Yeah. It's weird, but somehow not sad to me, hearing the reruns on NPR; in a way that makes them immortal. A few months before his passing I made a joke on facebook about how I'd like to do a similar call, not really a prank call, just some call where eventually they figured out that my car trouble stemmed from the fact that I didn't own a car. Little did I know that the show technically ended a few years earlier.

The comic book writer Mark Gruenwald had his ashes mixed into the ink of a special printing of the comic he was most proud of writing, "Squadron Supreme". (I have a copy.)

I like to hope that Dodge will produce a custom edition line of Darts with Tom's ashes mixed into the paint. Then, if the Catholics are right and we are bodily resurrected on Judgment Day, Tom will command an army of Dodge Darts.

I think my favorite was when I was driving because I desperately needed a car to get somewhere, so I borrowed my brother's, and this guy called in to talk about how his girlfriend was complaining that he was always needing a ride somewhere because he needed a license. Basically he liked riding his bike or taking public transportation, but situations would come up just like mine. "That's me," I thought, but was also like "That's not a question about a car, just the idea of driving one" and figured they'd just say "sorry, wrong show," or something like that.

Instead, Tom goes on this incredible rant about the merits of public transportation vs. driving, on a show about cars and car problems. Some of what he said was a little far-fetched (more-or-less he said that it'd be cool if the busses worked more like trains, with food service and even live musicians, anything to cheer people up instead of the dour feeling of having to take the bus) but that was Tom's world, and frankly it's the world I'd like to live in too.