If you know Los Angeles well, you must know that there are specific areas and places that remain attractive. My wife and I visited both Getty museums as well as the Norton Simon in Pasadena, and spent most of our time in Brentwood, Santa Monica, and Pasadena. We went to an outstanding concert of Afghan music, saw a movie (The Eagle, unfortunately not good, at the technically superb Arclight theater complex), heard jazz at the lovely Vibrato Grill near the top of Beverly Glen Canyon.
I have to acknowledge, though, that the traffic and parking problems were often maddening.
Green Mamba,
I'm glad to hear from you again. In my next post, I'll offer a brief impression of "La-la Land."
Olympus, where the abode of the gods stands firm and unmoving forever, they say, and is not shaken with winds nor spattered with rains, nor does snow pile ever there, but the shining bright air stretches cloudless away, and the white light glances upon it.
— Homer, The Odyssey, Book VI (Richmond Lattimore translation)
RARA TEMPORUM FILICITATE, UBI SENTIRE QUAE VELIS ET QUAE SENTIAS DICERE LICET
Rare is the felicity of the times, when you can think what you like and speak what you think.
— Tacitus, The History, I.i
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THE GOLD STANDARD
Lawrence Auster: He has passed on, leaving chronicles of liberal and neo-conservative folly and offering a traditionalist conservative cure.
Belmont Club: Whatever you know about geopolitics, Richard Fernandez and many of his commenters are two steps ahead of you.
Steve Sailer: Thinking the unthinkable, saying the unsayable.
Mark Steyn: In a class of his own for the amount of wit he can pack into a single article. A programmed liberal's worst nightmare.
Beyond the Veil: Links galore to web pages about paranormal consciousness and phenomena.
Association TransCommunication: For millennia, religions and mediums have spoken for the dead. Now, they speak for themselves.
MONEY
Zero Hedge: Everything you need to confirm your worst fears about the economy.
Market Folly: Learn from the hedge fund titans as they gain, or lose, hundreds of millions.
Charles Hugh Smith: "Consumerism is psychological/spiritual junk food ... well-being is increased by everything that cannot be commoditized by a market economy or financialized by a cartel-state financial machine -- friendship, family, community, self-cultivation -- rather than by acquiring more."
5 comments:
Dude, you're visiting the hellhole on your __vacation__? What for?
You seem to really like Cali!
Would that be called masochism? ;)
Check out the latest post on my blog. ):
Looking forward to reading your impressions of la-la land, which is where I live.
Maria and yih,
If you know Los Angeles well, you must know that there are specific areas and places that remain attractive. My wife and I visited both Getty museums as well as the Norton Simon in Pasadena, and spent most of our time in Brentwood, Santa Monica, and Pasadena. We went to an outstanding concert of Afghan music, saw a movie (The Eagle, unfortunately not good, at the technically superb Arclight theater complex), heard jazz at the lovely Vibrato Grill near the top of Beverly Glen Canyon.
I have to acknowledge, though, that the traffic and parking problems were often maddening.
Green Mamba,
I'm glad to hear from you again. In my next post, I'll offer a brief impression of "La-la Land."
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