California

ghost

vacation

dad joke

light bulb joke

Canada

population

traffic

traffic jam

food truck

Los Angeles

New York City

is a place where the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here is where we run out of continent.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension... in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent. Joan Didion

is a place whose beaches are sun-drenched but so cold you come home with a frostbitten suntan.

is once-and-future America, and much that is newest and biggest in this country, both its best and worst, is concentrated along our western edge.

is a tragic country, like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

*An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

is a place where the only thing people read is the license plate in front of them.

The only thing Californians read is the license plate in front of them.

is a state where blondes are the state flower.

This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.

blonde

is a place where one loses one point of IQ every year.

It is a scientific fact that if you live in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

california, n.All

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