A very lucky and satisfied Bring A Trailer reader has filed a report on the awesome 1973 Citroen SM he scored through the site a couple of months ago. It's the feelgood 40-yo car story of the day, but this photo and quote could not go unblogged:

This past weekend I loaded up the SM for a family road trip to hike at Starved Rock state park and take part in an MTB race in nearby Matthiessen state park. The sound of the Maserati V6 put my son to sleep for much of the drive - an unexpected benefit of SM ownership!

BaT Success Story: That Lucky Citroen SM Buyer [bringatrailer.com]

Advice well worth a few clickthroughs and pageviews.

A guaranteed end to the Mommy Wars [mom-101 via dadcentric]

Sometimes a ketchup bottle is just a ketchup bottle. Though with Paul McCarthy, you can never be sure if this is one of those times.

Still, congratulations to the Public Art Fund for erecting this awesome inflatable Daddie's Ketchup in City Hall Park as part of their Common Ground summer exhibition, which explores, among other things, the "incorporation of language, symbolism and metaphor" in public art, and which opens this evening.

Paul McCarthy's giant, inflatable ketchup looming over City Hall Park [publicartfund's tumblr]
Totally unrelated, completely, totally: Santa Butt Plug, 2007, Antwerp [hauserwirth]

For the late intergalactic Jazz overlord's birthday, Dangerous Minds points to Sun Ra and the Arkestra's rendition of "Pink Elephants on Parade," which is synched up here with the original, terrifying Dumbo animation.

The cut is from a 1988 album of WTF early Disney covers from the likes of Bonnie Rait, Ringo Starr, Sinead O'Connor--and Tom Waits, whose growl-moaning version of "Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho" takes its cue from the Seven Murderous Dwarves' pickaxes and towering shadows. It is awesome.

Oh wow, and Sun Ra did an entire Disney cover album, Second Star to the Right: Salute to Walt Disney. Here is a 1989 Arkestra performance of Zip A Dee Doo Dah from Austria.

Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films [amazon]

But then when DT reader Sara sent along this one,

I realized that the right thing to do is just find the hell out of these things in the comments.

My "baby" is having me committed to a state mental institution. @Huggies: Hey dads: what do you have planned for you and baby this weekend?

It's one of the things I've never really made explicit, mostly because I just hoped the language shift would catch on, or at least be noticed, even unconsciously, by people visiting the site.

But I hate the use of the term "baby" without an article so much it hurts. It's one of the tiniest, yet most annoying things about the Baby Industrial Complex and its historical focus on speaking almost exclusively to moms.

And so from the very beginning, I've never used that construct on Daddy Types. And it's why I almost always use "kid" or "kid" instead. Obviously, I'm resigned to the fact that "baby" has not been smothered in its syntactical crib. Yet.

Here is a photograph of a Clone Trooper pushing a gun and a Coke in a stroller at the Maker Faire. Really not much I can add to it at this point.

Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire Attendees (Part 2) [makezine]

Regular DT readers know I love nothing more than leaving money on the table. From all the ads and sponsored content we don't sell, to all the giveaways and tweetups and shilling contests we don't run.

And now I've found a new way to not maximize the amount of kid gear-related money I take in: by skipping the eBay madhouse and just cold underpricing this pair of Bugaboo Maxi-Cosi adapters in a straight-to-you offer.

These Bugaboo adapters are for the Frog, Cameleon or Gecko, and they fit the Maxi Cosi Mico, Cabrio or CabrioFix infant carriers. They're identical to the models Bugaboo currently sells in the US for $45, though we got them in 2004, from England, and they cost £44 plus approximately £1,000,000 for shipping.

So if I priority mail these to you in the US for $30, I'll be taking a 99.999% haircut.

They do have a patina, but they work perfectly. Do let me know if you'd like them.

Or buy some Bugaboo Maxi-Cosi adapters new for $50 and up, shipped [amazon]

Amsterdam designer Dirk Vander Kooij developed his Endless Flow Process for his 2010 Eindhoven thesis project. Since then, he's refined it to the point where his repurposed industrial robot extruder can print a plastic chair out of recycled refrigerator components in just a couple of hours.

Here's a nice little video of the goopy Endless Process:

At EUR480 for the kid-size rocker, I'm guessing the injection molded crap plastic furniture industry is not yet quaking in its boots.

Endless Flow Products, including The Little One rocker [dirkvanderkooij.nl via kottke]

Luxurious women's lounges in department stores are nothing new. But I still can't help thinking the six differently themed ladies' rooms on each level of the new Shibuya Hikarie complex, including the curtain-filled breastfeeding spa on B2, is the "make lemonade"-style expression of the embarrassment and shame directed at women and their bodies that's so deeply ingrained in Japan's pathologically patriarchal culture.

On the other hand, free wi-fi!

you'll want to visit Shibuya Hikarie just to use the ladies' room! [en.rocketnews24.com via @camcavers]

A reader at Talking Points Memo sent along pictures from his grandmother's attic of Republican coloring book that mocked President Kennedy.

Basically nothing has changed in fifty years, which at least provides a sort of comfort, a continuity with the past, that sort of thing.

Vintage Anti-JFK GOP Coloring Book from the Early 60s [talkingpointsmemo]

Tokyo guru Jean Snow's mechakucha-kawaii photo just proves that eclipses are one of the few things to surpass toddlerhood for fleeting awesomeness.

"This is my favorite photo of people taking in today's eclipse" [@jeansnow via @camcavers]

Food trucks, by the way, seem to have replaced yoga classes as an easy, quasi-hip contemporary reference to be exploited in romantic comedies. Enough already. On the other hand, the sight of a bunch of guys with babies strapped to their chests is always funny. So is the word vagina.

Delivering Babies by the Book (Abridged )

You know, it's been a busy, even crazy week, and my eye is kind of hurting because I swim with only one eye open, when I should really just get a pair of goggles? Anyway, this week's freakout is over the dire threat to the white race or whatever. Which, thanks to Ill Doctrine's very well-reasoned, unthreateningly black Ze Frank-ish take on this important matter, we know is not really that big a deal.

Don't Freak Out About The White Babies [vimeo]

1991 was the only year the Audi 200 Avant came with a 20-valve, 280hp 5-cylinder engine. And it was also the only year that the 20-valve turbo engine was offered in a station wagon body style.

Does that help communicate the rarity of this awesome ride, one of the pioneers of the uber-wagon genre? If not, then let the wagon nerds in Bring A Trailer's comment thread have their way with you for a bit.

Old school Audi Avant awesomeness in great-sounding condtion, for $7,500? Do want.

Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant (wagon) - $7500 (White Salmon) [portland.craigslist.org via BaT]
1991 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant [bringatrailer]