My blog has launched!

[Raza]

Well, since the CarSPIN blog has fizzled and laid dead for years and Autombear is a long distant memory, I've decided to finally launch my own blog.  So, I need your help!  Read it, tell your friends about it, and follow it.  

As you can expect, it's going to mostly be about cars, the market, driving, and maybe a few other interests.  My goal is to update every few days with short posts and a longer post every week or two.  Of course, I'll have pictures and commentary on news events in the car space.  

https://accelerationtherapy.squarespace.com/

You can also follow me on Twitter: @accelerationdoc

Thanks in advance for your support, guys.

Here's a snippet from the first post, to entice you to click:

There?s nothing like it; not to me, at least.  Top down, wind in my hair, the sound of the engine filling my ears, the smells of the outside world, good or bad, assaulting my nostrils like they were a loan shark and I?m late on my payments.  Each perfect shift, each clipped apex, and each empty stretch of road puts an ear to ear grin on my face like a child at Disney World.  Just the thought of a lonely highway blast or a deserted back road can be a vacation from the numbing mundanity of everyday life.

The enthusiastic motorist lives in a scary world now.  We?re more and more the target of political distaste, and on top of that, we?re a dying breed.  People are growing up not knowing how to drive a manual transmission.  We?re being sold a bill of goods that tell us that new automatics are more fun because they shift faster than we can on our own.  Gas prices are going up.  Hybrids are being driven not just by the patchouli oil crowd, but by normal people who drive to work and go home like everybody else.  Aston Martin sells a rebadged Scion subcompact.  Driving is looked at as something to be done joylessly, only when absolutely necessary and all other means of transportation have been exhausted or are not feasible.  And when we do finally get on the road, they?re clogged, plagued by endless construction that never seems to fix anything on roads that were just fine only yesterday.

[S204STi]

Sweet, dude.  I dig.

[CALL_911]

Very cool. I've bookmarked it.

[CJ]

Followed on Twitter.

[Raza]

Thanks guys!  I'm planning on posting up again on Tuesday, and then again on the coming weekend about my potential Triple D mini road trip.

[Colin]

Good start, Raza. Enjoyed reading your thoughts. Keep 'em coming.

[TBR]

I find a lot of times when people try to discuss the "car experience" it comes across as very forced. Not so here. Well done Raza.

I will admit I chuckled a little at the manual transmission references. As you may or may not recall, our first interactions were me trying to convince that learning how to drive stick was worth the hassle while you insisted that it wouldn't really add to the experience. Of course I didn't know a damn thing back then since I was probably all of 13, but turns out I was right on that one.

[Secret Chimp]

Get your self a cheap domain host. accelerationtherapy.com isn't taken yet.

[Raza]

Get your self a cheap domain host. accelerationtherapy.com isn't taken yet.

Wouldn't building a website from scratch take a lot more work than just using a Squarespace template?

[Raza]

I find a lot of times when people try to discuss the "car experience" it comes across as very forced. Not so here. Well done Raza.

I will admit I chuckled a little at the manual transmission references. As you may or may not recall, our first interactions were me trying to convince that learning how to drive stick was worth the hassle while you insisted that it wouldn't really add to the experience. Of course I didn't know a damn thing back then since I was probably all of 13, but turns out I was right on that one.

Yes you were. I was quite young myself, and clearly compensating for the fact that I didn't know how to drive stick back then.

And thanks for the kind words.

[TBR]

Yes you were. I was quite young myself, and clearly compensating for the fact that I didn't know how to drive stick back then.

And thanks for the kind words.

That was probably close to ten years ago, wasn't it?

[Secret Chimp]

Wouldn't building a website from scratch take a lot more work than just using a Squarespace template?

The domain is just the .com. You can set it up to redirect to squarespace. It's just easier to remember.

[SVT666]

Great read Raza.  Posted on my Facebook.

[Raza]

The domain is just the .com. You can set it up to redirect to squarespace. It's just easier to remember.

Interesting.

[Raza]

That was probably close to ten years ago, wasn't it?

Maybe to the day. I think I signed up for that forum just before I turned 16, so it's been at least ten years.

[Raza]

Great read Raza.  Posted on my Facebook.

Thanks!

[J86]

Maybe to the day. I think I signed up for that forum just before I turned 16, so it's been at least ten years.

Pretty wild how long some of us have been interacting thru this site (and C/D)

[J86]

btw- on your "Information page."  In the "About Me", you have "Automobear,com".  I assume you meant "Automobear.com"?

[Raza]

btw- on your "Information page."  In the "About Me", you have "Automobear,com".  I assume you meant "Automobear.com"?

Yup.  Hard to tell the difference on the edit page, thanks for pointing it out.  Fixed.

[Raza]

Pretty wild how long some of us have been interacting thru this site (and C/D)

Yeah, I have close, personal friends who I have known for around half the time I've known of you.

[TBR]

There aren't very many non-family members I have stayed connected with as long as I have stayed connected with you all.

[AutobahnSHO]

There aren't very many non-family members I have stayed connected with as long as I have stayed connected with you all.

+1

[rohan]

So-so writing in a trashy novel sort of way (which can be fun) but the topic start looks good.  Have a feeling you'll work it out- should be fun to follow.  

[Cookie Monster]

I don't know man, that snippet didn't really entice me to click on the link...

[Laconian]

Get your self a cheap domain host. accelerationtherapy.com isn't taken yet.

+5

I like the content a lot though.

[sportyaccordy]

Good stuff, I hope you stick with it

[mzziaz]

Cool! Is it allowed to troll the blog a bit?

[Laconian]

I'll be the Classy Pearlescent White Cadillac troll.

[cawimmer430]

Since when do you drive a BMW Z4? 

Nice blog. Will read the article later.

[Raza]

Since when do you drive a BMW Z4? 

Nice blog. Will read the article later.

Over two weeks now!