Driving, driving driving. Raining hard

January 27, 2002

Driving, driving driving. Raining hard in LA. Hiked up Bronson canyon with the band guys. Wanted to show them the caves. The cave up there is the one they used for the scenes where the Batmobile races in and out of the Batcave. I mean the Adam West REAL Batmobile. The TV Batmobile. Once I went to the auto show in Vancouver and Burt Ward was appearing with the very same machine. He was now into his 30's. There he was chubby in his old and illfitting Robin suit walking down a lonely hallway at the PNE Forum having a smoke (in full dress). I guess its just like the modern Hollywood Boulevard I know now. The vital part of town has moved elsewhere and monster truck tourists hang outside the crummy souvenir shops. Sometimes I feel like I'm in Burt Ward's sad moment but most of the time I don't see things that way. Much later I saw that same Batmobile on a trailer at the Blaine WA border crossing and asked the guy driving the transport truck if I could sit in it. He let me. All the dials and rocket launcher switches were covered in a chipped and faded dayglo paint and the whole thing had become pretty shabby. Gaffer tape covered the rips in the seat and there were mismatched knobs and switches from Radio Shack. Why did I still get excited? Nothing can beat the eight year old out of me.

CN