Recently found the transcript for one of Bill Maher's New Rules:
"New Rule: California Hatin'", by Bill Maher
Lay off California. The rest of America loves to laugh at crazy California, but let's remember this: California has a lot of people. And the reason it does is that lots of people from other states end up saing, "Fuck this, I'm outta
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I am biased, though. It is just seriously not my kind of place by the sounds of things. Too damn hot and sunny and postcard. I want somewhere less plastic, with real weather.
The whole spiel is very America. "They hate us because they hate how we're what they'll never be." Even managing to turn it on each other. One day, one day in the far far future, it will dawn that most of that hate is not remotely based in envy.
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And you sound like you know nothing about California and are working from wild surmise. This, too, is 'very America'.
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Apologies for not being 'useful'. I wasn't told when I was friended that I would have to be so in all my comments.
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Frankly, I don't fully agree with Maher either; but I still maintain your own disdain of California-as-habitat is built on hearsay: 'by the sound of things' is not a 'valid reason' for liking or disliking a place. I suggest you spend some quiet time on the floor of a redwood forest in a light rain before you go dismissing the entire state as 'too damn hot and sunny and postcard'.
I'm a guest in faeshale's world just like you, so it is not my place to issue value judgments as to comportment; but your parting shot seems passive-aggressive and uncivil ( ... )
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Id like to call you sometime but I dont have the number any chance you could send that to me?
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Neither Maher nor you mention the landscape, which is, to my way of thinking, a large part of California's appeal: the confluence of mountains, desert, ancient forests, and coastline make for some of the most beautiful LAND that I have ever visited.
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New York City? Too bitchy, too self-destructive and too much the all-consuming monster.
But that's why I love it. Hahaha.
I guess California would be fine for a visit, but the East Coast is where I will pretty much live and die.
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