Hey remember when the paparazzi got some shots of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton\u2019s cooters as they stepped out of cars and TMZ and all them were like \u201cis flashing your clam the new LA fashion trend\u201d?
\n\nAnd you were like \u201cno, obviously it isn\u2019t, you scumbags\u201d.
\n\nHaha, joke\u2019s on you, flashing your clam was totally the new LA fashion trend. This was the Les Deux era, and the dawn of the Cahuenga corridor (NYC translation: \u201cmeatpacking district\u201d) for the plebs, and for six months or so that was totally a thing, girls going out without panties and dancing up on tables where everyone could see, lifting up their skirts and going \u201cwoooo!\u201d for the photogs camped out on the street.
\n\nWhether the celebrity stuff was following or starting that trend, who knows. But \u201cshowing strangers your labia\u201d was an honest-to-god Thing for a bit.
\n\nYour impressions of anywhere you\u2019ve never personally been come from creatives based in LA. And every cultural product about LA is centered on the message \u201cLA is fucking terrible\u201d, have you noticed that?
\n\nBut you\u2019re like \u201cnah, it can\u2019t be that bad, it\u2019s just an exaggeration in a telling direction\u201d.
\n\nNo dude, it\u2019s not, LA is fucking terrible.
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