Lara Zielin

FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: My friend Heather and I recently re-watched the trailer for the movie Superstar. I was laughing even before it started. I love this movie, but I especially love the lunchroom dance scene to C&C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now.” Only thing is, that scene isn’t on YouTube. Bummer. But the trailer is.

I’m already thinking about next Tuesday. Why? Because I have a chat scheduled with my awesome agent and we’re going to talk about getting my third book rolling along like an 18-wheeler. Breaker, breaker — this is Big Lars, I see a contract on the horizon, over.

Okay, maybe I’m getting a little ahead of myself. But I AM really excited to talk to my agent, revise my proposal, and hopefully get it in front of some folks soon. My third book, for the record, involves a lot of bad weather in Tornado Alley. Exciting!

Please keep your fingers crossed for me!

In 2004, I went on a tornado chase with Storm Chasing Adventure Tours. Whilst waiting for one of the many storms we tracked to produce something worth filming, chasing, or running from, we stopped at a tres chic truck stop and there we encountered what we all know now as the DOW (Doppler on Wheels) and TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle).

But back then? Well, see for yourself.

So, the TIV was called something having to do with a woman’s vajayjay and a cleaning implement. Bush + rag = still breaking down all the time. Dude, look at Sean Casey crawling out from underneath the thing just like when the axle broke during season 2 of Stormchasers. Oh, and pretty much every other episode from every other season.

And look at Scout (it’s on the left, sorry these photos aren’t the best). It’s not even called Scout, though. It’s called ROTATE. I bet that’s an acronym for something (Risk Of Transmission Atrophy Totally Ever-present?) but I’m glad they changed it to Scout for the show. Also I loved the Scout drivers in season 2. And they just came back on the most recent season 3 episode. Except the Scout? Is now a fancy yellow jeep. Oh, and Joel is with them, but that’s a whole different blog post.

It’s sad to me that the TIV and DOW are totally fighting (Jonas Josh Wurman went and got hisself some corporate sponsors) and that they’re not chasing together anymore. Because look at how close they were in 2004. Side by side, bosom buddies. Buffy and Hildegard.

Can’t we all just get along?  Well, okay, first thing’s first. Can’t we all just work properly?

Really, though. We’re glad you changed the name of your tornado tank, Sean. Because Bushrag (okay, really? Bushrag? I’m just saying) just doesn’t work for the TIV. For you, maybe. But not for the TIV.

Oops, excuse me, there’s a red shoe going by. I think I want to watch watch it glide past and admire the stormchasers inside of it. Buh-bye now.