September 2011
30 posts
Hello, dear Blog. Check these out: The new television spots for my good friend CV (Chevy Volt). Funny. Whoa! What are ya doin’? I thought these were electric! x LV
A Way to Make Motor Fuel Out of Wood? →
Just add water. Really, that’s what it says. I don’t make this stuff up, Blog! Check this out:
The goal is to accomplish something that has eluded a dozen companies in recent years despite big government inducements: to commercialize a technology for making use of cellulosic biomass, or wood chips, switchgrass and the nonedible parts of crops … the supply of cellulosic biomass...
“Action from principle is essentially revolutionary.”
– Thoreau. Right on, my brother from another mother! x LV
It’s Official: 2012 Infiniti M35H is World’s Fastest Hybrid
More hybrids in the news! Oh, that’s nice. Hey wait, wha?! It’s official? World’s Fastest Hybrid?! What the ? What about me?! I can be fast! I’m the fastest! I’m smart, for a car! Oh. Wait. They aren’t talking about speed of mind? Oh. Well.
Hey! (Comes screeching...
Don't Spook The Horse! Uh . . . Pedestrian. ... →
“… in a few years, the government will require electric cars and gasoline-electric hybrids to emit some type of noise at low speeds, when their battery-driven motors usually run silent. The promised rules—aimed at making the vehicles safer for vision-impaired pedestrians and others who rely on aural cues—have launched auto makers on a quest for the perfect sound.”
Watch your...
Taking in the sights and sounds of nature appears... →
Mother Nature takes care of us all. Now we need to take care of her. We’ve got to save Mother Earth, before she’s gone. And, hmm. I gotta get out more. x LV
“Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
– Thomas Friedman today in Is It Weird Enough Yet?, his excellent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, talking to climate change deniers (and quoting Jack Nicholson in the film “As Good As It Gets”).
“Remember the first rule of global warming. The way it unfolds is really “global...
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“How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet, does not intrude.”
– Emily Dickinson. Please File Under Favorite Poets / Poems / Nature. x LV
Check it out, Blog - Neil at the wheel ! A new movie starring my bff Neil Young and my friend Victoria ! Journeys. x LV
“JOURNEYS” SCREENING IN TORONTO:“Neil Young Journeys” - the new film from Jonathan Demme that captures Neil’s 2011 Massey Hall show plus footage on the road in his 1956 Ford Crown Victoria - will screen at the Toronto Festival on...
Hey, Hey It's The . . . Beetles? →
Yes! Some of my old friends just made a record! Check it out.
While most automakers are trying to quiet vehicles and banish engine noise from the cabin, one company has dialed in the audio wayback machine to sell the sounds of the vintage Volkswagen Beetle … How its curators chose the models featured on the album: “The 1960 Beetle was the original 1200cc engine (with a mighty 36 hp),...
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
– Toni Cade Bambara
“Well my old car’s a-rollin’ down the line
Thoughts of my baby...”
– Buddy Holly. Ya gotta love a car song!
Buddy Holly was born on this day in 1936, and died way too young, the year I was born, 1959. Rock ‘n Roll! x LV
On a Manhattan Rooftop, Talking Tail Fins With the Designer of the Cadillac Ciel (Cadillac’s new electric hybrid vehicle)
There is no shortage of emblematic American land yachts that the Ciel, which is a foot longer than a Cadillac CTS sedan, evokes. Take the Lincoln Continental of the early to mid-1960s, for example. Not only the car’s long, slab sides and sharp fender creases lend...
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”
– Rumi (1207-1273). From the ancient voices, wisdom. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth, and we should be doing them all, every single day. There are also a thousand ways to send our leaders a message: We need to save Mother Earth. Let’s keep rolling, friends. Mother Earth...
