Evan Lovett and his "LA in a Minute" annoys me with his politically correct genuflection to indigenous Indian population which often consists of a single or two photo of Indian women standing together unnamed, not doing anything. They are pictured wearing Indian dress or a necklace of beads, and we're supposed to genuflect to that. And it's also asking the viewer to skip over 500 years of local and European history along with your own family history Okay, what about the people who actually built the cities, not lived in huts or crushed corn at the riverbed who remain nameless. But Levitt has to Marx up every narrative about LA, performing his best anti-ICE, pro-immigration information warfare that he can. Explains why he's so dull.
"Five Miles from San Berdoo," Jane Russell.
This essay by Joan Didion shook me when I first read it because 30 years ago. I'd always thought of San Bernardino as a sleepy town by which, around which you would drive to get to Vegas or Salt Lake City or Big Bear or access 395 north to the High Sierra's. It was never a point of destination for me or our family that I could remember.
1. "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream," Joan Didion, 1967.
2. The Great California Exodus, Tom Gray, September 2012.
3. California and the End of White America, Ron Unz, 1999.
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