California is OK

Jason Weisberger is Boing Boing's publisher. He often does what he ought, instead of what he should. On instagram and twitter he is @jlw

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wrybread

Linda Mar State Beach, looking down from the bluff?
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  Muir Beach, CA
- tylerkaraszewski
  
  There’s a Taco Bell in the middle of Linda Mar.
TWX

Looks like the horizon is illuminated from wildfires…
- JMB98115
  
  digitally manipulated.
  i can tell by thepixels and having seen a few shops…
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

But if you believe the media hype, California is NOT ok. It’s doing just as bad as Greece! Sure, the numbers don’t show that but hey it was in the WSJ so it must be true!!!111
franko

waitaminnit — i thought California was CA… isn’t Oklahoma OK?
…i’m so confused…..
- Cowicide
  
  Pass that joint over here…
Brainspore

Now that you mention it, I have noticed that places which aren’t California do tend to suck a little.
- bigmike7
  
  That’s easy to fix. Stay away from California for a good long while and then try coming back. California’s a habit just like chewing toenails or scratching between the thighs long after the itch is gone.
http://www.fatjerry.com Dimmer

Muir Beach is fine until you need to take a shit, at which point you have to find a lonely little outhouse on the edge of a cliff that holds just a hole for the tide to wash in/out. No paper, no “Provided for your protection by the Mgt.” things, just a soup-can sized hole 15 feet above a pile of shit so nasty the seagulls avoid the place.

It’s OK to piss wherever though.
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  Thats nice. I call it home.
  - RJ
    
    Dimmer writes about public toilets the way some people write about wine or restaurants. I find his comment better if I imagine he’s writing an article for a hobo travel magazine. “Rustic crappers reminiscent of traditional boxcar soup cans. No wiping media, so be ready to use your socks or take a dip in the ocean. Food is scarce; no seagulls or rats to be found. Open air pissing is available for the free spirited traveler. All in all, Hobo Living gives it 2 out of 5 bag wines.”
    - JMB98115
      
      but 1080p hidef!
    - http://www.fatjerry.com Dimmer
      
      I did actually write an article for Fat Jerry titled “World’s Worst Lavatories”, which included Muir Woods in it’s list. Also probably a good contender for “World’s Worstest Writing” really.
      - http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
        
        Muir Woods and Muir Beach are two different places. If you decide to visit the beach, drop me and email and I’ll buy you a drink at the Pelican Inn.
- Teller
  
  Somebody might’ve taken pity on you at the Pelican Inn.
  - http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
    
    The team at the Pelican Inn are wonderful.
    - http://www.fatjerry.com Dimmer
      
      That sounds like a good reason to visit! Sadly, I’m locked in Santa Clara these days, but if I get the chance I’ll take you up on the free drink Jason.
      
      In return, if you ever hit the South Bay, I’ll buy you a Himbeirguist Liqour (SP? on both) at the local Germanic place.
jkg

easy on the saturation slider there, nature!
- SamSam
  
  Yup. My comment was going to be “California is ok, if you LOVE photoshop sliders.”
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Perkins/1314630060 Ray Perkins
  
  Too bad the photographer didn’t correct the tilted horizon while he was at it.
- scionofgrace
  
  I’m blanking on the name of the book/author with a passage about sunsets being gorgeous, in spite of being in colors no decorator would put together. Pratchett, or DNA?
petsounds

I suddenly hear the voice of Phil Collins in my head…

And no, California is not OK. Not even ecologically. But you still get a pretty sunset, even with the smog.
- retepslluerb
  
  Even? Because!
rattypilgrim

Muir Beach…good times…
satn

SHHHH! Dont tell the other coast!
- Just_Ok
  
  That’s what the sun looks like when it’s already given it’s best to the right coast.
Donald Petersen

California’s all right. Somebody check my brain.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Aron-Briggs/1386087012 Aron Briggs

i drove past it once
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Murdock/783770273 Andy Murdock

Why is that picture yelling at me with color?
- SamSam
  
  It’s a fairly common thing that happens when you take a picture of a sunset, then see it on the screen and you’re like “Whaaa??? That sunset was so much more beautiful in my head!” So then you just “bump” the saturation slider on Photoshop, to make it look a little more like it was in your head, and you never notice that you’ve fallen way off the deep-end.
  
  It happens to me all the time. Usually I come back to the picture the next day and I ask myself “was I insane?”
  - HD
    
    Thing is, it really looks like that. If you don’t believe me, I can show you scads of sunset pictures taken 20 years ago with a film camera and Fuji Provia 100. Living here, you eventually get bored with it.
    
