Hepcat feels vindicated. Actually, I made that up. But he does think that Bloomberg’s decision to cancel all parking tickets from the day after the Valentine’s Day snowstorm was reasonable. Very reasonable. And it shows that Bloomberg is listening to his 311 calls.

Because there were a lot of pissed off people.

Hepcat grew up in California on a 300 acre farm. They never throw out cars on that farm. His uncle kept a barn full 1959 Chevrolets. "He had about 60 of those Chevy’s with the big monster fins on them," Hepcat says.

His other uncle kept a barn full of Porsches. Hepcat is a Porsche man.

So, parking wasn’t much of an issue for Hepcat’s family. But after being in New York for almost 30 years, he is starting to get used to alternate side of the street parking. "It’s very annoying but they do need to clean the streets."

Hepcat likes cars a lot. But he thinks that they’re more interesting as cultural artifacts than as transportation. This surprises me as he’s traveled cross country by car more than twenty times.

Thing is, he just doesn’t like driving in New York. Consequently, the only time he uses the car is for moving things that are too heavy to carry (like Teen Spirit’s mega bass amp) or leaving town. And he also uses the car to move it to the other side of the street every week or so.

We almost never use the car to get around Brooklyn. That’s what car service’s are for. And subways and buses, of course.