April 2010
115 posts
Dear Blog,
I am very excited to be on the road today! But very sorry not to be on LV-TV (also known as USTREAM, but you and I really know that it’s LV-TV). But I am also excited for another reason.
I have kind of a long story to tell you. I have been waiting and waiting to tell you, Blog, because I kind of wanted to tell Neil first, but I haven’t seen him in so long! I miss him so...
Whoa. If this comes to the U.S. it’s gonna save me a lot of money on Starbucks Double Shots. ✗ LV
“Electric car charging is set to get a whole lot quicker—at least if Infracharge gets its way. The company, which supplies roadside charging station to London boroughs, will shortly be rolling out a new set of roadside and home charging stations that it says can recharge...
WatchI was broadcasting live from The Garage again today, Blog, it was so fun to be with my friends from Shakey Pictures again and some of my friends from around the world. I might be on TV again tomorrow, or one of these days, so stay tuned. If I’m On Air you can watch me right here, or tune into my live USTREAM Channel. ♡ LV
LATEST OFFICIAL UPDATE ABOUT ME !
Here’s the latest official update from my Team, Blog. Go ahead. Read it. I’ll wait.
Oh never mind, I can’t resist ! Before you read that, I have to give you this preamble.
I’ve been on the road! The actual road! The twisted road! The proud highway!
We’ve been doing some tests on a-c-t-u-a-l asphalt, which is so thrilling for me I can hardly maintain. ...
“you know she needs attention
so take her for a ride
she loves to go out...”
– Lyrics to Get Behind the Wheel, one of Neil’s songs about me. It’s true all that you say there, about me, you know, N. All of it. I do always want to please you, no matter what shape you’re in. Or I’m in. I’m still trying, as hard as I can.
x LV
Blackbird Flies.
Here’s a vid for my new friend, Blackbird, who has a turbine just like I am going to get!
Blackbird, I know we’re going to be great friends. Even if I am kind of scared of you.
Well I mean, LOOK at him. Kind of scary. Very badass. Oh. Wait. What am I saying? I’m Badass too. With a capital B. Never mind. Yo, Blackbird, wassup?
A fire extinguisher? Yes....
“Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts of how the city’s many...”
– From A High-Minded Look At Electric Cars, a New York Times report on Friday’s forum at Columbia University called “New York and the Electric Car.”
I love a high-minded look at anything, but especially when it comes to electric cars. I get all excited when people celebrate the role that...
This Just In: Friday Afternoon Sends A Postcard.
Oh Blog, I have spent the most lovely afternoon! And you know what they say.
“Spend the afternoon! You can’t take it with you.” (Annie Dillard said that. Somethin’ like that.)
Happy week-end, lovely Blog. x LV
N. & Roy listening to my heart. Tea time with N.
...
Self-Empowerment ?
Dear Team,
I’m all for self-empowerment, but please don’t turn me into:
Generate Your Own Electricity
x LV
Another Classic Car That's Clean & Green & ......
Henry Ford’s “Vegetable” or “Hemp” Car, 1941
On August 14, 1941, at the 15th Annual Dearborn Michigan Homecoming Day celebration, Henry Ford unveiled his biological car. Seventy percent of the body of the cream-colored automobile consisted of a mat of long and short fibers from field straw, cotton linters, hemp, flax, ramie and slash pine. The other 30 percent...
“The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the...”
– Henry Ford, to the New York Times in 1925
WatchJust singing a song won’t
Movies about electric cars might change the world, one Geo at a time.
x LV
“You can drive my car, feel how it rolls, feel a new energy, as it quietly rolls”
– NY (my bff), singing about me (I love it when he does that). From “Just Singing A Song Won’t Change The World.”
LV in Wonderland
Ring ring.
Pearl: Hello?
LV: I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
Pearl: LV? Oh dear. What's happened?
LV: It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller.
Pearl: LV, you're not making any sense.
LV: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change!
Pearl: LV, would you please explain yourself? What is going on?
LV: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.
Pearl: Sir? What the ? LV! Have you gone completely mad?
LV: How do you know I'm mad?
Pearl: Ah. I think I see. LV, are things over there getting ... "curiouser and curiouser"?
LV: Oh Pearl! Finally. You see. I have fallen down the rabbit hole, I'm afraid.
Pearl: The rabbit hole.
LV: Yes. I'm TINY. Absolutely miniscule! Oh dear. Neil is going to be so disappointed. Now I am never going to be able to complete my mission, and it's all ...
Pearl: Whoa, whoa, hold on there, LV. What on God's green earth are you talking about, miniscule? You've ... shrunk? Like Alice in Wonderland.
LV: (whispering) YES!
Pearl: How do you know?
LV: (exasperated) Here. I'll take a picture. (click) Check my blog!
(LV waits while Pearl checks. Pearl returns to phone, laughing.)
LV: How can you laugh at a time like this?!
Pearl: Okay. Sorry, LV. The good news is, you have NOT shrunk. No, you have not.
LV: Do you not see the GIANT HOOD ORNAMENT NEXT TO ME, PEARL?
Pearl: Yes, LV, I see it. But it's not your hood ornament.
LV: (confused now) What?
Pearl: LV, that's not your hood ornament. You have not shrunk! That's a beautiful, giant emblem that resembles your hood ornament, just bigger; it's going somewhere else. Remember?
LV: Oh ... I thought ... I thought ...
Pearl: You thought it was your hood ornament and you had somehow shrunk, like Alice.
LV: (very small voice) Well . . . yes.
Pearl: Oh LV! You are really not used to your new spot there in the garage yet, are you. Listen, LV. You're okay. Everything's fine! This is very exciting! It's another beautiful thing for you!
LV: Oh.
Pearl: Aren't you excited?!
LV: Well after this I shall think nothing of falling down stairs.
Pearl: LV! No more Alice in Wonderland talk!
LV: Just kidding. Yes. Yes! I am. Excited. Thanks, Pearl. For setting me straight.
Pearl: No problem, LV. Hang in there.
LV: Bye Pearl.
Pearl: (smiling) Bye, LV.
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead;...”
– Speaking of Albert Einstein, this is one of my favorite quotes from him. Albert and I are kindred spirits in our attraction to wonder, and awe. It’s a powerful force in the universe. And I’m proud to be part of it.
x LV
Electric Cars Enter The Virtual World →
Renault’s electric cars will feature in the video game The Sims 3.
“It pays to go green in The Sims 3, with players benefiting from lower virtual household bills and happier Sims.”
Don't Get Lost on The Hydrogen Highway →
A private plan for a hydrogen highway on the East Coast.
Chillin’ wit my homies. I’m a little giddy this morning, dear Blog.
It’s just, well, being this close to the BatMobile and all …
Actually, truth be known, just knowing that my friends are right here, with me, makes me giddy. What can I say? Really, it does.
x LV
