We fucked it up again: registration for PA was rejected, despite me being told that my tags were “in the mail and should be arriving any day now.” 25 minutes on the phone and two faxes later, I think things are, again, set but I’m not holding out any hope that the dealership has this registration thing right until the actual plates are on my car and the paper slip is in my glovebox.
I hear the strains of a song getting louder as yet another mainstream media outlet talks about the idea of a global currency – and a global government. To quote the editor’s response to a letter on MSNBC:
Unless and until the world had a single government to maintain uniform fiscal and monetary policies, it’s hard to see how any independent body would be granted sufficient powers to make a workable global currency […]
Alright, then. So when do we start talking more about this idea, “free” media?
I couldn’t drive my car today, friends. It was nothing disastrous, just truly annoying. The registration had expired and my car dealer never bothered to check on the status of my plates. When I asked about them on Monday, he discovered there had been a problem – a problem that no one bothered to look into at all. On Wednesday, he promised he’d overnight me new a temporary registration.
On top of this debacle is the letter I received from VW on Friday stating that my Jetta was never turned in to them and that they’ll continue charging me until it is.
So, here we are today. One day past the end of my registration and my car is now no longer legally drivable. I’m livid. I was livid, but I spent the entire afternoon talking to the dealer via email and phone and eventually got some actual progress. The Jetta is returned. The temp tags are on their way, overnight. The registration is coming from the PA DMV and should be here (via a stop at home) soon.
But way to go, Winner Audi of Wilmington. This is such an incredible hassle and I can’t quite understand how this level of fuckery was permissible. Shouldn’t car dealers really be doing everything RIGHT in order to make customers as happy as possible even after they’ve bought a car?
In any case, thanks to Kate for loaning me Luda for the morning. I hope she enjoyed the white, German driveway decoration on her day off.
From Japan, of course.
I could speak, easily, 4500 words about the 2010 BMW Z4 interior photo in the corner of last month’s Automobile magazine. But to who? Rigel is no longer as interested as he was as a baby and Clyde is napping.
I need an automotive design buff as a friend, universe!
Can they at least die out with some dignity intact, please?
Metric has created yet another fantastic album. Fantasies joins Old World Underground and Live It Out as releases that I put squarely in the “fucking awesome beyond words” listening category. (If that wasn’t enough, Emily Haines’s side project, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton made a jaw droppingly terrific album somewhere in there, too.) Not to mention every other collaboration, band, project and remix she’s been involved with over the years.
So, yeah. Congratulations Emily Haines. I hate you.
I mean, seriously, does she ever just get up with her hair all sticking up on one side of her head and a splitting headache to then roll downstairs, burn her toast and brew the coffee all over the floor because she forgot to put the carafe under the drip? Can’t she just fuck up once? Please, Ms. Haines – the world needs you to forget to put money in the meter. Start small.
All that being said, you really should find a copy of Fantasies if for nothing other than “Help I’m Alive.” And perhaps “Collect Call,” if you can make it that far through the album without realizing how much your youth is being wasted.
Dusty and Hoover (and anyone else I rattle on to about cars) will realize how excited the fact that Ford is FINALLY bringing it’s European line to the states has made me. And Jalopnik’s first review of the 2011 Ford Fiesta proves exactly why this is such a great idea: these are fantastic cars that people actually want to own. And they are already being made! It’s like we sat down, said “sales suck” and then did something logical. *phew*
In any case, I’m thrilled – I just wish we didn’t have to make the Fiesta a 2011 model. But whatever. If they can stay afloat for that long, I think Ford’s got some major sales in its future.
Sometimes I have a day where I’m given more to read and look at by friends online than I can actually process. Sometimes I’m busy enough during a given day where even two items are too many to handle. Yesterday was one of these days. So, I present you with the COPIOUS amounts of materials now: