Well,…Yeah!

Egrets, I’ve had a fewww…

Ahem, us eagles and ptarmigans are pretty lefty at our place, and have no association with them dumwits.

If you dont mind a little isolation, I like Long Beach penninsula in WA state. And Astoria, Oregon.

But back to LA – Topanga is becoming a little gentrified. More screenwriters and webpage designers moving in and buying cottages from the buckskinned guitar players. But its still good. The local school is a big center of the community.

Anyone here ever been to the Mermaid?

It’s a private home now that’s rented out for events. But it sure is beautiful.

I would be remiss not to point you towards Bellingham, WA.

It really is beautiful. I went to college there (now in Seattle). You really have to check it out.

They’re for tourists. I’m talking about real beers: I live, y’see, in the home town of Coopers Breweries, and they make some very fine pale ale and dark ale. Plus there are a number of good boutique breweries around here, and some particularly fine ones in Tassie.

Anyway, you’re just jealous ’cause you can’t lick your own bottom.

But, but, but — Castlemaine XXXX… Victoria Bitter… Fosters…
It’s OK for you, Qetesh, you’re a cat; but us humans who don’t lick our own butts have different ideas about what constitutes an acceptable flavour.

OK, there’s always Little Creatures.
[wanders downstairs to open a bottle of Little Creatures].

Also be sure to stir up the Freeper beehive, because a Freeper will fall for anything if you slap a flag on it — let alone a flag, an eagle, and the word, ‘troops.’

Makes you wonder how many of the dipshits have ignorantly managed to turn their computers into zombies.

teachers dont make much in PDX but its a cool city with good transportation options, true blue peeps and local little neighborhoods – weather sucks tho in winter unless you ride/ski. beware of the Christists tho 5 miles outside the city limits – it becomes penciltucky pretty quick but it is beautiful country

Plus, the beer is excellent, there’s plenty o’ sunshine, and rents and house prices in my corner of it are pretty reasonable.

Overall, it’s pretty nice place to be, provided you don’t mind the occasional bite from some of our lovable wildlife.

As far as LA goes, yeah, if you wanna try working for the LA Mummified School District, there are a lot of good people in there putting their shoulders to the wheel, trying to shove this massive smoking behemoth out of the deep muddy ditch and back onto the road. Some of them are friends of mine.

I spent a whole buncha time working with the top administrators trying to figure out how to get rid of some of the dingbats who have fastened themselves to the LAUSD in the hopes of sucking out a free lunch. It is sad, but those very few do indeed make life a living hell for the other teachers.

Oxnard was pretty sketchy as of a few years ago, but I haven’t been there in a while, so it may have gentrified. Houses going from $170K to $700K in a five-year span will do that to a place. Topanga area is about as lib/yip as you can get in LA; there are still some burnouts proudly flying the fringed buckskin look at the Canyon store on weekends. Anyone here ever been to the Mermaid? Great place. Shot some scenes for “Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag” there with Pesci back in ‘96.