"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, dumb things I have done, meh, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 15th, 2014
If I parked the car any nearer to the garage, it would have to be parked inside the garage. I actually back in with the window rolled down and my head out to make sure of my distance. The big deal and my self-imposed parking challenge is that I have to do this all in […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Delight, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jan 12th, 2014
So, in 1993, I was a the wee slip of a girl you see above, clambering joyously aboard a car-hauler to inspect her Very Own Car. Most teenagers dream of their first set of wheels, and have quite specific ideas about what their dream car is. Most never do get their hands on their dream […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants on Feb 7th, 2013
A reader caught a typo for me in my Kia Magentis post from the other day – I’d mis-named the Chrysler 300, a leaden and funereal 4-door sedan as a Chrysler 500 (because I have stubby-little-kid-hands and have to take my fingers off home-row to hit the number keys) and he thought I was making […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Holidailies 2012, Recommendations on Dec 27th, 2012
the famous DX, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. The 1.5 litre 1988 Honda Civic DX has enough pickup through the lower range of gears that I can get annoyed at other drivers for being slow on the takeoff. In fact, it is just sprightly enough that I can combine impatience and enjoyment in almost […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Playing With Weather, Take A Look At This on May 28th, 2011
As is well documented, one of my pet amusements is riding around town aimlessly with a camera in my bag, in case I see something cool to take a picture of. Last Saturday, I did. This here is a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette. I’d never seen one in person, so there were a lot of neat […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cats, Gratuitous Cussing, Oh, for fuck's sake on Dec 7th, 2010
Oh but he was! The trauma of his annual trip to the veterinarian for his vaccination boosters brought out Griswald’s inner Mr. Humphries (or Niles Crane, depending on your decade and side of the pond). His histrionics are impressive, if you don’t have to share the cab of a pickup with his yowling, howling, frenzied […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 10th, 2009
Apparently driving a stickshift one day re-trains me immediately. It’s pretty well established that I don’t drive much. It stresses me out, I get lost, etc. But when we were up visiting my folks, I drove Dad’s Jetta – we needed to go in to town and pick some stuff up, and Dad wasn’t up […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Feb 18th, 2009
My love of covers is well documented. I really love how different bands can put their individual stamp on a song, and so here are a couple of wildly different takes on the same song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sS5jSbV0Vg] First we have Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, doing a “western swing” version of a super-cool song about […]
Posted in biking, Burley, Car Drama and trauma, Imports from old blogs on Jun 17th, 2005
On the way home from the grocery store, a thought clicked into my brain. My brain stiffened up a moment, then gave itself a stern talking-to. It said: “You know what? You know what? Fuck it! You spent twice the price of that bike and then some to keep a car you fucking hated on […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Jan 24th, 2005
About which I bitched so vehemently last week. We took it to Vee Village today, and after 20 minutes of removing splash-shields and inspecting the radiator and its environs thoroughly, they called me at the office to tell me that there’s not a goddamn thing wrong with the radiator, its mounting brackets, the heater core, […]