How do they say "fuck you" in Los Angeles?"Trust me"
Los Angeles is a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep apart from a small downtown not yet two centuries old and a few other pockets of ancientry. It is an instant townscape.
Los Angeles is a city never designed at all, for it was, after all, named after angels, who traditionally do not travel through space but simply manifest themselves elsewhere.
Los Angeles is a city full of nonsense and delusion and egomania... a city where they think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.
Los Angeles began as a small town named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula."
Reno is farther west than Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
Los Angeles is a city of dreadful joy where thought is barred and conversation is unknown.
More hot dogs are consumed by Los Angeles residents than any other city
Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.
Los Angeles is a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to san francisco.
Directionality is sometimes counterintuitive --- If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.