My first job was mostly cutting and crushing lemons at fairs. It was a weird first job, but it was a good one. Decently hard work, little money, and long hours in the summer. But I can make a killer lemon shake up with various liquors…
Speaking of lemons… Ever heard of the 24 Hours of LeMons? I’ll get back to that…
Jalopnik is probably one of my top 5 blogs. What can I say? I love cars. I grew up reading Autoweek and the other major rags, but I’ve embraced the blog in a big way. Despite Jalopnik being a rather important part of my blog subscription, I’ve been increasingly annoyed of late by it.
Like anything that anyone has a passion towards, there’s things you like and dislike… I love Jalopnik’s quick reporting all year round on consumer offerings and the prototypes at and around auto shows. I don’t like certain cars here and there, but that’s all personal preference.
What really gets me pissed is the constant coverage of the 24 Hours of LeMons (link)… Not the 24 hours of Le Mans (the world famous endurance race in France that I blogged about earlier), but LeMons as in a bunch of older model cars put through a specific race. These races happen regularly, but it’s just crap features for what I consider a top notch car blog.
As someone who detests NASCAR, I’d rather read about that bastard of a race series than LeMons. Hell… There’s probably more coverage on LeMons in the past two years than IRL and F1 combined… That’s total crap…
The sole writer responsible for these posts usually has a good group of reoccurring post themes (I love his “Down on the Street” posts), but these LeMons posts have been more than annoying enough to make me want to write about it here and maybe send a letter on to the editor in chief.
Maybe I just don’t get it. But I do get that it’s getting nice outside… So I’ll have to make some lemon shake ups soon…