Type 2 diabetes seems like a pretty steep punishment for being bad at horseshoes.

They call it a Scott Walker.

Doesn't that old guy running the bait shop look like Donny Most?

Oh yeah. We usually park at the Zoo and take the shuttle.

Is it a golf resort? The kind where people, like, say, a certain president, might have an accident? Of the pants kind, maybe?

Maaaybe a gas station in the woods.

Wait, Sylvan Esso is a band/musician? I thought he was the guy Diego Luna played in Rogue One.

Oh yeah, the 10 is terrible. The 210 is so much better. Stay off the 60 if you treasure your sanity.

Hey, I'm one of those things! Where do I sign up?

There's a special hotel just for folks who want to do that in Bern.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

LA is definitely a place you go to, rather than through. I'll give you that. But I'd walk back the gross and boring to about 40%

And when you factor in the sheer joy of having a picnic dinner at the Bowl, man alive, that's nice!

You might want to fly. SF to LA on Amtrak will eat up about 12 hours. It'll be beautiful, though, as the tracks run close to the Pacific, and you might even be able to break up your trip with a night in Santa Barbara. Buy a book at Chaucer's for the rest of the ride.

There's your problem right there, only focusing on the pimps and CHUDs. Walking around Griffith Park, seeing a concert at Disney Hall or the Hollywood Bowl, surveying the west side, and a few hundred years of art, from the Getty Center, late night dinner and drinks in Koreatown, a browse through Amoeba Music or The…

I'd say there's a fair bit of the early Protestant justifications for the behavior of the merchant classes from whom they derived a lot of their support in their struggles against the Roman Catholic Church thrown in, too.

It is pretty amazing how much more NorCal thinks about SoCal than the other way around.

And public housing? Hah!

If God, in His infinite wisdom, didn't want them to be rich, He wouldn't have given them all that money in the first place.

It's different from the Bay Area, but not bad different. We have great museums, a vibrant food scene, fun venues to see live music, and some outstanding revival cinemas, like the New Beverly and Cinefamily. It's a 90 minute plane ride from SFO and OAK, and can make for a fun weekend adventure. Come on down!