{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So thinky former Angelino confession: I found Los Angeles Plays Itself utterly forgettable and when I finally read City of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/692471866874642432/", "html": "<p>So thinky former Angelino confession: I found <i>Los Angeles Plays Itself</i> utterly forgettable and when I finally read <i>City of Quartz</i> years in it was ::wanking motion::. Part in how the both the city as he described it and the frame he brought to it were so particularly early-90s. This is the LA era that <i>Snow Crash</i> was riffing on, remember.</p>"}