Comments on: On a new blogger & New York http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/ Stories, thoughts & insights on Jesus, college students, and the Bible; Los Angeles, immigration, politics, ethnicity and culture, and also about my daughter Isabel - from a spanglish gringo father living in, learning from, leading & loving life in East L.A. Sat, 19 May 2012 04:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Micah http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-766 Micah Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:06:29 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-766 Just saw this and am commenting way too late, but really Scott- LA better than New York? Not in a million years! I guess we'll be content on our opposite sides of the fence. Jeremy hit the nail on the head, but maybe you do have to be an artist to see why NY is set apart from all the other American cities... Just saw this and am commenting way too late, but really Scott- LA better than New York? Not in a million years! I guess we’ll be content on our opposite sides of the fence. Jeremy hit the nail on the head, but maybe you do have to be an artist to see why NY is set apart from all the other American cities…

]]> By: Spanglish Gringo http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-735 Spanglish Gringo Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:13:10 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-735 I can buy that... except for the sports part (Go Lakers! Go Clippers!) Even if it doesn't all work for me, I can see the draw. I think it is the "stacking 8 million" people part that turned me off to NY. Felt too claustrophobic, too crowded. But I could see how that's also be a draw. I can buy that… except for the sports part (Go Lakers! Go Clippers!) Even if it doesn’t all work for me, I can see the draw. I think it is the “stacking 8 million” people part that turned me off to NY. Felt too claustrophobic, too crowded. But I could see how that’s also be a draw.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-734 Jeremy Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:59:53 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2006/10/20/on-a-new-blogger-new-york/#comment-734 At the risk of sounding like an arrogant New Yorker ... There's an energy that comes from stacking 8 million of the most diverse people in the world on top of each other in homes and workplaces and cultural centers and parks and playgrounds and schools and museums and concert halls and synagogues and churches and restaurants and cafes that cannot be imitated outside of that context. Small geography + art and culture + finance and media + unending streams of immigrants + 2 million young people 18 and under + the greatest professional sports franchise in the history of professional sports + everything else already mentioned = a place unlike any other. There's so much more to say, but since I'm typing this from a hotel in another city I'll refrain from piling on. ;) At the risk of sounding like an arrogant New Yorker …

There’s an energy that comes from stacking 8 million of the most diverse people in the world on top of each other in homes and workplaces and cultural centers and parks and playgrounds and schools and museums and concert halls and synagogues and churches and restaurants and cafes that cannot be imitated outside of that context. Small geography + art and culture + finance and media + unending streams of immigrants + 2 million young people 18 and under + the greatest professional sports franchise in the history of professional sports + everything else already mentioned = a place unlike any other.

There’s so much more to say, but since I’m typing this from a hotel in another city I’ll refrain from piling on. ;)

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