![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
This is not a Love Song
Feb. 8th, 2007 10:59 pmOne thing about an employee meeting that eats up 65 minutes of my life, on the busiest day of the workweek - it gives me time to think about a writing project. An ongoing project.
Godawful cold continues. 16 right now, dropping to 5 overnight. I know in 6 months, I'll be bitching about the heat, but, man, I have had it with this weather for a while.
Ford's doing something that I think is pretty darn smart. Starting with the 2008 model year, the Taurus and Sable names are coming back, taking over the 500 and Montego, respectively, and the Freestyle is becoming the Taurus X. The cars are getting a badly-needed power boost to make them comparable to the competition, and Ford's CEO is making a statement about not resting on a great first-year product (as the company has been notorious for), but instead making incremental improvements in every model year. Now, assuming the company is able to right its course and survive and thrive, I have a little tiny wishlist. Since the current Fusion mid-size is built on a Mazda 6-inspired platform, how about putting the Mazda Speed6's go-fast and road-holdy parts (the turbocharged 2.3L I-4 and AWD setup) into a Fusion and calling it a Fusion SHO or SVT? And since I'm asking nicely, take note that Dodge is about to take away the police cruiser market from the ol' Crown Victoria, so fight 'em hard, and go GM one better, and bring us that mean-sumbitchin' Falcon from Ford Australia. In all the incarnations except the Ute, please. Base V6, blown V6, and big ol' V8.
Comics today - Iron Man: Hypervelocity #2 and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1. Hypervelocity intrigues me. An extremely hardware-heavy Iron Man story, set before this whole Civil War trainwreck ... and I think maybe it's going to be used to explain Stark's ... craziness during CW. The Gunslinger comic is a good-looking retelling of one part of the first DT book - Roland's test against Cord and the events immediately surrounding it. Man. I'd lost sight of how amazing this was. Still is, too.
Godawful cold continues. 16 right now, dropping to 5 overnight. I know in 6 months, I'll be bitching about the heat, but, man, I have had it with this weather for a while.
Ford's doing something that I think is pretty darn smart. Starting with the 2008 model year, the Taurus and Sable names are coming back, taking over the 500 and Montego, respectively, and the Freestyle is becoming the Taurus X. The cars are getting a badly-needed power boost to make them comparable to the competition, and Ford's CEO is making a statement about not resting on a great first-year product (as the company has been notorious for), but instead making incremental improvements in every model year. Now, assuming the company is able to right its course and survive and thrive, I have a little tiny wishlist. Since the current Fusion mid-size is built on a Mazda 6-inspired platform, how about putting the Mazda Speed6's go-fast and road-holdy parts (the turbocharged 2.3L I-4 and AWD setup) into a Fusion and calling it a Fusion SHO or SVT? And since I'm asking nicely, take note that Dodge is about to take away the police cruiser market from the ol' Crown Victoria, so fight 'em hard, and go GM one better, and bring us that mean-sumbitchin' Falcon from Ford Australia. In all the incarnations except the Ute, please. Base V6, blown V6, and big ol' V8.
Comics today - Iron Man: Hypervelocity #2 and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1. Hypervelocity intrigues me. An extremely hardware-heavy Iron Man story, set before this whole Civil War trainwreck ... and I think maybe it's going to be used to explain Stark's ... craziness during CW. The Gunslinger comic is a good-looking retelling of one part of the first DT book - Roland's test against Cord and the events immediately surrounding it. Man. I'd lost sight of how amazing this was. Still is, too.