Patti Smith’s son Jackson drives a jacked up Chevy Blazer.
He looks quite proud and happy standing next to his vehicle, so I don’t think he’ll be taking advantage of the “Cash for Clunkers” program to trade it in for a Prius.
She put up the photo because his birthday was August 5th. So a happy belated birthday to you, Jackson, and I hope to see you performing with your mother sometime soon in Seattle.
Yesterday the Senate approved an additional two billion dollars to keep the highly successful ”Cash for Clunkers” program. Today President Obama signed the bill that will keep the program going through Labor Day.
Conservatives hate this bill. They tend to hate anything successful that comes out of the Obama Administration. They also don’t approve of average Joes getting special benefits funded by tax dollars. Funny… many of them do seem to approve of five-hundred times the amount spent on the Cash for Clunkers program going to extremely wealthy CEO’s in the form bonuses paid via corporate welfare payments to buoy the companies they ruined with their risky management practices.
Anyway, a program that helps people afford new cars and rids the roads of gas-guzzling SUV’s and trucks and replaces them with new more fuel efficient and less polluting cars that will save the new-car buyers up to around $1,000 per year in fuel costs is a triple-good thing – the two aforementioned items, plus fewer sight-blocking F-150’s and Ford Excursions for me to get stuck behind. No wonder people have responded so favorably to the deal. The program also pumps money into the sagging auto industry. Seems like a win/win to me, but then I’m not a billionaire conservative who doesn’t care about an extra thousand dollars spent on gasoline and doesn’t believe in global warming.
One reason is that they are making this car…
… again. That’s Chevrolet’s reincarnation of the 1969 Camaro.
Mark Morford writes about it in today’s San Francisco Chronicle:
Behold this weird new Camaro. It is, in sum, exactly the wrong car at exactly the wrong time with exactly the wrong attitude attached to exactly the wrong hopeless hope for a return to a rather crude automotive golden era that never really existed in the first place.
Why does this car exist at all? No one seems quite sure. But it is, if you spend a moment in the various car blogs, all flavors of a dumb, guilty pleasure, hotly discussed and awaited like a giant extra-large triple-cheese quadruple-meat pizza, ever since GM introduced it as a crazy concept car back in one of those years Before All Hope Died.
Morford also asks why GM is resurrecting a muscle car from forty years ago instead of making this car:
That is a Pininfarina Bluecar put out by a French-Italian conglomerate named Pininfarina/Bolloré. Check out their website. And no, you can’t buy one in the USA yet.
But Dude! You can buy a Camaro!
Oh how I wish this video were available for me 20 years ago. I could have used the pointers back then. After much trial and a few errors I finally got the hang of it…
For those who are new to having sex in a car, this video is for you.
From the folks at Howcast.com.