Carpundit

Hiatus

This blog will be silent for a while for a Carpundit sabbatical.  I'll drop the occasional post, but not daily.  Check back every now and then, or add me to your aggregator.  Thanks for reading, and happy motoring.

Happy Passover

Enjoy the holiday!  Blogging resumes Wednesday.

I Guess He's a Drag-Racing Fan

Commenter "dave buutles" doesn't think much of my racing acumen.  In a comment here, he wrote,

you should be a writer for a gardening column or something. You are brain dead when it comes to motorsports

I can't disagree.  But he should see how little I know about gardening.

On the Chicago Police Blog

Typepad's pimping the Chicago Police blog on its front screen, so I clicked over.  Police blogs are good ideas, if they're designed to get information out to the public like, say, this one.  I'm not sure about the Chicago PD one.  First off, can't they host their own domain?  I mean, it's Chicago, not Peoria; what's with Typepad?  Typepad is for people who barely know how to use the internet (me) and don't have an IT department (me again).

That aside, the motto is "Of the Police...By the Police...For the Police," which is confusing.  It's not for the public?  Then why put out self-congratulatory crap like this?  They also run stuff like this, which isn't interesting unless you know what it means.

Well, maybe they'll sort out the kinks and figure out which way they want to go with it.  here's a hint: it's a good idea to push information out to your communities and it's a bad idea to run a cop-commentary site that turns into an anti-management bitchfest (that's what union meetings are for).  Trying for the middle ground -cop commentary that's all PR approved- is just a waste of bandwidth.

Zeke Is Gone, But Chris Clarke Is Back

You'll cry here; you'll laugh here, or fume.  He's suffered a great personal loss and may be writing through it.  He's a terrific writer; in helping himself, he helps the rest of us.  Go see.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Off for the long weekend.  Back Monday.  Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Off For Labor Day

Nothing around here until next week.  Because, you know, I'm such a great supporter of organized labor that I opted to celebrate the holiday.

Lawyers Helping Lawyers

I got several emails and a nice write-up from fellow lawyers and law bloggers as a result of my David Ortiz scoop of the MSM.  Thanks for the cards and letters.  I got lucky.

"[A]n obscure website." -Dan Shaughnessy

Well, he's right - this is an obscure website.  I even use a Typepad URL.  If David Ortiz brought you here looking for the latest in Boston sports news, I think that was it.  I write about cars, mostly, with a good dose of Boston, politics, and law thrown in.  Oh, and weekends are usually dead around here.  Stop back next week.

My thanks to Dan Shaughnessy for the mention; it was gracious.

And also to Tony Massarotti, who put the URL in his follow-up piece:

Somewhat incredibly, all of this took place unbeknownst to many. It was not until Thursday, when rumor of Ortiz’ visit to Mass. General first appeared on an Internet blog (http://carpundit.typepad.com/carpundit/) that there was any hint of a problem.

Boston Man In Singapore

Boston native and globe-trotting photographer John Daley does it again: don't miss his photo essay of a day in the life of Singapore.  Great shots, as always, John, and thanks for posting.

That's one of John's shots at left, as a teaser.  Go see the rest.