Month: February 2019

Better Than The Rest

Have you noticed car commercials for the last few years? Do you notice a theme? It’s mostly with the higher end models, Lexus, Cadillac, Audi, Mercedes, etc.. Come on, I know you all have noticed! It’s like the average person can’t drive one of these cars. Not average in a financial sense, but average in a normal person sense. Apparently you have to be beautiful, handsome, sexy and feel you are better than the rest to buy these cars. Oh, and if you are a man you have to have the closely cropped beard that looks like you just began to grow it out! The Lincoln commercials are my most hated. You know, the ones that star the Oscar winner who, in his own words, is his own hero. How much more hubris can a commercial get?

I don’t want to see bows on cars anymore. I want to see a normal looking, average person on car commercials. And not the commercials that say “real people, not actors”. I’m guessing that means that actors are not real people.

There’s also all these sayings

  • Follow No One (somebody tell Volvo that when you’re driving you are almost always following someone, and if you buy a Volvo you are following a trend)
  • The Best or Nothing (not everyone can afford a Mercedes, that doesn’t mean they should go with out)
  • The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection (Toyota’s Lexus line has been out almost 30 years, haven’t they got it right yet?)
  • The Ultimate Driving Machine (Might not be a bad one except for the service record for BMWs is not all that great)
  • Vorsprung durch Technik (Translated means Being Ahead Through Through Technology – Audi, just a bad one)
  • That’s just a few. They should just tell it as it is…You can’t drive this car unless your one of the privileged few. At least they don’t want to think we can. For me, I drive a Fix Or Repair Daily.

    • Time Flies When You’re Having……Dread!

    It’s been a while. I bet you all thought you were finally rid of me. Nope. I took a break. A fairly long break in turns out. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say. Quite the opposite. I’ve had so much to say that I was paralyzed by what to write about next. So much fodder for the mind.

    How about that State of the Union? Wasn’t that great? I just loved the way the “President” jutted out his chin right after he would say how great he is. Another take away is just how bland the Vice President is. So bland that he is beginning to fade away. Just a blur now. Soon, who knows, maybe he’ll become the first invisible Vice President (wait, wasn’t that Dan Quail?)!

    I really didn’t pay attention to much that he said. Figured it was all bluster and lies anyway. Though I did have one good takeaway; when he said that if it wasn’t for him we would probably be at war with North Korea now. That’s what he gets from his self-proclaimed love of Kim Jong-un and their “talks”? Just makes me wonder if there really is anything working under that mop of hair and behind the orange spray tan.

    Okay, enough of that. What about all the democrats running for president? Anyone make you happy? Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Cory booker, Sen. Kamala Harris, ex-San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, Rep. Tulips Gabbard, former W. Va. state Sen. Richard Ojeda, former Rep. John Delaney and former tech executive Andrew Yang. There are more, too many to list here. It’s a good start but it is really the force we need to bring radical change to our country?

    That’s a bit of what’s been on my mind. Just a bit. There’s more to come to be sure. When? You ask with baited breath? I’ll do my best to be a little more consistent in the future. But it’s hard to find time to fit in both my golf days and my writing days (or ranting days). Remember, I don’t do this for a living. Believe it or not I do it for fun. I work at a real job for a living (just so I can do this and play golf and hang out with my granddaughter.

    Back at you soon!