The First Museum of Carload comment spam

Posted on Nov 28, 2013 by mrdrivein

Sure, this is off topic, but did you know that some awful people try to add comments to blogs just so they’ll have more links to their stupid web sites? I’m talking sites that sell fake versions of Nike shoes, Oakley sunglasses, Celine luggage, and other stuff. The spammers include the URL of one of these sites in each comment, and figure that if enough respectable blogs carry enough of those links, then Google will list their site high on the results page when someone is desperate enough to search for fake Oakleys or whatever.

Since they’re being sprayed at blogs of every topic, these comments are written to be vaguely complimentary to any post; presumably some bloggers will be so touched by the happy thoughts that they’ll allow them to pass through. These comments also don’t make much sense. So without further ado, here are some curated selections of comment spam that Carload has accumulated this year, copied and pasted to look exactly as the spammers sent them.

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And that concludes our first and hopefully only visit to the museum of Carload spam. If you want to see more, please leave a comment. If you want to see a lot more, leave a spam comment.

UDITOA holds fall meeting at Circle Drive-In

Posted on Nov 13, 2013 by mrdrivein

photo by RetroRoadmap.com, used by permission

Cell phones, a satellite dish, a couch, a car seat, a leopard-print bra, and an orthodontic retainer with headgear. That’s a list of some of the stuff that drive-in theater owners have found lying around after their shows were over. Several of those owners were swapping stories about that debris and much more during the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association‘s annual fall gathering, held this year at the Circle Drive-In (Dickson City PA).

The Scranton Times-Tribune posted a very informative story to let us know about the UDITOA’s get-together. According to the Times-Tribune, about 60 owners attended. They heard from Dave Castelli, the Circle’s manager, about how the advantages that drive-ins have over indoor theaters. At the drive-in, small kids have room to walk around and young adults have the freedom to text in the privacy of their cars.

Another topic of discussion was the economics of drive-ins, many still facing the cost of converting to digital projection or the worry of not knowing when Hollywood studios will stop providing film. Two owners talked about their side jobs (factory worker, CPA) that they need.

There are more details in the article, which would have benefitted from a few photos. In any case, you know you need to go read it!

Austin homeless village to include “drive-in” theater

Posted on Nov 12, 2013 by mrdrivein

This is another installment in our occasional series, Things That are Not Drive-Ins. There are so many faux “drive-ins” that pop up every year that it requires something special to make it to a Carload post. The Community First village proposed for Austin TX is that kind of special project.

Mobile Loaves & Fishes has spent over a decade serving Austin’s chronically homeless, finding inexpensive housing and work to get some of them off the streets. Now MLF has announced an ambitious project to build an entire gated community of otherwise homeless residents, as described by KVUE, Austin’s news leader.

KVUE said that Community First would include a drive-in theater. That caused the same double-take I get when I hear requests to donate furniture for the homeless: If some poor soul doesn’t have a roof over his head, where’s he going to put that furniture, and if he’s got a car, why would he drive to a movie? As it turns out, this time KVUE was not completely accurate, probably for the first time in its history. The Community First blueprints clearly show an “outdoor theater,” albeit with spaces for about a dozen cars in a nearby parking lot.

Although the idea of a gated community with a private drive-in is appealing, I have to say that this will not be a true drive-in theater. I do wish its organizers all the best for using private funds to give the homeless a path back to productive society.