Autobahn

Two unfortunate vanity plates that I spied to-day: 666SWAG & GODRULS, which I've read as "God rules," because I can't make any sense of "Godrul's" or "Go Druls." "666SWAG"? The number of the Beast & stolen goods? (Our friends at Merriam-Webster define "swag" as "stolen goods: Loot.") So, the car is stolen property received from Old Scratch? Or stolen from the Devil? As for GODRULS, while it is certainly true that "He rules the world," in the memorable phrase from "Joy to the World," it would be in quite poor taste is the vanity plate's owner intended it as something as crass as a Homecoming boast that "Seniors rule!" As I said, unfortunate.

Also, lately I've been entertaining the idea of equipping the Lumi, the Distaff Son of the Mousemobile with a vanity plate. What vanity plate? MAUSMBL, a serviceable rendering of "Mousemobile" (or at least "Maus-mobile").

The Rebel Black D.O.T. Song of the Day
King Apparatus, "Death Car on the Freeway" from King Apparatus (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: I can't believe it took a week before the muse whispered "The Rebel Black D.O.T. Song of the Day" in my mind's ear. I mooted names for this post-auto show series of motorcar-themed songs like "The Rebel Black Dot Car Song of the Day" & "The Rebel Black Dot Automotive Song of the Day," but ultimately decided in favor of the standard R.B.D.S.O.T.D. Then "The R.B.D.O.T.S.O.T.D." struck my brain like a bolt from the clear blue sky, purposeful & perfect. I'm going to retroactively relabel all the pre-D.O.T. songs, just as the N.F.L. retroactively renamed the first two Super Bowls as Super Bowl I & Super Bowl II, even though the first named "Super Bowl" was Super Bowl III.