Escape From LA

[chezshay]

After driving through Beverly Hills and gawking at people on Rodeo Drive, after walking along Venice Beach and studying the artificially enhanced inhabitants, one thing has become clear to me

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[monzi5000]

You make a good point about Venice Beach and Rodeo Drive are superficial, and I totally agree with you. But LA is a fucking huge city. Most parts are nothing like Rodeo and Venice and Manhatten Beach and Sunset Blvd. I'm not the biggest fan of the area, but since I go to college here I've come to enjoy the taco trucks and cheap beer and gorgeous sunsets. You should have called me and I would have shown you the good spots in SoCal.

And last time I checked, NY is pretty superficial too. Gotta love our stumptown.

[monzi5000]

you're wack. Sunset Boulevard is the best place to score smack (or crack) in all SoCal. Echo Park (wha what?)...gotta give much love for da boys in the hood.

Eagle Rock=straight ghetto, no trippin' holmes

[chezshay]

You're absolutely right. I didn't get any chance to explore around Occidental but around Scripps, where I was dropping off Laura, it seemed really nice. It was a quaint area that existed in an entirely different world from Hollywood. I am probably being a little unfair to an entire city of millions based off a short exploration of a few areas that are notorious for being superficial, but I am certain (despite my lack of real LA experience) that I would be more insecure about my whole appearance if I lived in LA, but perhaps that's just one of the few disadvantages of living with good weather. In New York (which has all sorts of superficial issues a lot of which revolve around money rather than muscles ), at least people hide themselves behing many layers of clothing. No one in the Big Apple has to know if I have a six pack or not.

[lomsak]

Claremont is a nice little enclave of white suburban wealth completely isolated from the minorities who seem to populate the poorer sections of Los Angeles.