bjorn_skurj

You couldn't help it, could you?

There's been a for-sale Touareg parked for like a month and a half at our local Dairy Queen. I am not going to buy it.

I have just seen two of the commercials. They are not bad, for commercials.

Do black people in Canada get the same hard time they do here?

I think the cultural impact would have been minimal. The north and the south were economically intertwined and would have remained so even if the north had given up and let the south be its own country.

I am going to work for my summer vacation.

Oh, now now. The only visitors to America who should be scared are Muslims.

Senate votes to raise mileage standards to 35 mpg for cars, SUVs Eds: TOPS with 7 grafs to UPDATE. Moving on general news and financial services. By H. JOSEF HEBERT news://newsclip.ap.org/d3c7a94e-31dd-494d-...04a@news.ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Thursday to require average fuel economy of 35 miles per gallon for new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs by 2020, raising efficiency standards that have not changed significantly for nearly two decades. The fuel economy measure was added to a broad energy bill without a roll call vote even as senators were holding a news conference ann

Except for the Catskills and The North.

Seconded. I lost it when they showed the picture of Mr. Ed in the KKK.

When is your visa to Fantasyland due to expire?

People like bigger cars, and until recently, gas hadn't been that expensive.

Maybe.

Yeah, but the slaves wouldn't have.

That's a pretty sweet little car there.

One union, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

VWs are nice. Most people look good driving them.

I don't really follow you on the last line there, but I will say that if you listen to the Velvets in NYC, it brings out a dimension of feeling that may not be readily apparent if you listen to them elsewhere.

Those are both killer tracks, but my fave from that album remains the first.

I was thinking the other day that it's been a long time since I had some good old down home German food.

I like Bloomberg a hell of a lot more than I like Giuliani. Bloomberg is a pragmatist, not an idealist, which you really need to be to make New York City operate. Giuliani was a crappy mayor who turned the city into a minor police state. As far as 9/11 goes, all he did was not lose his shit in a time of crisis, which seems to me to be a baseline requirement of an elected official in his position. He almost got himself killed that day, because he located the city's emergency center right next to the one place in the city THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS. What a dumbass. And a mean d

No. I just have a very memorable memory of listening to the VU and Nico while piloting an Oldsmobile diesel station wagon filled with teenage girls into the lower parts of Manhattan. "Run Run Run" is like the ultimate "hurtling down the FDR Drive in a car you can't quite control" song. Seriously, the jumpiness and intensity of NYC is the perfect match for (and genesis of) Velvets' raw freneticism. Some music is placeless and timeless; the VU is not, in my humble (but considered) opinion.

Yes. The scandal of people using an apostrophe to pluralize nouns.

You can get a $2 cup of coffee at Starbucks. It's when you start going espresso that the price goes up. And to my palate, Starbucks is better. (DD's key lime pie doughnut is, however, the shit.)

Best wishes to one of my VC faves.