Because a Livejournal is not a blog

I've started a blog for some of my specific thoughts on Torah, Judaism, and the like. I fully intend to avoid politics over there, even (or perhaps especially) about Israel. THIS is my space for ranting and raving. I have seen too many Jewish blogs become Israel blogs, and so I have sort of decided I need a space for apolitical yiddishkeit.

The address is http://reformbaaltshuvah.blogspot.com. It's very nascent, needs much work, but has a couple of entries. Do have a peek, if you're inclined.

PT Cruiser

I rented a PT Cruiser for the weekend. Not intentionally. More like, yeah, you requested a subcompact, but we're upgrading you to a pig.

And a pig it is. I don't know that I've ever liked driving a car less.

It's a simulacrum of some 40's era thing, like a DeSoto maybe. It duplicates those beautiful metal dashboards of yore with injection molded plastic with obvious seems.

When you put your pedal to the metal, that engine tries, really tries hard for you, but as they say, tryin' is lyin' and a rate of acceleration my Saturn could achieve without breaking 4K this thing redlines and cannot manage. (It would be unfair to bring the Cav into the equation with its six cylinders)

The car handles well, though the turning radius is more GM than Chrysler - A K-Car fares better than this.

All told, the PT Cruiser elevates form above function, and executes that form perfunctorily.

It does have a REALLY GREAT sound system though.