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Did you accidentally post this before it was done?

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Give him a break.

It’s the middle of the night in LA. Why’s he up writing?

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Because it's warmer in his closet.

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LOL! 😺

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Randy Newman wanted a satire, but ended up with a song/music video that any halfway competent Chamber of Commerce would kill for.

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Always thought the song was half-satire, half-serious. He was saying, "Yeah, this city sucks in many ways, but its ours, dang it! Plus the weather is good, the chicks are hot, and the Beach Boys are blasting on the radio!"

A person can be proud of the worst aspects of one's home because it makes it their's. "You couldn't have survived this like I did. It made me who I am."

Most movies about LA treat it that way. E.g. The Big Lebowski, which casts the headcases and weirdos of LA as if they're lovable indosyncratic but mostly harmless spacey hicks in a giant small town that nonetheless has a murder/kidnapping/toe-cutting problem. (The Cohens have a Capra-esque love of small-town strange-but-lovable characters, but like to put such characters in big cities, like in Lewbowski and The Hudsucker Proxy.)

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*theirs

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lol. Shut up, incestual pedo.

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So it's like "Born in the USA?"

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Your second home, the Second City would like a word with you...

https://www.secondcity.com/

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Is LA the capital city of comedy?

No.

That settles that.

Now, does the acquisition of Luka Dončić (and the imminent canonization and farewell tour number 1 for LeBron James) indicate a watershed moment for American sports superstars?

Will Cooper Flagg be next?

How does a “c” with a thingy on top sound?

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Like "ch".

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To expand on John's reply, both Cs sound like "ch"; the difference between them isn't part of English.

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As a non-American, blacks, Italians and Jews seem like the naturally funniest Americans.

Is LA particularly concentrated in either?

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Oh man, you are going to love this:

Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 46.9%

White (alone, not Hispanic or Latino): 28.9%

Asian (alone): 11.7%

Black or African American (alone): 8.3%

Two or more races: 3.3%

Other (alone): 0.7%

Native American (alone): 0.2%

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (alone): 0.1%

That's right, the centrr of gravity of LA is actually HISPANIC! You wouldn't know this, because our exquisitely liberal film and broadcast sector finds latinos completely incomprehensible. It's absurd. Like Christopher Walken's only good scene in Dune, interrogating the hubristic Baron about those few, mad Fremen wandering out there somewhere: "That's all you know--really?!"

The genuinely perceptive (except for his weird, naive politics) Seth McFarlane appears to be one of the few Angelenos aware of Hispanics and their general stone-facedness and inscrutability. He created Family Guy's "Consuela" cleaning lady character, stolidly wiping down everything with spray wash and a cloth (paved roads, eyeballs), refusing to be fired, answering every question"Si" or "No".

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The whole state of California makes me laugh…

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It might be the capital city of comedy media production as a side effect of being the capital city of media production, top comedians and hopefuls have long come here because of this, but New York City is the capital city of comedy. The density, pedestrian orientation, and mix of people creates far more hilarious situations per unit time than any other city in the US. LA can't compete. How many setups and straight lines per mile are there in LA traffic?

I moved to LA five years ago, and maybe it's my age or the pandemic, but I've found the people here to be the least humorous of any of the many cities I've lived in, except perhaps Pittsburgh. I've met one or two funny people and two who, once they know you, make a sincere effort. I also find people here are less willing to laugh. It's like even the civilians are trying to do the jaded comedian 'that's funny' instead of laughing. Or maybe I'm losing it. I swear I used to crack people up...wait, I still do so at work (remote) so yes, I blame LA.

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My personal favorite LA song is "Let's Ram it" by the 1986 LA Rams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ytL0VgrkkVU

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Unintentional comedy maybe

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Mitzi Shore, call your office!

https://infogalactic.com/info/Mitzi_Shore

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Infogalactic: For suckers too proud to use Wikipedia like the rest of us. Even Vox Day no longer uses it and he invented the damn thing

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lol. You mad, incestual pedo?

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So what is California Dreamin' about? Do tell.

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I don't know but I have what might be a better question: why were Paul Revere and The Raiders recording an anti-drug song ("Kicks") in 1966? I thought 1967 was the kick-off for the drug scene.

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1967 wasn't the kick-off, it was the first touch-down. Already by 1966 those in the know, knew what was going on.

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Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test recounts the adventures of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters: Their cross-country trip in the summer of 1964 in the psychedelically painted bus named Further (or Furthur) and the Acid Tests in the winter of 1965-66 with the Grateful Dead as house band. People who were there say that 1966 was the real Summer of Love and that the summer of 1967 was a dysfunctional mess.

In addition, since at least the late 40's heroin had been a scourge in the jazz scene and in the black ghettos in general.

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Google says:

The lyrics express the narrator's longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City. It is recorded in the key of C-sharp minor. "California Dreamin'" became a signpost of the California sound, heralding the arrival of the nascent counterculture era.

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Slightly off topic... Boy, Steve Sailer and John Densmore sure sound alike.Native Angeleno accents? Densmore grew up in Westwood.

https://youtu.be/X58jzqrfD1U?si=BKySXYVz_EYIDIlG

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