The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Until 2007, I lived in Paris for many years, and had a blog there called Rue Rude.
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This is the driest year since 1877 in Los Angeles. I don't remember a drop of rain the whole summer. Los Angeles is a desert, and real clouds in the sky are occasion for rejoicing. Yet the flowers are still blooming everywhere, and armies of gardeners appear at dawn in the rich parts of town.
"Don't waste that water," said C darkly as I let the water run. "It comes from 800 miles away."
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Actor Bruce Campbell: If you really analyze it, all the A movies are B movies....If you get bitten by a radioactive spider and dress up like a spider and fly around-- that's not only a B movie-- that's a 1950s B movie.
Interviewer: So Sam Raimi went on to make, uh, ...the three big Spiderman movies. And you have a cameo role in all of them, right?
Actor Bruce Campbell: Now, when you say "cameo," I would challenge that. I would go with "pivotal."
--Actor Bruce Campbell on NPR, 28 February 2009
Sounds like the situation in San Francisco when I moved there in the late 1980s. The lack of water is just a reality there. Too many people. Not sustainable.
Posted by: Ken | 18 September 2008 at 16:43
I was so impressed with the California Aqueduct when I saw it in the middle of the dry, brown valley up north. Pretty daunting achievement and a sorry basis for building up a giant mega-city like LA... (All this is making me thirsty!)
Posted by: jetcat | 19 September 2008 at 04:13
It generally does not rain in the summer in LA in non-drought years.
Posted by: | 20 September 2008 at 04:15
I am soooooooo longing for a nice rainy day! Water the plants, Clean the air... Cool this heat wave! A nice pot of soup! A fire in the fireplace! A sweater!
So much for Fall cool weather... we need to do a rain dance!
Posted by: Fifi Flowers | 25 September 2008 at 19:45