Yes, it’s Sunday.  And although technically a day of rest, I’ve chosen it to be the day I put pen to paper (well, you know what I mean) and write my weekly blog.

Blog.

Say it out loud.  Draw out the vowel.  Bloooooooggggg.  It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?  It sounds like the name of some Norse king from antiquity.  “King Blog of Denmark has attacked Jarl Erg of Rittenshumen!“.  Or, “King Blog has commanded all his subjects to set aside Sundays as their day of writing!”

You get the idea.  Yes, I think the word is somewhat stupid.  A made up word, as Kramer might say.

Yet here I am, writing my first one about how I want a flying car.

I’ve always wanted a flying car.  I am sure I’m not alone in this, as the idea of flying cars has been a mainstay of western literature and science fiction since at least the 1950’s.  Literally hundreds of major motion pictures have featured flying cars, and thousands of books have done the same.  (Author’s Note:  My novel First Epiphany of the Time Vandal, while employing the use of a time machine, did not feature a flying car.  Much to my shame.)  

The flyingcar-coveting public (that is not a typo – it is high time we joined the words flying and car into one word.  If they can do it with ‘web log’, I can do it with ‘flying car’) of the last century was certain that by the year 2000 we would all be zipping around like the Jetsons.

Yet here we sit in the year 2016, still stuck in traffic jam after traffic jam, breathing noxious cancer-causing exhaust fumes and listening to talk radio.  (One aside, why don’t they have those cancer warnings on the sides of cars like they have on packs of cigarettes?)  I, for one, am not happy with this turn of events.

I want my flying car.

And no, I don’t mean this:

I mean this:

That’s right, folks.  They’ve finally done it.

The flyingcar company Terrafugia claims its TF-X will be ready to take to the skies by 2018.  That’s just two years away, and only eighteen years later than the certain-to-exist year of 2000.

Yay, a flying car that might actually work!

Of course, there are some drawbacks.  You won’t actually fly it yourself.  You’ll input your destination, and the TF-X will take you there.  So don’t plan on joyriding or buzzing the neighbors vegetable garden.  But on the plus side, you’ll be able to get wasted during your trip!

It might be pricey, though.  By all indications it will set you back $261,000.  But I’m sure there will be easy credit terms.

After all, you’ll need to have a few bucks leftover to buy a bottle of Jagermeister for the trip.

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