Comments on: LA – city of the nameless http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dcc http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95648 dcc Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:42:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95648 "Some Like It Out"? Is that the porn version of "Some Like It Hot"? “Some Like It Out”? Is that the porn version of “Some Like It Hot”?

]]> By: lplimac http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95637 lplimac Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:01:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95637 How is it that when an area goes from majority black to majority hispanic it's a loss of culture, a loss of identity? Same types of stories were told when MLK-Drew Hospital was going under, how it was because of the influx of poor MediCal and uninsured hispanics going there, ignoring how that a good number of blacks that used the same facilities (when they had to-Killer King is the name my co-workers that live in the area called it) were in the same economic boat. This kind of demographics change happens all the time and all the LA Times does is bemoan it like it's a bad thing... well maybe the new people aren't reading the LA Times so for them it is. How is it that when an area goes from majority black to majority hispanic it’s a loss of culture, a loss of identity? Same types of stories were told when MLK-Drew Hospital was going under, how it was because of the influx of poor MediCal and uninsured hispanics going there, ignoring how that a good number of blacks that used the same facilities (when they had to-Killer King is the name my co-workers that live in the area called it) were in the same economic boat. This kind of demographics change happens all the time and all the LA Times does is bemoan it like it’s a bad thing… well maybe the new people aren’t reading the LA Times so for them it is.

]]> By: srlucado http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95615 srlucado Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:09:09 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/la-city-of-the-nameless/#comment-95615 "Life in Los Angeles has gotten progressively worse and more anonymous..." Not just LA. Even here in Fort Worth, "Where the West begins" as Will Rogers said, it's increasingly generic. The western tradition is weakening; it's just one big suburb--chain restaurants, chain stores, traffic jams--in the middle of Texas heat. Which is okay for a lot of people, because some like it hot. Scott “Life in Los Angeles has gotten progressively worse and more anonymous…”

Not just LA. Even here in Fort Worth, “Where the West begins” as Will Rogers said, it’s increasingly generic. The western tradition is weakening; it’s just one big suburb–chain restaurants, chain stores, traffic jams–in the middle of Texas heat.

Which is okay for a lot of people, because some like it hot.

Scott

]]>