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Ever since the simple post up above, pointing to California, and my, in turn, noting that the ENTIRE Left Coast isn't Cali, one of Heinlein's old short stories has been in my mind.
In 1940, Heinlein wrote a short titled "--and he built a crooked house--".
Ever since I first read that short in about 1958, the first few paragraphs of it have stuck in my mind, and probably colored my view of California. Thing is, I don't think they are too far wrong.
OK, had to get that out. Sorry. 
Back to ranting about "legal." :D
Tomas
Ever since the simple post up above, pointing to California, and my, in turn, noting that the ENTIRE Left Coast isn't Cali, one of Heinlein's old short stories has been in my mind.
In 1940, Heinlein wrote a short titled "--and he built a crooked house--".
Ever since I first read that short in about 1958, the first few paragraphs of it have stuck in my mind, and probably colored my view of California. Thing is, I don't think they are too far wrong.
Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world.
They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to California as the focus of the infection. Californians stoutly maintain that their bad reputation is derived solely from the acts of the inhabitants of Los Angeles County. Angelenos will, when pressed, admit the charge but explain hastily, "It's Hollywood. It's not our fault—we didn't ask for it; Hollywood just grew."
The people in Hollywood don't care; they glory in it. If you are interested, they will drive you up Laurel Canyon "—where we keep the violent cases." The Canyonites—the brown-legged women, the trunks-clad men constantly busy building and rebuilding their slap-happy unfinished houses—regard with faint contempt the dull creatures who live down in the flats, and treasure in their hearts the secret knowledge that they, and only they, know how to live.
Lookout Mountain Avenue is the name of a side canyon which twists up from Laurel Canyon. The other Canyonites don't like to have it mentioned; after all, one must draw the line somewhere!
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Robert Anson Heinlein - "--and he built a crooked house--"
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/clas...heinlein1.html
They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to California as the focus of the infection. Californians stoutly maintain that their bad reputation is derived solely from the acts of the inhabitants of Los Angeles County. Angelenos will, when pressed, admit the charge but explain hastily, "It's Hollywood. It's not our fault—we didn't ask for it; Hollywood just grew."
The people in Hollywood don't care; they glory in it. If you are interested, they will drive you up Laurel Canyon "—where we keep the violent cases." The Canyonites—the brown-legged women, the trunks-clad men constantly busy building and rebuilding their slap-happy unfinished houses—regard with faint contempt the dull creatures who live down in the flats, and treasure in their hearts the secret knowledge that they, and only they, know how to live.
Lookout Mountain Avenue is the name of a side canyon which twists up from Laurel Canyon. The other Canyonites don't like to have it mentioned; after all, one must draw the line somewhere!
...
Robert Anson Heinlein - "--and he built a crooked house--"
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/clas...heinlein1.html
Back to ranting about "legal." :D
Tomas
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