hotwater

 

Today’s Episode �" Them Stupid People �"

  Or    - How to get into Hot Water �"

 

My favourite places in London tend to be crowded places; I think we program ourselves into this love of busy places when in busy cities. I have been in London for so long that ‘My favourite’ places are just a caricature of myself more than anything else. I like the National Portrait Gallery, as a place that has left its remnants over times, then there are the London parks, and only wish I could keep them the way they were the first time I saw them all those years back.

 

There is also the Book London, or was truly the Book London. There was the British Library reading rooms, not a favourite but just an indication on how the times have moved along and renovated the place away from 19th century, into the late 20th suspended. Another more romantic and charged part of Book London must be Charing Cross Rd, which was the centre of many historic, new, used and folio bookstores. By quite coincidence was passing that area, after as many months, or years shying away from my favourite book habitat, to see the area all closed up and ready for demolishing, renovation. No doubt judging by the Reel Estate costs of central London skyscrapers are lining up to go up.  The only conciliation on the street closure was , being able to see the lower sections of that road the way they were all those years back as they always have housed music instruments and other arts and painting galleries and shops.

 

Enough Nostalgia, currently my favourite London, is hanging around at Starbucks with coffee and mocha, and reading eBooks there and wait for the occasional familiar friend, foe or face. These tend to be in railway stations suppose, as they are crowded.

 

 

By contrast My Los Angeles, is not crowded, my favourite book stores, Borders in Torrance, various around Santa Monica, also some closed now, are very quiet and spaced out and lots of room to discover. Favourite pacific scenes in Redondo Beach, seems not discovered yet. But truly most of all I like most about LA is myself, I like myself more in Los Angeles, for some reason. 

 

 

Tip toe on bath tub �"

 

Talking of crowds, I think we have in wide and varied cultures of metropolitan areas have learnt to resist and dislike stereotyping,  that is of course the familiar ones,  for Race , Class, Education,  Gender, Sexuality, etc, but I think these are just the ‘received stereotypes’ �" There are also the more innate forms which we do not articulate with much refinement. But protect as the “other” person behaviour pattern that may be dealt with “judgmental articulation - and not fairness but  - pragmatically correct  - even though - politically not at all correct”.. ...At work I have this Operations Supervisor, and he is pedantic, I do not call him that, I just call him STUPID (innately to myself) . - Then there is an Instruments Supervisor,  he is very evasive and aloof, I call him STUPID too ( to myself of course).  �" the list can go on, there is the Unit Manager, who really does not exist when needed, and what better adjective to call him STUPID (quietly).

 

 

Hot water �"

 

There are many people in this world, who are more healthy, articulate, and more wealthy, I think I just call them stupid too.  I am wondering if by some Time Machine if I were to be transported to meet the Sate in Los Angeles, who would be supposedly more articulate , healthy and possibly wealthy, but would also have less problem spending money in LA, than difficulty of spending money in London. I think I call him stupid too.

 

 

 

Rejoinder �"

 

Bathtubs in London are shaped, in their peculiarly Victorian style with floating contours, I think they were made in this way to be inviting, even though the toes, may say otherwise. The style of Bathtubs seems to have got standardised all around the planet after years of Hygiene Promotion Campaigns by all them Hygiene Nazis. The markets in their ever more drive to expand into new territories have now appointed a new Shower Tzar to beat off the competitions from bathtubs.