Agreed about L.A. having an inexhaustible supply of hidden goodies. I think. See, what bugged me (okay, ONE of the things that bugged me, all the "pretty" people at the Whole Foods in Brentwood bugged me too) about the place during my summer there a couple years back was that I was always in my car.
Now, I'm okay with cars, and I like driving. But they do make it very hard to find the hidden goodies. Often I'd catch sight of a hidden goody but wouldn't be in a position to be able to take advantage of it at the moment (often because I was seeing it down below somewhere from up on a freeway overpass) and then could never find it again. I was always catching glimpses of places that looked like they had potential, but when you're zooming by it's hard to tell, and there's only so much circling back, parking, and checking it out that you can do. So I also sort of have a suspicion that my impression of lots of hidden goodies was inflated by false positives.
Here in NYC I'm always on foot, so I can more easily sieze the oppurtunity to take a detour and discover the cool shit all the time. Plus, quirky/deranged people on foot are MUCH more amusing/interesting than quirky/deranged people in the car in front of or beside you. That old woman who once told me "stay on your side, stupid" made me laugh, but if we had been in cars I would probably have been seeing red. Plus, no lines for gas.
And there it is in 5, too. Christ, I suck. (Or ogged has been reediting the post and comments to mess with my mind. Those crafty counterintelligence maneuvers!.)
Ah, forgot to reply to Mitch. Yes, agreed on the driving thing. It's much harder to just go explore in L.A. You have to have a source of information, which sucks. I too prefer places that can be walked.
So, L.A. I've been a bunch of times, as Ex basically grew up their.
Whatever floats your boat, man.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 1-05 8:12 PM
Fortunately, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 1-05 8:13 PM
Sneaky, ogged, sneaky.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 1-05 8:13 PM
Give a guy a chance to read over his post.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 1-05 8:14 PM
I believe there's an error you hanve't yet discovered.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 2:28 AM
Agreed about L.A. having an inexhaustible supply of hidden goodies. I think. See, what bugged me (okay, ONE of the things that bugged me, all the "pretty" people at the Whole Foods in Brentwood bugged me too) about the place during my summer there a couple years back was that I was always in my car.
Now, I'm okay with cars, and I like driving. But they do make it very hard to find the hidden goodies. Often I'd catch sight of a hidden goody but wouldn't be in a position to be able to take advantage of it at the moment (often because I was seeing it down below somewhere from up on a freeway overpass) and then could never find it again. I was always catching glimpses of places that looked like they had potential, but when you're zooming by it's hard to tell, and there's only so much circling back, parking, and checking it out that you can do. So I also sort of have a suspicion that my impression of lots of hidden goodies was inflated by false positives.
Here in NYC I'm always on foot, so I can more easily sieze the oppurtunity to take a detour and discover the cool shit all the time. Plus, quirky/deranged people on foot are MUCH more amusing/interesting than quirky/deranged people in the car in front of or beside you. That old woman who once told me "stay on your side, stupid" made me laugh, but if we had been in cars I would probably have been seeing red. Plus, no lines for gas.
Posted by Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 4:29 AM
SB, are you talking about the misuse of "enormity"? I fear that has gone the way of "beg the question."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 6:48 AM
So "enormity" should be parsed as "e-norm-ity", the quality of being outside norms?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:13 AM
the misuse of "enormity"
I did not know this. Learn something every day...
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:15 AM
Oh, 'hanve't'. Was that there last time?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:20 AM
And there it is in 5, too. Christ, I suck. (Or ogged has been reediting the post and comments to mess with my mind. Those crafty counterintelligence maneuvers!.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:21 AM
11, ogged has threatened to do that to me.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:53 AM
I haven't changed anything here. That typo was there originally, and there it will stay.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:57 AM
Ah, forgot to reply to Mitch. Yes, agreed on the driving thing. It's much harder to just go explore in L.A. You have to have a source of information, which sucks. I too prefer places that can be walked.
And why aren't you in Greece yet?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 3:44 PM