From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
Subject: Re: Year of the Queer
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:16:59 GMT

In article <mattm-060193143254@mcmelmon.apple.com>, mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
> In article <1993Jan6.210052.24687@gordian.com>, mike@gordian.com (Michael
> A. Thomas) wrote:
> *West* Hollywood, yes - to people who live in and around
> The Greater La La Land Area.  *Hollywood* means *sleaze* to
> Angelenos and Hollywood to everyone else.  

  Well, aren't we part of sleazy?

> And outside of
> the Greater La La Land Area, very few would realize that
> West Hollywood was a ghetto unto itself.  It, and Palm Springs,
> are only "gay" to people in the know, whereas San Francisco
> is "gay" to a broader segment of the population.

  Oh I duno. Even *I* know that there's some village back there
in that apple city which has faggots galore. Do you suppose that
they don't realize that Hollywood is faggot central in Peoria?

> >   We're here, we're queer, and life's *faaaabulous* in La La Land.
> > Well sort of. But I certainly see my share of types that Arne was
> > talking about a while back.
> 
> But snookums - Arne *IS* a type...

  Well yes but, not *that* type. Not that I am either, but one only
has to go to West Street in the summer to see plenty o' *that* type.
In fact when I was young and nubile (really, I *was*) I even used to
go there too. Nowadays, if I put my queer card into the entrance gate
it eats it and I have to write for a new one. What a pain. I suppose
that some day I'll get the hang of crocheting and soap operas. 

> >   Er, which one is that? Berkeley or Marin?
> 
> Ohhhh, very good, very good.  I started to write "People's
> Commune*s* over the bridge*s* -  but, I figured you wouldn't
> know about Marin...

  Harrumph. You know all of us down here in Orange County keep
track of all of those damn People's Republics. I even know about
the People's Republic of Cambridge too.

> you wouldn't).  But you CANNOT PARK in San Francisco (the
> residents will, of course, demur

  Did I tell about my sort of parking adventure the time I
was there for InterOp? My brother and I decided to go to
North Beach for dinner. He claimed that the place we parked
was the only spot in the whole of North Beach, and I'll 
believe it. Not that it was a particularly good one; he
had to run the gauntlet up this 45 degree hill, doing
a right turn into a 3 foot wide alley on two wheels
applying the break *and* parking break to slow down on
another 45 degree slope. Only to find that his secret
"parking space" was half on a sidewalk, half in the 
alley. I hate driving with my brother -- I have plans
for a longer life then he does.
  While we were there we were looking down into the 
financial district on a blocked off street (Kearny?)
where some imbecile had parked where you aren't allowed
to. It really did look like a not particularly accurately
placed kick to the side of that truck would have set it
rolling toward the TransAmerica Building.

>  - but I, who was once a 
> resident of the San Fernando Valley, could get from Studio
> City to Woodland Hills for naked hot-tub parties in under half
> an hour *during* the evening rush; such a feat would be most
> difficult for non-residents to even conceive of as within
> the realm of possibilities, instead wondering why things
> got so terribly bad on the Ventura right around Sepulveda...)

  Let me guess. You had a tank which did 30 on the 101, traffic
or no?
-- 

		Michael Thomas	(mike@gordian.com)
	"I don't think Bambi Eyes will get you that flame thrower..."  
		-- Hobbes to Calvin
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