i still love LA

i was driving up san vicente this morning, looking out at all the palm trees and the jacarandas, with the windows down and the radio playing, and i was reminded what a beautiful city this is. yes, the place is mostly fiction and fantasy, and that’s expressed everywhere in the architecture, cars, people.but when i am just here to visit, the delusional part of that equation isn’t as apparent, or doesn’t bother me as much as it once did. sure, much of LA is just a fa?ßade, but it’s not much more pretentious than, for example, using a cedilla in the word “facade”.
i love LA. not enough to move back here maybe. but i do love it.