Comments on: Also I think marriage should be illegal for anyone under the age of 75. http://www.barbarellapsychadella.com/2009/09/15/also-i-think-marriage-should-be-illegal-for-anyone-under-the-age-of-75/ Becoming a Great Woman of Letters, one jello mold at a time. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ms. xandra http://www.barbarellapsychadella.com/2009/09/15/also-i-think-marriage-should-be-illegal-for-anyone-under-the-age-of-75/comment-page-1/#comment-5713 ms. xandra Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:36:52 +0000 http://www.barbarellapsychadella.com/?p=1467#comment-5713 Well, yes, and I spend a lot of time downtown (not because I need to, but because there are things there that I like to do and see), but conventional wisdom is that people don't do those things. And there are a lot of people in LA who would never dream of riding a bus, even though there are lots of us who do it. My comments above are less about reality than they are about how most people I know see the city. People complain that there is nothing downtown - I think everyone needs to be forced to walk around the Central Market and Broadway and the textile district and then maybe they'll notice that, yes, there is community there. And this attitude is changing slowly as the area gentrifies, but gentrification obviously brings its own problems, and I worry about the community that exists there being pushed out. Well, yes, and I spend a lot of time downtown (not because I need to, but because there are things there that I like to do and see), but conventional wisdom is that people don’t do those things. And there are a lot of people in LA who would never dream of riding a bus, even though there are lots of us who do it. My comments above are less about reality than they are about how most people I know see the city. People complain that there is nothing downtown – I think everyone needs to be forced to walk around the Central Market and Broadway and the textile district and then maybe they’ll notice that, yes, there is community there. And this attitude is changing slowly as the area gentrifies, but gentrification obviously brings its own problems, and I worry about the community that exists there being pushed out.

]]> By: Kariann http://www.barbarellapsychadella.com/2009/09/15/also-i-think-marriage-should-be-illegal-for-anyone-under-the-age-of-75/comment-page-1/#comment-5711 Kariann Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:14:50 +0000 http://www.barbarellapsychadella.com/?p=1467#comment-5711 Wait, don't you regularly use public transit in Los Angeles? The thing about Downtown: if you only need to get to the Mid-Wilshire district, Hollywood, and Pasadena, public transit works great and those hipsters who live there think the rest of LA (the entire west side, in fact) don't really know the true soul of the city. This has been a running joke since I was a college freshman. Also, I have taken the Amtrak to Santa Barbara and San Diego numerous times. It's awesome and I'm glad they showed that in the film. Wait, don’t you regularly use public transit in Los Angeles?

The thing about Downtown: if you only need to get to the Mid-Wilshire district, Hollywood, and Pasadena, public transit works great and those hipsters who live there think the rest of LA (the entire west side, in fact) don’t really know the true soul of the city. This has been a running joke since I was a college freshman.

Also, I have taken the Amtrak to Santa Barbara and San Diego numerous times. It’s awesome and I’m glad they showed that in the film.

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