Santa Fe to Amarillo

This morning Katie and I wandered around Santa Fe for a while and went to the Loretta Chapel. It has a "Miraculous Stairway"--it winds around twice on its way to the choir loft without any visible means of support. Adding to the "mystery" of good engineering, the carpenter disappeared after six months it took him to make it without payment. The guard rail was added later, because that is a crazy staircase to make nuns climb without anything to hold onto.
But now comes the great part: Cadillac Ranch. I've been waiting for this one. In 1974, one man (along with some help) upended 10 1960's Cadillacs into the ground (at the exact angle of the Egyptian pyramids, by the way). It's a kind of homage to the golden age of Route 66, and it's also a fun and freaky thing to do. Since then, people come by every day and paint whatever they want on them.


But I am no mere spray-paint fly-by-nighter, oh no. I cut a stencil for the brand-new website that I'm starting up with Katie, www.dilettantearmy.com, that we can use to detail the artistic leanings of otherwise reasonable human beings. It's in red on the car (twice because we screwed it up the first time, in true dilettante fashion).
We can't decide on a slogan. Here are some of the options; you can weigh in if you like.

1. Dilettante Army: It won't pay the rent.
2. Dilettante Army: Conquering the world if we feel like it.
3. Dilettante Army: It's what we do...when we're not doing something else.