Altogether the LA metro area has the ambience of a garage the size of Rhode Island where someone happened to leave the engine running.  To say that LA is all about cars is kind of like saying the Pacific Ocean is all about water.  But one forgets the supernatural scale of the freeways, the tsunamis of vehicles, the cosmic despair of the traffic jams.

Quelle: End of Summer Blues – Clusterfuck Nation

I think I was the only person who ever walked down Melrose Avenue this calendar year.