April Swanking - Huntington Gardens - April 22nd

[Not Afraid]

No joke about the Orange Curtain thing. I grew up behind it and lived there for a loooong time. Sometimes it is hard to get beyond it. I do MUCH more fun and swanky stuff living on the other side of it. It seems to be this strange barrier and can be stifiling. Odd but true.......at least for me.

[tracilicious]

Ok, someone fill me in on the orange curtain?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Ok, someone fill me in on the orange curtain?

A seeminly imaginary boundry that seperates Orange from LA County. Some of the things asserted to be prevented by the boundry include:

• Culture from getting into Orange County
• Affluence from Leaving Orange County
• Republicans for moving into LA County
• Crime from moving into Orange County

[innerSpaceman]

Well, since good-natured ribbing is not being taken as such ... I might as well just be blunt.

I'm not accusing anyone of being a fudz. I'm just teasing. CP and GD are some of the least fudzy people I know. Otherwise I wouldn't love them so.

But if you don't wanna go look at the perty flowers, just say so. Don't whine about the lonely drive. When pretending to be a fudz, don't be surprised if you are teasingly accused of it.

There's no teasing to be had from "I just don't want to go to the flower thing." Heck, a statement like that might even go a ways towards convincing folks that GD is not the gayest straight man in the world.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

A seeminly imaginary boundry that seperates Orange from LA County. Some of the things asserted to be prevented by the boundry include:

• Culture from getting into Orange County
• Affluence from Leaving Orange County
• Republicans for moving into LA County
• Crime from moving into Orange County

Ah, thanks for filling me in. Up until now I had thought that LA was part of OC. Funnily enough, in spite of 35+ trips to CA, I've never stepped foot in LA. I must do this someday, though I can't imagine that it's as good as NYC, and I've been there.

I think looking at flowers sound lovely, though I don't want to spend an afternoon reminding Indi not to pick them. I am still looking for tips as to what to spend Saturday doing, if any of you care to mosey on over to my DL thread.

[innerSpaceman]

Actually, my favorite gardens of the Huntington have little or no flowers.

The Zen rock garden is but two steps away from nirvana, and the expansive desert gardens of cactus and such are uniquely beautiful.



And the orange curtain is such an oppressive barrier that, were it not for Disneyland being behind it, I would rarely - if ever - venture there.

[NirvanaMan]

As a relative outsider to this, thus with nothing emotionally invested in either OC or LA relative to the other, I figured I would jump in. It's like arguing about the greatness of Copernicus versus Galileo. Either way, they're both much smarter than you and neither one sucks. Having lived someplace that actually blows (Detroit) and realizing that most of this country is not privy to the greatness of places like NY and SoCal, it puts everything into perspective. The reason housing values exploded out here is because, it is simply f'in awesome and everyone wants to be here.

I think the "orange curtain" thig is BS. The real issue is simply the physical distance and the traffic on the 5 and 405. If you live in South County, it's a royal PIA to get to LA, and Vise Versa. Why go up to Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach when Newport or Huntington or Laguna are right here, and again, vice versa. However if you lived in North County, you would easily venture up to Long Beach or Hermosa. Hell of a lot closer than Laguna.

There are great things about both areas and all of SoCal is better than 95% of the US so appreciate what you have here instead of trying to fight about which subset of this greatness is slightly more awesome. I love to make it up to LA when I can for certain events and the like, but ususally its much easier to go out locally here in the OC than drive the hour to hour and a half up to LA. Last night for example, we were thinking of going to hollywood to go to a comedy club, but then decided to go to the Improv in Irvine cause its about 1,000 times closer and easier to get to. And you know what, we had a great time. Nuff said. Now, if I could just get my helicopter, jet pack, or star trek transporter working, that might change things. Damn that would be cool.

Boobies and tacos for all.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Wow, I just checked my closet and I don't have anything in pastel colors. Is this going to happen and if so, I need to go to Wallmart!! :P

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

I think the "orange curtain" thig is BS. The real issue is simply the physical distance and the traffic on the 5 and 405. If you live in South County, it's a royal PIA to get to LA, and Vise Versa. Why go up to Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach when Newport or Huntington or Laguna are right here, and again, vice versa. However if you lived in North County, you would easily venture up to Long Beach or Hermosa. Hell of a lot closer than Laguna.

[innerSpaceman]

I am able to mojo NirvanaMan (and did) ... but i just wanted everybody to know that I find him as mojo worthy as if I were unable to and had to post the standard no mojo quote.