Letters

You guys need a good cleansing.

-Jeffrey S. RaskinLos Angeles

DEAR EDITOR:Johnny Angel is so right-on about San Francisco ("Why I'm Glad To Be Back in L.A."). Two years ago I left that rat-infested, overpriced, incestuous little communist day-care center for clove-cigarette-puffing poseurs, that damp, dank bed-and-breakfast that fancies itself a city because it has an opera house and a handful of overrated restaurants, and I never looked back. Why should I? In L.A. I can actually live like an adult, have an apartment and a car (and places to park it!), for less than it costs to live in "America's Favorite City." And I really hardly ever miss the sourdough bread.

Rock on, Johnny Angel, and welcome home.

-Steve GreenbergHollywood

DEAR EDITOR:Re: Falling James and Al's Bar ["Best Loud Music Club"]. At last someone from your publication has the sack to make a stance. After reading your "alternative" newspaper for the last few years, I gather that either you have passive music writers disinclined to make a statement that could jeopardize their "careers," or your editing reflects a buzz-kill complacency. But at least one cutting-edge visionary has emerged from your platoon of temporal minions, and that bold individual is Falling James.

-Chuckie CicerelloLos Angeles

ATTACK DOG

DEAR EDITOR:Congratulations on publishing Andrew Christie's loony-tunes letter in your October 9-15 issue, in which he compares Marc Haefele - who, along with the L.A. Times, has made serious allegations against Marcia Hanscom and the Wetlands Action Network - to a vicious dog and asks that he be reined in. The bankruptcy of some environmental extremists could not be more well-illustrated by this display of personal attack and crypto-fascism. Christie apparently believes in free speech only for those who agree with him. Let's return to a serious discussion of the issues raised by Haefele and the Times rather than continuing this ad hominem mudslinging.

-David Sternlight, Ph.D.Westwood