    Just kidding. Not about the pix, I have those. You just never get bored with it.
tw1515tw

So OK it closed its border to other Americans in the 1930s (The bum blockade).
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hobos-barred-lner/query/01104600
http://journals.chapman.edu/ojs/index.php/VocesNovae/article/view/20/94
http://www.facebook.com/mark.burban Mark Burban

so california is like an over saturared gaudy sunset? so what’s new? i guess that’s ok.
- agreenster
  
  If you think sunsets are gaudy, I have nothing but sadness for you.
  - wysinwyg
    
    I think he may have meant “gaudy image of a sunset.” I doubt the actual sunset was nearly as gaudy as the picture in the OP.
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

“Hi everybody, I’m Huell Howser!!”

http://www.calgold.com/
jsd

It’s the pollution from the Sweetums factory.
Robert

http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/e/e6/Okay_guy.jpg
- zarray
  
  That’s how I feel since it’s St. Amateur weekend.
  So much Guinness will go wasted and unappreciated.
  And bagpipes :(
  
  The colors make me feel better.
OgilvyTheAstronomer

I was fortunate enough to live in California for several years, and man… I’ve never been in a place with such a ridiculous density of natural wonders. San Francisco is just the cherry on top.
seaanemoneman

Pretty.

Screw the haters. Ya know.
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  Thank you.
japolo

yeah, what all those guys said! california sucks! don’t come here! stay wherever you are! oklahoma or whatever is totally the same thing.
- bigmike7
  
  Yes, the sense of community generated by the strip malls and parking lots is palpable in California. But I’ve always said the real secret is the mobs of psychotic angry drivers. This makes it special.
rekoil

Seen on a T-Shirt: “Welcome to California. Now please go home.”
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  “Why do they call it tourist season if you’re not allowed to shoot them?”
- Donald Petersen
  
  Pacific Beach bumper sticker: “There is no life east of I-5.”
- HD
  
  “Ski Vail”
Rhett Holechek

Was the Caps Lock on when calibrating color?
Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet

Wait, I live in Minnesota why?
Svenski

California is not okay as long as Moonbeam is our governor.
- pacbeller
  
  Oh, yes. Truly a Secular Liberal Hellhole. Why, The Lord seldom sends his Blessed Snow our way, and I can grow several varieties of fruit, grapes and berries in my back yard with hardly any effort at all, which is, of course, contrary to The Lord’s Judgement at the time of Adam & Eve’s eviction from The Garden, and therefore sinful. And my next door neighbor is a Hindu! Imagine that! And everyone who listens to AM talk radio knows we’re all going broke providing free transsexual operations and mass abortions to serve Alice Water’s burgeoning stem cell hors d’oeuvre sideline in Berkeley…
  
  Did you know that S&P RAISED California’s credit rating outlook to Positive? I guess they must be in on The Illuminati Plot. Yes, we have our problems, and we are working through them, thanks. But at the end of the day, sometimes I have a sunset like the one shown above, and fresh fruit throughout the year. And up to this point, I can count on my water & sanitary districts to function as they should, thanks.
  - Svenski
    
    Dude, seriously, what are you ranting about?
    - Guest
      
      the not shitty job Moonbeam is doing
      - Donald Petersen
        
        Word. After the Governator (to a lesser extent) and Pete Wilson, and considering our benighted Legislature, they don’t make mops big enough.
reglisse

Nice sunrise Jason.

The other side of California is not too bad either.
- Teller
  
  Thanks for your Sierra hiking shots. Can’t wait.
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  wow. those are lovely. Where did you take them?
  - reglisse
    
    Thanks! I took them a few years ago, hiking in the Sierra as Teller said. More specifically: On the trail to the top of Mt Whitney.
http://twitter.com/OutpostCincy Outpost Cincinnati

Thanks Jason, today happens to be the day that my wife and I are letting our family and friends here in Cincinnati know that we decided to move back to California and this picture made me happy.
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  If you are in NorCal and visit Muir Beach please feel free to drop me an email, if I’m around I’ll be glad to buy you a drink at the Pelican Inn.
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Brooks/1131532663 John Brooks

Gov. Moonbeam is doing just fine on his second trip , it was pumping Arnold who didn’t fix anything and we worry about Svenski.
- Svenski
  
  No, he’s doing a terrible job, just like Arnold before him and Davis before him. Democrat or Republican are equal jokes.
bolamig

Good reminder… I can drive to that beach quicker than most people drive home from work, yet sadly I don’t see sunsets hardly ever with all the beautiful hills in the way. Rough life I know. California sucks. Don’t come.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I have the same problem. I can’t see the sunsets because that 11,000 foot, snow-capped mountain is in the way. And sometimes I can’t even see the mountain because of all the palm trees.
  - Teller
    
    Fix the damn chopper already.