...and apparently, so do the corny puns.

It seems that Dutch supercarmaker Spyker has agreed to buy Saab. This pleases me; I always did like that slightly eccentric Swedish brand ( Read more... )

A belated Merry Christmas and an on-time Happy 2010 to everyone! I just returned from a trip to visit The Matriarch in New Jersey. I may write more about this later. Right now, I am feeling intensely the effects both of bronchitis and a week of very little sleep (I swear, my grandmother's guest beds are made of concrete).

January: On Addictions ( Read more... )

C-SPAN is sitting on a ratings gold mine.

Korea is far enough ahead of us that the middle of their business day is our prime time. All C-SPAN has to do is hire some translators, and air on a ten minute delay proceedings from the South Korean National Assembly.

Isolated event? I don't think so. Click through some of those reference links ( Read more... )

Up in the great state of Illinois for a couple of days to visit some family. Having a blast. But this post isn't about them. It's about Jerry. (Or Jeri. I'm not sure yet. Take your pick.)

Jerry is our rental car, a Chrysler PT Cruiser. In truth, it is a good and competent car. Although the interior plastics look more appropriate for Power Wheels ( Read more... )

My mother sent me an article this week: Dishonorable Mention: The 10 Most Embarrassing Award Winners in Automotive History

My grandmother actually owned the first car on this list, a bright red Renault Alliance sedan. (It looked very much like Euro-market Renault 9.) My earliest memory of my grandmother is from sometime around 1987. She was ( Read more... )

In 2007, when I bought my Mazda 3, I started the shopping process at a really shady dealership near where I used to live. They pushed me toward one of two Mazdaspeed 6es they'd been trying to unload for some time. (The fact that the 'speed 6 was ten thousand dollars more than the car I'd walked in there to buy may have had something to do with it ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was driving to Montrose to have lunch with The Maternal Unit, and spotted a Mazda 3 identical to mine coming from the opposite direction. The driver greeted me with a flash of his brights. I wish I'd been that extra half-second quicker on the uptake to salute him back.

So, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, I was getting ready to go to bed (for the second time), and while brushing my teeth, I heard a revving engine, screeching tires, and the peculiar gunshot-like sound of twisting metal. And then I heard it all again ( Read more... )

Whatever hell-spawned infection I came down with has gotten worse in the last day. Accordingly, staying home from work. The extra four hours of sleep should've helped ( Read more... )

Most advertising drives me nuts. A lot of the time, the ads in question are just plain annoying. Even when they aren't, they're just so...perfunctory. They serve their basic purpose, but without any kind of flair. "Here's a product you should buy ( Read more... )