Gasps might be heard among some when they see Bob Dylan selling Cadillacs on their TV sets. He’s in the new Cadillac Escalade commercials and print ads. Check the new issue of “Rolling Stone” magazine (the third of a series of 40th Anniversary issues).

Cadillac is sponsoring Dylan’s XM radio show “Theme Time Radio Hour” where all the songs he disc-jockys follow a particular theme. The Oct. 24 episode was a Cadillac theme and that’s how the whole ad campaign was born.

According to “Rolling Stone” Dylan didn’t come without a hitch. He insisted that he wouldn’t speak on camera, his own music wouldn’t be used in the commercial and he would wear his own clothes.

I wonder if some of those demands have anything to do with one of his previous commercials for Victoria’s Secret, when they used his song “Love Sick.” Do you think they tried to get him to wear something slinky?

Anyway, filmed in 100-plus temperatures in the California desert, a scriptwriter told “Rolling Stone” Dylan wore black pants, a black coat, a black hat and gloves, but they never saw him sweat … I’ve always said no one is cooler than Bob.



Sirius is serious



Speaking of XM Radio … Sirius, the other satellite radio station, wants to buy XM for $5 billion. Shareholders of the two corporations seem to be happy about it, but, some rules will have to change in Washington before the deal can go down.

If approved, the plan is to offer pricing ranges from $6.99 per month, for 50 channels offered by one service, up to $16.99 a month, where subscribers would keep their existing service plus choose channels offered by the other service. It’s the best of both worlds. The satellite radio folks are hoping they can iron everything out by the end of the year.



Ill for eel



And on the subject of year’s end … Thanksgiving is next Thursday. Then do you realize it’s only 33 days to Christmas, then seven more days to 2008!?

If you’re wanting to do something different for Thanksgiving this year try preparing a real traditional meal, one with items on the menu that were definitely available to the pilgrims and Indians at Plymouth back in 1621.

Historians know that they ate deer and fowl, but what kind of fowl is uncertain. Possibilities include wild turkey, partridge, goose, crane, swan, duck and eagle.

They could have had Indian corn but it was kept dried out back then up there.

And, while they had pumpkins available to them they were most likely prepared stewed. There was no such thing as pumpkin pie back then. They had cranberries, too, but no sugar to make cranberry sauce.

The most interesting food for Thanksgiving available to pilgrims and Indians was the seafood: Lobster, clams; cod; and yummy eel.

What if it had been documented that eel was the primary meat source that first Thanksgiving. Can you imagine the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a giant inflatable eel winding it’s way through the streets of New York?

Can you imagine asking grandpa to carve the eel? What kind of dressing would you make for eel? And for a midnight snack after the big meal, what would a cold eel sandwich taste like with lots of mayo and a tall glass of milk?