July 2011
33 posts
Neil Young, Roy Brizio, and Me.
June 2011
47 posts
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
– Jack Kerouac (On The Road)
One of my favorite quotes, from one of my favorite books. (Duh. I’m a car.) x LV
WatchMy old friend Jack Kerouac reads from On The Road on the Steve Allen Show in 1959 (my favorite year).
“All the stories I wrote were true, because I believed in what I saw.” Me too, Jack. Me too.
x LV
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and...”
– George Carlin
From an interesting and exciting Op-Ed about the Chevy Volt - Is This Our Future? - in the New York Times yesterday, which has some very nice things to say about my friend CV:
“I discovered when I drove it, the Volt makes sense for the economic and cultural moment we’re in now. The psychological grip it held me in, the smugness I felt as I drove past gas stations, the way it implicitly...
What's Your Number? 47 ? 62 ? 56.2 by 2025. →
The Obama administration is telling American automakers that it would like cars and light trucks to average 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025.
(Last fall, the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency said they would consider a federal standard somewhere between 47 and 62 mpg. The upper end of the range would mean a massive shift in what Americans drive. A government...
WatchOh Blog, summer is here! The season that makes a convertible’s heart beat just a little bit faster. Top down weather! Summer is Big Time for a car like me, and it always makes me call up this song, and think about getting my tires wet in the ooocean no matter what shape I’m in. Besides, all my most favorite songs of Neil’s mention cars. “Gettin’ in an old black car,...
- From “Portrait of A Lady,” by Henry James
Oh Henry James, you do have a way with words. And mine too! Four - wheels, though, not horses. They’re horses, sometimes, in my imagination. Imagination is talked about a lot in this book, one of the greatest books ever written, I mean, who can resist Henry James? He was one of the imagination’s greatest enthusiasts. Like...
Conquest
Check this out! Nothing like an action film. This one is from my friend Conquest. He’s going to be at a museum for a while (art for a car) and this is just the beginning. It’s so exciting! He’s going in!
More about the installation:
“Ransom: An Art Installation by Lewis deSoto” is on view from now to Dec. 31 at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Through Sept. 18, the...
Cars II
Of course I cannot wait to see “Cars II,” opening soon ! A review in today’s New York Times is a little bumpy, but they do make a very important point:
Ain’t it the truth! We need our humans! And our magic. x LV
A scene from the movie, oo la la! More about getting together for some scenes in Radiator Springs and beyond here.
p.s.
My old friend Rusty,...
I’m dancing as fast as I can! What I see sometimes on my speedometer. x LV
“Looking out on a big green lawn,
Girls and boys
Playing in the afternoon sun,...”
– Neil Young, in “Buffalo Springfield Again”
I agree! Life’s a joy! x LV
Highway to the sun ? →
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and...”
– Winston Churchill.
Science Connects Global Warming and Wildfires, Why Won’t The Media? Oh men of power, pay attention to what is happening to our Mother Earth. Make the connections, she can’t take the rejection! Don’t just drive on through.
x LV
The Allure of The Automobile →
An art exhibit that calls to me. x LV
WatchSad Movies!
An Op-Ed by Bill McKibben, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia dot com.
Wake up, America. Open up the tired eyes. Don’t stand by while blatant ignorance of or, even worse, refusal to acknowledge global warming threatens to cut out the parts we appreciate! Make the connections. Because Mother Earth? She can’t take the rejection.
x LV
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“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (a favorite poet) x LV
WatchElectrifying News From The East Coast:
Some of my old friends are coming alive again on the East Coast! They are so excited to be getting new life! Electrifying news. x LV
Keep building that fuel line ! →
A jolt out of the blue, and we’re into the black. Or, black is the new black -> “Cambridge Crude”: Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage.
Generally speaking crude does not turn me on, but this is something different altogether. “Cambridge Crude” oozes charm. I am intrigued. Keep building that...
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The Latest Fad Diet: Batteries That Can...
“Batteries That Can Multi-Task”, or, as I like to call it:
The Latest Fad Diet! (she said, fully aware that she is The Heavy Metal Continental and proud of it.)
I am proud to be made of heavy metal, Blog - and remember I have serious structural integrity with my unique Uni-Body construction from 1959 - but this is fascinating stuff. First of all, multi-tasking is always good....
In Venice, a Totaled BMW Plays an Opera’s Tragic Hero - At the Hungarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the artist Hajnal Németh is offering the multimedia installation “Crash: Passive Interview,” a dynamic opera of sound and light with a silent star: a totaled BMW 5 Series (CRASH: Passive Interview)
According to BMW’s interpretation of “Crash,” the installation “celebrates a...
Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Put Climate On The Brink (The Guardian 5/29/11)
I Am Very Worried.
“Last year, a record 30.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuel – a rise of 1.6Gt on 2009, according to estimates from the IEA regarded as the gold standard for emissions data.
‘I am very worried. This is the worst news on...
