I'm in freakin Los Angeles again

[WilliamPitt]

*koff koff*

It was 18 degrees in Boston when I left, so I guess I shouldn't gripe. But damn, the air here is yellow.

[SOteric]

1. Give NSMA a kiss and a hug for me

and remember that Seattle rocks and the air is clean.

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. its freezing in new york so i cant summon sympathy for thee

:hug:

[Trajan]

3. Flying into LA ....

Like dipping an airplane in pea soup ....

[devilgrrl]

64. I hear that about Denver a lot...

and Houston, Texas.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Arlo says hey

Arlo Guthrie - "Coming into Los Angeles"

Coming in from London from over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flyin' everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer

Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of ki's
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister customs man

There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
No, he couldn't look much stranger
Walkin' in the hall with his things and all
Smiling said he was the Lone Ranger

Hip woman walkin' on the moving floor
Tripping on the escalator
There's a man in the line and she's blowin' his mind
Thinking that he's already made her

[AlCzervik]

5. I hate LA, sorry you have to be there.

[Jack_Dawson]

6. And it's 75. Wahhhh

:beer:

[catzies]

22. Yeah. And the soft, slight sea breeze wafting in. The view from PCH

this morning was dazzling. The Channel Islands were fully visible and I saw dolphins cavorting while I was driving to work.

:hi: to San Diego from Santa Barbara!

[Jack_Dawson]

24. Back Atcha!

:hi:

And thanks for Greg Ostertag (not).

[catzies]

35. Sorry you got 'Tag, but I guess somebody had to.

And how fucked-up is this Kobe and Karl thing?

[Jack_Dawson]

43. Kobe's being his usual beotch self

I'm sure Karl wuz just goofing around.

[catzies]

48. Shaq even said "If you don't like Karl, there's something wrong with you."

So glad the Sonics spanked them last night. Kobe's not only a beotch, he's Ray Allen's beotch!

And I missed all but the last 9 seconds of Clips/Jazz. x( I hate it when that happens. I was in a meeting I couldn't get out of, and the whole time I was sitting and thinking, "I'd rather be watching BASKETBALL!"

In two weeks I go to Clips/Jazz here. Come to Staples and I'll buy you a beer.

[Jack_Dawson]

49. Ohhhh...can't make that one.

Come to Clips/Kings and I'll buy YOU one, yes?

:beer:

[catzies]

52. Sked says that's 1/17! Do you have your tix? I hate nosebleeds at Staples

And the next one is Mar. 19.

Tonight's Jazz/Suns game is gonna be awesome! Read the Page 2 story Steve Nash for MVP:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neel/041215

[GRLMGC]

25. That was your drive?

Why on earth would you drive that far? I'm sure it was a beautiful drive though. When I drive home for the weekend from SB to L.A., I can't help but look at the water (driving hazard!)

[catzies]

34. I don't technically live in LA but a little further north-the next county

And I work in Carpinteria, just across the county line.

Southbound 101 though is better for whale-watching. Isn't it cool we can see whales from our cars?? I've seen them off the La Conchita beach.

[Trajan]

50. Fuck .....

My dream ....

Living on the central coast anear SB, Carpenteria or the Laguna Coast down south ....

If I ever get rich ....................

[Beaverhausen]

7. Wow. always nice when someone arrives and immediately starts whining

Hope you have fun here. It is kind of a great place but hey...you could go back to Boston. :eyes:

[GRLMGC]

8. Haha

Agreed. I hate when people start bagging on L.A. It's not like we want you here. Too many people as it is.

[Jack_Dawson]

10. "It's not like we want you here" LOL n/t

[DBoon]

15. If all those whining out-of-state people would just leave for good

There would be no traffic on the freeway and no smog in the air.

Sort of like after the rapture.

[ronnykmarshall]

39. I hate that shit

It's seems that it's cool to bash L.A. around here.

[GRLMGC]

41. Ugh

Yeah, it's REALLY annoying.

[Champ]

42. I LOVE LA

Now, is it cool to bash Mesa? :D I hope so because IT SUCKS.

[GRLMGC]

44. Really?

It didn't seem bad when I went to visit a few months ago? It was just really hot.

