Of Old Dogs and New Tricks

Of Old Dogs and New Tricks

When I was young, I looked with bemused tolerance on older people who resisted new technologies and weren't interested in keeping up with current developments. And yet many of the great enthusiasms of my youth are either dying, now, or transmogrifying horrifyingly before my very eyes:

*The trend to small, light, efficient cars (I loved sports cars as a kid, readCar & Driverlike it was scripture, and believed, O misguided soul that I was, that the future was bright): now dissolving in an appalling and remorseless trend towards vans and, worse, hulking "sport ultility vehicles" which are neither sporty nor particularly utilitarian. No sooner was the war against station wagons won than we get...this; our roadways clotted with bastardizedtrucks. Honestly, not in my wildest imaginings thirty years ago (as I soaked up Patrick Bedard in study hall) could I have conceived of anything as tasteless and misbegotten as a Lincoln Navigator.
*Movies as ar...