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By: Lit Blogging 5.5 « Carver’s Dog

Lit Blogging 5.5 « Carver’s Dog — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:21:02 +0000

[...] May 13, 2008 – SHARPEN YOUR GAZE: Over at Blogging L.A. yesterday, I gave Faboomama a Nathanael West-inspired lecture (second comment in) on why she should not openly laugh and guffaw at L.A.’s faux architectural styles; as is par [...]

By: lucindamichele

lucindamichele — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:24:20 +0000

I hear their restaurant, Bistrotek, is great, from a friend of mine who went there to do a review.

By: faboomama

faboomama — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:10:38 +0000

@dave…we were thinking of going over there for drinks…once we get some money and wind up all the way over there, we probably will.

@fraz…like the old Lucky store brand items "Cereal".

By: daveshare

daveshare — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:08:13 +0000

How funny you should post on this. I just saw this for the first time today. My friend, who just graduated from LMU, said he went drinking there and stayed there. He seemed to like it.

Lame name though, I agree.

By: rodger

rodger — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:30:23 +0000

I am sure a good chunk of the stuff that makes me laugh are props for movies You've been living in L.A. too long and absorbing yourself in the so-called "L.A. experience" if you have become inept at distinguishing the difference between a faux facade and a real one. You shouldn't exult in you laughter, though, as Nathanael West amply emphasizes in The Day of the Locust, perhaps the ultimate Los Angeles novel: "But not even the soft wash of dusk could help the houses. Only dynamite would be of any use against the Mexican ranch houses, Samoan huts, Mediterranean villas, Egyptian and Japanese temples, Swiss chalets, Tudor cottages, and every possible combination of these styles that lined the slopes of the canyon. "On the corner of La Huerta Road was a miniature Rhine castle with tarpaper turrets pierced for archers. Next to it was a highly colored shack with domes and minarets out of the Arabian Nights. Again he was charitable. Both houses were comic, but he did not laugh. Their desire to startle was so eager and guileless." (Pg. 262) Sharpen your gaze, Fab. Nathanael West did and he wasn't even from L.A.

By: frazgo

frazgo — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:19:44 +0000

The effect would have been better if it was a white building with blue letters.