[Champ]

46. Not really

Just high robbery, theft rates. People who like to yell and throw shit from moving vehicles. :eyes: Most of the time it gets boring as there is not many things to do, which makes me wonder.. what did you do when you were over here?

on edit - If I were to move I'd probaly miss living here strangely enough.

on edit - LOTS OF STRANGE people here, I mean STRANGE. I could tell you some stories.

[GRLMGC]

47. I have to admit I wasn't there for that long

and I witnessed a knife fight. We were actually in Scottsdale but we went to Mesa to watch fireworks or something. I can see how it could get boring. I go to school in Santa Barbara and its nice but I get really bored.

On edit: Oh wait, that was Tempe. I know someone who lives in Mesa though and I'm sure its not THAT bad.

[Champ]

51. You're probaly right

Speaking of knife fights, someone got stabbed in an apartment complex nearby here about a couple weeks ago. Mesa is a big town, I've barely covered portions of it. Mostly West Mesa. It is not bad overall, it just has it's problem areas. I think where I lived the past 6-7 years clouds my overall judgment, in a 1-2 mile radius from here there is so much crime. Walking around after 11pm is simply not smart unless you got a weapon, that is when most of the troublemaking takes place. I know some who've been a victim of violent crime, I guess I'm lucky because the worse that has happened to me was having a gun pulled out on me during the daytime on a quiet street(the street I live on in fact) and had a knife pulled out on me as well.

[RagingInMiami]

70. Mesa

what is their motto? "Great People, Quality Service."
Boring.

[Shakespeare]

45. Heh...try being from the south!

And I'm from the south AND subsequently lived in LA! :7

[Cuban_Liberal]

9. Quit kvetching!

Some of us in the Midwest are freezing our buns off. Just buy an oxygen tank and enjoy the 75-degree weather.

:P

[Stephanie]

11. Where are you staying?

What neighborhood?

[kmla]

12. Keep in mind that they are trying to make the pollution particles

so large that they won't fit into your nostrils.

And keep singin' in your head the Brady Bunch version of "Sunshine Day". Things will get better.

[Lex]

13. Air . . .

[mitchtv]

14. My condolences same miserable weather in Palm Springs, only sunnier

the air, unfortunately, is clean. Gotta get out of this fucked up place . Maybe NYC?

[Lexingtonian]

16. ah, yes

Get a rental car and a Thomas Guide and get thee up PCH to somewhere north and west of Santa Monica. I recommend Zuma Beach and Point Dume at sunset.... Or Mulholland Highway west of Malibu Canyon Road, say the stretch west of Malibu Lake.... Or Lunada Bay, in Palos Verdes, if there's a full moon up and some wind.

Eh, just have fun.

[catzies]

38. Here's the view up PCH in Ventura County looking north. Ahhhhhhhhh

[Lexingtonian]

54. Hey, that looks like Point Mugu!

:sigh:

[catzies]

55. That's because it IS Pt. Mugu! Glad you like it.

:hi:

[Lexingtonian]

58. Oh, I love it

Spent some wonderful times there, years ago. Never saw that bit of sandy beach that's in your photo, though...it's all rocks with seagull droppings at the water's edge for about 10 miles east of the Point, as I recall.

Oh, SoCal...my heart's home country. The Other Promised Land, in rather too many ways. Hope to be there again this spring after years of regretting my moving away.

[nini]

17. ahhhhhh quit your bitchen

I'm stuck here all the time!

it's not smoggy on the coast though, but if you look east today.. yuck

[flamingyouth]

18. Lucky you!

I'd be at La Cabanita in Glendale tonight having a margarita (or two) and some of their yummy food. :9

[Beaverhausen]

21. That's a great place. I'm taking my nephew there this weekend.

He is visiting from Ohio. And he won't be complaining about the smog!!!

[klebean]

27. hey neighbor

I'm in Atwater Village and Grittith park is literally my backyard (there's
a wee swath allocated to the park over the freeway and across the river).

An early morning walk above the observatory is great on the lungs, before
the air inversion sends the fumes of the freeway wafting skyward.

