Across the tracks

[substitute]

To most people "Orange County" means my town: wealthy, white, beautiful, right-wing, vapid, with a great beach.

It's a big place, though. There's the most Mexican city outside Mexico itself, an entire Vietnamese town, hundreds of light industry and defense factories. There are also some very tough neighborhoods, gang wars, near-homeless poor in bad motels, skinheads, and lots of meth dealers.

Last night a 15-year-old girl was shotgunned in West Costa Mesa's worst neighborhood. She was three miles from my house, which is in the safest reporting district in Newport. If that had happened here you'd all be seeing it on the news right now. There, it's a squib buried in the Register.

We still have "the tracks" around here, even in Paradise. In Santa Ana it's 17th street, and here it's Newport Boulevard. Don't live on the wrong side.

Comments

[handstil.livejournal.com]

omfg the comments on that article. o.0

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Never, ever read the comments in the Register.

[brainflak.livejournal.com]

Note to self: when Substitute says "never, ever do X" then fscking take his advice! I had no idea how much ignorance and bigotry and hate and bile could pour out of my computer screen until I skimmed those comments on the OC Fascister Web site. Yikes. Must wash now.

if i were a praying man...

[elserracho.livejournal.com]

i'd pray for the register commenters to be run over by a bus of minutemen.

Re: if i were a praying man...

[substitute.livejournal.com]

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

You seen this?
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/

[sooz.livejournal.com]

whoa i just read those because of your comment..


fucking OC thats insane

[clairlacost.livejournal.com]

=] 5 months ago 2 Rating: Good Answer 0 Rating: Bad Answer Report Abuse by J a y m e Member since: August Total points: (Level 3) Add to My Contacts Block User Just watched it know i thought it was a sex tape aswell then i was like :O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O thats was soooooooo not expected and ohh :( i wanted jenny and eric to get together but oh well.