Status Updates From Slouching Towards Bethlehem...

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” - p. 4

oh my god Didion is actually so irritating

I actually care less about Sacramento now than I did before reading this essay about Sacramento

“I could make promises to myself into other people, and there would be all the time the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.”

Joan Didion invented california

“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and just as the reliably, long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, it’s unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”