Here’s a fun Christmas gift: Sarah Lyon’s 2009 Female Mechanics Calendar.
A nice turn on all those pinups that cliché says hang over the greasy workbenches of male mechanics.
A full-color 14 month wall calendar featuring women mechanics and their stories of how they entered into the non-traditional labor field of mechanics.
This unique and dynamic calendar includes automobile, motorcycle, hot rod, hybrid, marine, jet aircraft, bicycle, and race car mechanics. The project challenges stereotypes of the typical tool-girl, pin-up calendar by showing real women mechanics working in their shop environments
I can see this hanging over the desk of Helen, the Nascar fan.
Sarah is having a release party tonight for the calendar at The Green Building, 732 East Market Street, in Louisville from 5pm to 9pm. The party is free and there will be music by DJ Kim Sorise, snacks and libations, a slide projection of photos taken during Sarah’s journey, plus a mechanic from the calendar will be there to sign autographs!
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You might also be interested in giving a copy of Marge Fulton’s All Roads Lead to Hazard. This short story collection has recently been included in Great Britain’s Good Books Guide.
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Update: Or, okay, if you’ve got 90 bucks lying around and you’ve already bought your week’s groceries, you can go for this Barbie Black Label Collection Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Barbie Doll.
H/t to Steven Hart, who asks the relevant questions.
Maybe they’ll also issue a corpulent Ken as Alfred Hitchcock doll who will corner Tippi Barbie and . . . well, maybe we don’t want to go there. But why not Barbie as Kim Novak in Vertigo, or Barbie as Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief? How about a Barbie as Eva Marie Saint doll complete with a North by Northwest Mount Rushmore display and a train tunnel where Barbie and Ken can . . . okay, we really don’t want to go there.
I can’t remember … is it in Psycho where the woman steals the money and gets out of town, the theft being merely a McGuffin to get her in the Bates Motel, or is that how the woman in The Birds gets out to the lonely little avian-infested town?