October 19, 2006
IT'S OFFICIAL, LA IS THE NEW NYC
The New York Times Magazine recently chronicled the hilarious and futile fight against pigeons by some Los Angeles residents.
Dodson has lived in Hollywood for 29 years. She likes pigeons and does not want them killed or made to suffer. She said this repeatedly in the clipped, mildly truculent way she says a lot of things. But having helped muscle gangs and drugs out of her neighborhood in the 80’s, Dodson says she feels besieged again. She and her group, the Argyle Civic Association, have turned to a series of unconventional approaches to neutralize a problem they simply refuse to put up with. “We’re in the middle of the biggest boom, and there’s pigeons everywhere — like where they’re going to put the W hotel,” she says, invoking, as she often does, the upscale hotel as a symbol of Hollywood’s hard-won renaissance. “There’s nothing but pigeon poop.”
The equivalation of street gangs, luxury hotels, and pigeon shit in one paragraph illustrates why Los Angelenos are functionally insane and wouldn't last two minutes on the East Coast. I can give them a tip though. You can hate the pigeons. You can kill the pigeons--some of them. You're never going to get rid of all of them though. Learn to live with them.
UPDATE: A reread showed that Ms. Dodson wasn't equating a new luxury hotel with pigeon shit or street gangs; it was something to be welcomed. Insanity charges remain pending, based on what I've seen on Rivington St.
Tagged:Posted by Lexiphane at October 19, 2006 2:47 PM
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