ecl@hocsj.UUCP (09/30/84)
I recently sent in an article including the following: > >> Comments on the Olympic Closing Ceremonies >> by Mark R. Leeper >> >> I finally got a chance to see the closing ceremony of the >>Olympics. I had been told about it, with its flying saucer and its >>alien, and had been curious, but I had not seen it until just the >>other night. I have some comments to make on what I saw. First of >>all, I suppose this is the sort of thing you expect in Los Angeles, >>as I said in one of my articles elsewhere. Los Angeles is movie crazy >>and assumes the rest of the world is also. That is how they came >>to put a little piece of science fiction film tradition into the >>Olympics. To the mind of an Angeleno, there was nothing out of >>place about putting a little piece of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and DAY THE >>EARTH STOOD STILL into the ceremonies. >> To which I got the response: >Alright, that's ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > ><FLAME ON!> > >Just where do all you Eastern-type snobs get off indicting EVERYBODY >in LA as entertainment-crazy, full-of-hype, wild-eyed maniacs? The >people around here are so proud to be on the East Coast and close to >New York and "civilization" and culture that I'm surprised there aren't >more reports than there are of people here drowning to death during >rainstorms because they've got their noses stuck so high in the air. > And 32 lines of angry response later: > >Have you ever been out to LA or SF or SD or Port. or Sea? I thought he was never going to ask. I usually refer to myself as being a misplaced Californian. My parents still live in Mt. View, CA, near Stanford, where I went to school. As for Los Angeles being "movie crazy," that is not necessarily a derogatory term. Lots of guys I know refer to themselves as girl-crazy and see nothing wrong with that. I myself consider myself to be movie-crazy (I run a bi-weekly film festival out of my house; I write a lot of film reviews for the AT&T science fiction notice, including a recent article in which I reviewed every film I saw over a three and a half day weekend, the total came to 26 films.) and used the term more with awe than with scorn. >I could go on, but it is pointless to try and convince so many >narrow-minded pointy-headed Easterners that the New Yorker is not the >place to turn to for a map of the world. All I can say is that I like >people in LA a lot better than I do people in New Jersey or New >York, and I think everyone east of the Mississippi should be shot. >(Me included, for coming out here in the first place.) I thought >people out here were pretty decent; they aren't. The East may have >more going for it when it comes to the actual cities, but when it >comes to people, > > L.A.'s The Place > >Let's hear it for the West Coast! >Comments welcomed as soon as I get into my fireproof suit, flames >from ignorant twits who have never been out to the West Coast to >dev/null. I love California and if I could convince my wife that it isn't going to all fall into the Pacific that is where I would be living. Though not in LA where it is too darn hot. I'd live on the San Francisco-San Jose Penninsula where you can get Mediterranean climate. Also, I think people from this area are more calm, less paranoid about life. Less prone to calling people names like "pointy-headed Easterners." As for the saucer, it was the only thing I found at all interesting about the Olympics. I just was noting its incongruity and how I did not like the message of the alien. (Evelyn C. Leeper for) Mark R. Leeper ...ihnp4!lznv!mrl
faustus@ucbcad.UUCP (10/06/84)
San Fransisco has a "Mediterrean" climate??? Ha ha ha.... Wayne
wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (10/09/84)
San Francisco's weather is like Cretes'. Isn't that where all the cretins come from?:-).