Mr. Pitt - w/luck we could get some rain while you're here, and the you'll see
how glorious the daybreak is following...
I love LA. (thank you Mr. Newman)

[GRLMGC]

29. Me too

:) When I get outta school, I'm coming back here for sure. I either wanna live in Silverlake, Atwater, Santa Monica, or Studio City. I'm from Glendale originally.

[Beaverhausen]

31. Hi Neighbor to you!!! I take walks in Griffith Park all the time

It's a nice slice of green and beauty, flora and fauna for us to enjoy!

:hi:

[klebean]

40. indeed!

I have a nose that can smell a rancid washcloth from fifty yards,
so I LOVE walking the park. I love the neighborhoods here. I lived
for two years w/out a car in Los Feliz and could walk or take a short
bus ride to the observatory, to the shops; it was great to live like that
in the midst of this megalopolis - it was a very "village" experience.

Now, I'm 10 minutes from downtown, but all my neighbors are horsey's
and pony's (flies, too). When the air cools in the evening it kind of sux
b/c the freeway fumes hang low. But, what the hell - I smoke my camel
shortdogs on the porch in the evening and that smells infinitely
better...ha!

[GOPisEvil]

19. A smoker bitching about the air?

;-)

[NV Whino]

20. You should have lived there 20 years ago

The air has actually improved.

[catzies]

23. Will, we don't trust air we can't see.

"If you can't see the buttons on your shirt, it's a first-stage smog alert!"

[Misunderestimator]

26. Hey... if you're still out there after next Tuesday...

give NSMA a ring... I'll be out there too.

[radwriter0555]

28. The air is NOT yellow here, it's a GREAT beautiful day here in Los Angeles

after the chill and clouds in recent weeks...

You're just JEALOUS.

[paula777]

33. Right ... I'm looking out the window right now and the sky is very blue

[Radical Activist]

30. freakin Los Angeles is so much more better than regular Los Angeles

Have fun while you're there.

[Guaranteed]

32. L.A. is the worst city in the world.

I'm sorry, man.

[devilgrrl]

62. Haven't travelled much have we?

:mad:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

36. NO ASSHOLE THAT'S FOG

If you're in LA and don't call me...I'll get SKittles to kick your ass

[Bertha Venation]

37. Oh, what I wouldn't GIVE to breathe visible air again . . .

Even the thought of smog can't dampen my homesickness.

[Merrick]

53. Sorry, that was me (blushing)

[democracy eh]

56. enjoys the freeways

28 lanes of traffic in 4 dimensions

[KurtNYC]

57. How does it feel to be one of the only people with a soul?

And road rage is a lifestyle there.

[ronnykmarshall]

59. Yes we are all just souless here.

Oh gotta go and reload my gun before the drive home. :eyes:

Nice stereotype.

[Logansquare]

60. What a nasty thing to say. Most New Yorkers have something you don't--

Class

[KurtNYC]

68. Perhaps what most NYers have is thicker skin

It was a joke, yeesh. And I said "one of the only" not "the only" bc I love my L.A. DUers.

If you have ever seen David Letterman riff on NYC stereotypes then you know we have a sense of humor about the good-natured abuse that comes our way.

As for the road rage, I stand by that. Didn't say it was everyone there but too many and it gets worse everytime I visit.

edit to add: The only place I have ever had a gun pulled on me in traffic or otherwise, is L.A. -- driving up the Conejo grade.

[Name removed]

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[ronnykmarshall]

69. I'm down with that!

:hi: devilgrrl

[jonnyblitz]

63. I lived in Long Beach for 2 years and didn't realize for the

longest time there were big hills in the distance until one day there wasn't as much "fog"(as NSMA calls it)as usual. :P

[paula777]

65. You're a sharp guy huh. Did you notice the ocean at all, or did you

fail to realize that too?

[jonnyblitz]

66. LOL...welllll....

since I was stationed onboard a navy ship I did notice the water...:P

I had a blast living there btw so no need to hissssssss.....

[ElsewheresDaughter]

67. don't breathe the air!

[Sandpiper]

71. I wonder, are there more Boston escapees in L.A. or vice versa?

I think we all know the answer to that one.

[Bouncy Ball]

72. Deleted by me

[meti57b]

73. Try cleaning your contacts... the air is perfectly clear out here.