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July 27, 2007
By: Kevin Drum

THE REAL OC....Finally, my hometown of Irvine gets written up in Slate. And any publicity is good publicity, right?

Kevin Drum 1:18 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (11)

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Kevin, you're from Irvine? Hah! So someone out there does know what goes on behind the Orange Curtain...real estate empires are the least of our worries; when the Trinity Broadcasting Network is 2 freeway exits down (think the crazy lady Tammy Faye-look-alike with the purple hair and fake lashes) and an airport named after John Wayne, plus a political culture that might even make Barry Goldwater blink, it's an interesting place to live...

Posted by: Adam on July 27, 2007 at 1:29 AM | PERMALINK

Kevin, you're too old to have Irvine as a hometown.

Posted by: PS on July 27, 2007 at 2:14 AM | PERMALINK

Maybe not so much eh?

Posted by: bmaz on July 27, 2007 at 2:34 AM | PERMALINK

Irvine ?

Oh yea, that group of open fields just west of that Marine Air Facility where those blimp hangars are and all...

I remember that place

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy" - Benjamin Disraeli

Posted by: daCascadian on July 27, 2007 at 3:31 AM | PERMALINK

The writer is clearly and idiot with no idea of what the OC is about. Comparing it to NJ and LA to NYC, clearly the man has no clue. I stopped reading after that.

Posted by: The fake fake al on July 27, 2007 at 10:44 AM | PERMALINK

No, no...Irvine is the Long Island to LA's NYC.

Go Anteaters.

Posted by: Vincent on July 27, 2007 at 12:37 PM | PERMALINK

And, of course, Slate gets the OC wrong too. The ignoble giant taht was Ameriquest is NOT based in Irvine. It is based in Orange. But, being a typical Irvinian, Kevin probably craves the attention so much that he gleefully accepts credit for more than his fair share, even when it is tragedy.

Posted by: SoCalAnon on July 27, 2007 at 1:27 PM | PERMALINK

When we first moved to Irvine from Santa Ana (for the schools, of course), I felt the place had all the personality of a styrofoam coffee cup. After a while, I came to like the winding avenues and dearth of 7-11 stores. As far as being in the thrall of real estate developers, that's a true statement for all of South County.

Posted by: DonInCal on July 27, 2007 at 1:43 PM | PERMALINK

Interesting that the expression "went tapioca" has begun to usurp older expressions such as "went haywire" or "went tits up".

Posted by: Doc at the Radar Station on July 27, 2007 at 1:49 PM | PERMALINK

Which Irvine? Alberta, Canada, Kentucky, USA, California, USA, Irvinebank, Australia?

Posted by: Catmoves on July 27, 2007 at 4:22 PM | PERMALINK

People in Irvine are generally the type that object vociferously to the prospect of a new commercial airport being located on the old El Toro MCAS site, and then complain equally loudly about the amount of traffic on the way to LAX or John Wayne / Orange County, and the flight delays at those airports.

Posted by: Donald from Hawaii, and formerly from Pasadena on July 27, 2007 at 5:36 PM | PERMALINK




 

 

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