God if you are listening please save me from the skinny whites because I can't seem to save myself. The east side of LA. home of dressing the way you're supposed to dress. Silverlake, Echo Park, Highland Park, and Eagle Rock. They all tend to reside over here. They're hot. They're Skinny. They're White. They run the east side of LA and you can kick and scream but I don't think they're going away anytime soon. Once you're in it there's no way out. I don't know how I made it into this world. I don't feel like a card-caring member but I feel pretty close to it as someone that is not white or skinny. 

There are no strangers in this world. They all went to New York together. At least that's how it feels. I've been orbiting around this world for a year now and still don't understand how anyone knows each other. No one does anything but they all do everything. One might work at “The Coffee Shop” but also work at “The Book Store”. This is a world for the lucky or the thirsty. Still too on the outside to really know. Lately, I've been wondering if I should change so I too can be lucky or if I should remain in orbit and on the outside. When I left Tacoma I wanted to be close to the culture but now with a year under my belt in LA. I keep asking myself what culture is there even to be close to. 

I guess The Skinny White is a culture. The more I look into what that word means the more I start to question what's going on with the Skinny Whites. I met a girl recently who is a LA native and we were talking about the “Scene”. Somewhere in the convo, she said she wanted to go to New York. I asked why and she said “There gotta be more out there than this. What are we going to keep doing? Tenants?” She’s not wrong. I ask myself that every week and I've been to tenants maybe 4 times and 1 time is too many. I really don’t if New York is an answer for LA. I just know culture is built around strangers because strangers are new. Newness changes things and change makes things new. Culture is meant to move forward not backward. We have to say no to the Skinny Whites and embrace the fact that 2008 was a long time ago. It's time to say bye and start saying hello to the future. 

• I Have to Poke Holes in Things: A Conversation with Natasha Stagg: Great bedtime read
• Just By Fantasic Fogman: I love this song. Great for this time of the year
• Someone's Daughter by Beth Orton: Say yes to Beth!!

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