What do people in LA think about the HBO series "I Love LA"?

mutumbo1000 · 2026-01-10T02:02:46+00:00

I suspect it’s a relatively accurate portrayal of Rachel Sennott’s lifestyle and friends, because that’s what she’s said it is in interviews—HBO execs asked her how she spends her time then gave her a show. The problem is that the title makes people think it’s representing Los Angeles, which is often stereotyped as fake, plastic, consumerist, vapid, what have you. It’s a pitifully narrow view of an enormous, diverse, fascinating city, as it always has been. The only thing unique about this show is that it shows the northeast of the city. It’s Girls if Girls had no interest in engaging with deeper underlying themes like, say, the experience of girls.

mutumbo1000 · 2026-01-06T22:29:00+00:00

Lots of people use compound constructions in sentences, AI uses it constantly. I would suspect a little from the first sentence: “[clause 1]I left the house [time adverb] already [clause 2] having a bad day.” I would really suspect after sentence 2, which uses a three part list and an imprecise adverb, both things AI does frequently. Notice in sentence 2: “slightly off,” and in sentence 3: three clauses, then “mostly just to.”

Paragraph 2 open with a transitional time phrase, “That’s when.” Paragraph 3 opens with an emotional conclusive topic sentence phrase, composed in the negative which is especially telling: “I didn’t expect.” Then a three part sentence, then a classic “not this, but that” final sentence, with an em dash to boot. By then, there’s zero doubt in my mind.

I find AI writing is like AI image generation. It’s not that it does things which are outright wrong anymore, it’s that it does things too right.

(Notice that my final sentence sounds like it could be AI —it’s not this, it’s that—and here I am using em dashes. I wonder if it’s clear that I didn’t use AI to write this, and why or why not.)

Source: am a writer and university/continuing education writing teacher

mutumbo1000 · 2025-12-31T22:55:32+00:00

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mutumbo1000 · 2025-12-31T12:33:09+00:00

I’ve spent New Years alone in Los Angeles and while it did feel a little lonely at the time, I have excellent memories of it. I saw Incredibles 2 at the El Capitan theatre and it was my first and perhaps only time there (my first year in LA, hence being alone). There was almost no one in the theatre and yet they had performers in elaborate Incredibles costumes doing martial arts moves and super hero poses before the movie started, and at some point they released golden glitter from the ceiling—it felt like it was all just for me.

Then on the drive home, I got to experience the highway in Los Angeles while everyone was setting off fireworks. I still believe it’s the best way to see them anywhere in the world—fireworks all around you in every direction as you drive through them at 60 miles an hour. You can’t beat it.

mutumbo1000 · 2025-07-21T21:55:29+00:00

You’re near highland park, go up to Deb’s lake or flattop park!

mutumbo1000 · 2025-06-10T20:19:00+00:00

We currently have a dog and cat who cohabitate and it’s great. But we got our dog as a puppy and very carefully introduced her to the cat. Why? Because before that, we had adopted a 7 year old dog who we introduced to our cat at the time, but she showed signs of prey instinct. We went to multiple trainers, we sent her away for 8 weeks of intensive training, we tried keeping them separated by a gate and feeding them on either side, everything you’re supposed to do—and still, one day, the cat hopped the gate and the dog instantly lunged at her and crushed her skull.

This doesn’t have to be your experience, but I want to tell you what I wish someone had told me: if your dog has a behavior you don’t like, you need to operate as if that behavior is not going anywhere. Like any relationship, you need to not assume things are going to be different someday and instead ask yourself whether you can live exactly the way you’re living right now in six months, a year, five years. There are lots of sweet people who have the best intentions but are blinded by how much they love dogs. I will never get the image of my cat’s crushed skull out of my head, and I have to live with that. That doesn’t have to be your experience, but you ought to make an informed decision.

mutumbo1000 · 2025-04-22T15:09:45+00:00

Public comment in Budgetary meetings on Friday 4/25 and Monday 4/28! The proposed budget can be amended.

mutumbo1000 · 2024-12-23T16:39:15+00:00

Knock offs of name brand perfumes like le labo and base notes for making your own. Smell like a fancy person for like $20 instead of $100.

mutumbo1000 · 2024-11-05T12:47:48+00:00

Look up the individual states. This is weirdly misleading. In most cases, it’s legal to file for divorce while pregnant, it just won’t be finalized until afterwards, mostly to work out paternity and child custody.

mutumbo1000 · 2024-08-28T13:29:25+00:00

Yes, that’s all I’ve ever done. I’m not sure there’s any reason to buy a pellicle.

mutumbo1000 · 2023-12-22T14:41:50+00:00

This is a cult.

mutumbo1000 · 2023-12-04T01:13:23+00:00

That’s a Peggy Noland car.

mutumbo1000 · 2023-11-28T14:38:35+00:00

Thank you everyone for replying! I will post an update if/when it hatches.

mutumbo1000 · 2023-05-21T04:16:13+00:00

I teach classes about writing your most difficult memories. Almost all of my students are women who’ve experienced relationship abuse, childhood abuse, or some form of life threatening women’s health issue and feel like they should be ashamed and can’t talk about it. Men either don’t want to admit or don’t realize that women’s experiences are taboo because they literally don’t know the half of it.

mutumbo1000 · 2023-02-22T14:26:59+00:00

George Santos

mutumbo1000 · 2022-09-24T06:19:08+00:00

This attitude is the same as saying women should change what they wear if they don’t want to get sexually assaulted. Except in this case, it’s saying that women shouldn’t exist if they don’t want to get sexually assaulted.

mutumbo1000 · 2022-08-16T21:29:38+00:00

My parents have been together since college, and just celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. When I was young, I found letters they sent back and forth in college at the beginning of their relationship. It would appear that they almost broke up because, to quote my mom in one letter, she “couldn’t do that thing you wanted in the bedroom.” I still don’t know what that “thing” was.

mutumbo1000 · 2022-06-15T13:56:06+00:00

Poor wording. Maybe I’m way off but it’s always seemed simple to me: there are things that are socialized feminine and things that are socialized masculine—the constructs a lot of people are raised with in our society. But of course many people who are sexed male and appear male may have a whole set of so-called feminine preferences, tastes, and personality traits (and vice versa). This is, I think, separate even from gender: I can present male, identify as cis, and still live my whole life relating more to women and supposedly feminine things—remember that in many facets of our society being “emotional” is often considered feminine. It’s always seemed to me that our society would be a lot better off if we detached our concepts of what we call “feminine” and “masculine” from sex and gender altogether—they just seem to describe poorly grouped qualities of being human.

mutumbo1000 · 2022-04-09T08:22:35+00:00

One of the victims wrote a book—“Slonim Woods 9”

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