I wrote>> Luckily, L.A. isn't as bad as Bladerunner yet. Of course, I live in a >> pretty good place... Sam writes: >My experience of LA is limited to the areas around the bus and train stations. >Kinda scary. People vomiting in the streets. A Salvadorean cabbie told me that >there a lot of sweatshops around the Greyhound station. I did make it out to >Venice once. Not bad beaches in LA. Downtown reminded me a lot of Latin >American cities; crowded, dirty, aggressive and corny with bad salsa music >blasting from every nook and cranny. That's part of L.A. too. Though I think you missed how Venice Beach is a lot like downtown with sand. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
