Happy Easter: This weblog will be hidden until Monday.

Zero to sixty prose in two sentences: After reading David Carr’s profile (registration required, etc.) in today’s NYT of the LAT’s Dan Neil, winner of this year’s criticism Pulitzer for his, get this, car reviews, my curiousity was piqued. (By the way, I know of at least one of rexblog’s five readers who will think it clever David Carr was assigned this story.) So, I read his review today (registration required, ect.) of the Cadillac CTS-V sport sedan and decided his performance as a reviewer is turbocharged.

Quotes:

ONLY about 15% of Americans know how to drive a manual transmission. This is not surprising. Most Americans couldn’t find France on a map and couldn’t name the chief justice of the United States if William H. Rehnquist bit them on the face….

You might think that, what with gas prices rivaling Chanel No. 5’s, Cadillac’s timing in rolling out a performance division is a bit off, like Flo Ziegfeld’s Follies of 1931 or the Remington Typewriter catalog of 1985.

Varoom.

Spun Rice: I agree with Stuart Benjamin’s prediction on the Volokh Conspiracy weblog that the punditry we should expect related to Condi Rice’s testimony is, well, predictable. (Via Virginia Postrel.)

Forgive me, Dr. Stanley: I can’t think of a less likely candidate for a dance remix, but Skeewiff’s version of “Man of Constant Sorrow” is surprisingly good. (Please, no new “blue grass techno” genre, however.) According to Cory Doctorow, the group is making it available free and you can download it here (7.1MB MP3). (I just checked the band’s site and the song, “Where Art Thou,” is available free there also.)