6/3/2011
The fruits of our guitar hunt:
We had to go through all sorts to get these guitars (not least because we couldn't go over, around, or under Long Beach). We walked past houses with bullet holes in them (not those adhesive fake holes; real ones!) to get to the second guitar. Everything's in good, working order, and cost under $100 (not including gas).
Walking through the quasi-slum in which we found the Yamaha really brought to my attention the fact that California's not looking so hot right now. Indeed, she looks like she needs a bit of a lie-down.
Not the landscape, of course. She's still staggeringly beautiful in that sense, simultaneously rugged and lush, sparse and smooth.
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| Apart from the fact that she can't breathe for all the smog, Mother Earth is doing just fine. |
The same is not true of Cali's man-made structures. Except in the most affluent areas, the roads are cracked and potholed, the houses sadly decrepit, often abandoned. Call me a dirty pinko commie (a huge insult here), but it's tragically unfair.
California's been in a long-term abusive relationship with the economy, and it seems her bruises are beginning to blossom.
The Quest Quotient by Nancy Howie and Steff Werman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at thequestquotient2011.blogspot.com.
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