Richard Gralnik on thu 26 aug 99
Joyce,
Shhhhh!!! Geez, if people knew the truth about California and
Californians they'd all start moving here the day after seeing
the sun shine on the Rose Parade again.
The place is crowded enough already. If everyone east of
Lost Wages still thinks we're a problem-addled, earthquake
shook up bunch of hot tubbing lotus eaters they'll stay in
their tundra frozen/humidity bathed/tornado tossed/hurricane
blown/river flooded states (seems there are plenty of natural
disasters to go around) and not californicate California.
As Jerry Dunphy has been saying at the start of his news
broadcasts for decades, "From the desert to the sea to
the mountains, good evening."
Richard
At 12:19 PM 8/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
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California has problems, true; and has too many people, true....but
that's a wide brush dipped in a pot of ignorance you use when writing
off ALL of California.....from the Mexican border, San Diego, L.A., the
Mojave desert, the gold country, SanFran, all the towns of the Sierras,
Death Valley, Mt. Whitney, the hundreds of lakes and small lake
communities, the northern and southern beaches....don't really want more
people (until I meet them, that is, then want all of them)......but am
offended that no clayarter defends this position. What if we said this
about the Dakotas, the unbelievably stressed east coast, Oregon with its
cockamamie laws and total arrogance about Californians (until they meet
us, that is, then they're very cool).....guess it's just part of the
package of being one of the "golden people," that everybody feels they
can publicly make rude statements about a whole state's worth of
individuals. Each of us can only speak from our own experiences, but my
experience is pretty vast and I know a ton of extremely community-minded
people/artists/potters. Shame on you.
Joyce
In the Mojave
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