Well, no time no blog entry ... Last Friday Ms Viki and I flew down to Phoenix to see some old friends and celebrate their daughter’s graduation. First, I literally ran into Sean Penn on the sidewalk outside terminal 3 at SFO. He was without entourage, which seemed strange. Second, our flight was late and without an explanation or a how-d’you-do. (We flew Ted, which is a part of United, and is like its parent corporation without the friendly service. In fact, the flight attendants were indifferent or downright rude. South-Western next time.) Sigh. But anyway, Phoenix and Scotsdale are strange sprawling proto-LAs. The last time I was there in 2002 I took to referring to the constaint construction as terraforming. Lots of oversized, over-air-conditioned American suburban homes. Give it a decade or two and it’ll be sporting all the problems these folks thought they were escaping. (It didn’t help that I was reading Gibson’s Pattern Recognition at the time, I suppose.) I didn’t touch a computer while I was there, which was rather nice. I was watching CNN on cable at the hotel when I noticed that Arianna Huffington has a site that’s doing celebrity blogging.
Posted by jim at May 16, 2005 07:22 AM