The OC

I have allowed my blog to lay dormant for awhile. In between school work and sleeping I just haven't found the time to comment on anything - though there have been things worth commenting on. I have spent the last ten or so days in Southern California (Orange County to be precise) visiting relatives and have learnt a number of things:

• George W Bush is even more stupid than you think.
  
• Most of Orange County was owned by one family, who cannot spell Avondale.
  
• Ladera Ranch is a bit like Disneyland.
  
• They don't grow all that many oranges in orange county.
  
• Congressman Dana Rohrabacher took money from a Porn mogul.
  
• Don Imus is a dickhead
  
• The San Diego Zoo does have Proboscis monkeys, but I can't find them.
  
• Fry's may be better than Best Buy for computer equipment, but they don't stock Nikon cameras.
  
• I have a relative who was one of Keith Olbermann's Worst People in the World
  
• Cetaphil lotion cures headlice (see above)
  
• They put a nuclear power plant on the beach.
  
• I really don't want Chronic Tacos.
  
• There's some nice art available in Laguna Beach (if you look hard enough).
  
• You can buy an "Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governator" t-shirt at LAX, but why would you want to?
  
• Everyone has an SUV (unless they are Liberals and have a hybrid).
  
• Some of the beaches look straight out of the Flinstones.
  
• Surfer dudes actually exist.
  
• Laguna Beach had a majority for Kerry (one of only three OC areas).
  
• Some people still like Bush (but the smart ones never did).
  
• Too many people watch Fox news.
  
• The Marriotts are Mormon.
  
• The book of Mormon is a load of crap but at least they're not Scientologists.
  
• Eight lanes is far too many for a highway.
  
• A root beer float made with coffee ice cream instead of vanilla is just as good.
  
• Koby is not and never will be short for Kobias (no matter how much you want it to be).
  
• Ahi is a tuna.
  
• Yehuda Matzahs were voted number one, but I still like Streits.
  
• No-one in the entire US administration knows what they are doing (but that was a given, see first point).
  
• An Anaheim Angels t-shirt costs $4 more than an LA Dodgers t-shirt at LAX.
  
• It took almost two hours to get through bag drop off (pre-checked in the night before) and security at Heathrow, at LAX it took 5 minutes - and I felt safer.
  

To conclude:
Southern California (OC and San Diego) is a nice place, shame about all the Republicans.

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

RIP