Crumb Theory
“A dizzying array of suburban sameness paired with a Latin side dish, a splash of yup and garnished with a sun-kissed and cool sky.” This is Orange County California. Not quite Los Angeles, not Fiji, and certainly not Australia. But for the course of the next week it’s my official home. I’m the lucky, and very appreciative, guest of my web designer and his lovely wife. Somehow, they agreed to be gracious hosts for the week and let me share in a slice of their eclectic Orange county lives. So, we’ve raced RC cars, played canasta, stolen donuts, cooked homemade Italian, cleaned up dog piss and caught up on the past. Isn’t life grand?
So what is my impression of this place? Well, all of this Orange countyness reminds me of some very appropriate Bugs Bunny wisdom. “It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live here.” That pretty much sums up the whole of sprawling LA for me. Then again, I live in Seattle, that temperate temple of rotten weather, bad traffic and cynical clinical depressants full of coffee. Yeah, I’m thinking it’s time to put myself in the market for a new home. And speaking of Seattle, I now have a new favorite website – www.seattlesucks.com
Genius. Pure genius.