a VW Bus, but not just a plastic decal on the back window. I'd like the whole side of the bus committed to a memorial (hand-painted...in the style of hippie haight-ashbury concert posters). Now that would be a memorial!
Quietly making noise,
Fletch
Reader Comments (4)
Other memorials appear on t-shirts and as tattoos on various body parts. Maybe with some research on my part and financial backing on your part we could start a bobble-head memorial business. You could have a bobble-head of your deceased loved one ridng on the dash board of your car, bobbing its head to the beat of your stereos sub-woofer. Additional accessories would include a halo and harp or devil horns and pitch fork or for the secular crowd a shroud and tulip. I'm seeing possibilities here.
Wow, Steve, I'm impressed by your creative talent. Given the number of plastic trinkity/stuffed animal memorials I see around town, I'm thinking our society is definitely ready for this.
oops... that above comment was not by Fletch. It was by his little Mac-less wifey who keeps thinking she's on her own computer instead of hijacking his...
Someday my Mac will return.
~Kenj
EXACTLY! I've often wondered the SAME thing!
Who wants to be the one to scrape off the memorial?
I felt guilty when I took my Bush/Cheney sticker off my car. ;-)