"I strongly object for the city to be overly welcoming…"
The latest installment of Lunada Bay: How to Lose a PR War takes us to a PV Estates council meeting dedicated to providing bluff top seating.
“We don’t want to start going down a slippery slope — what I would strongly object to is for the city to be overly welcoming,” said Lunada Bay’s Sara Wood while providing a delicious sound bite sure to be rehashed constantly by the media during the coming class action suit.
The powers that be agree.
“I don’t think we should be going anywhere near Lunada Bay right now,” said committee Chairman Charles Peterson. “The consequences of putting boulders and inviting people to enjoy the scene of Lunada Bay right now, I don’t know if it’s a good thing.”
This comes hot on the heels of last week’s LA Times article detailing the steps the city took to avoid the appearance of xenophobic privilege while continuing to benefit from it.
What will the future bring? Will the public ever be free to visit the splendor of their betters?
Only time will tell. In the meantime we’ll have to make do with the entertaining spectacle of rich peoples’ discomfort.
(Read designer Dave Carson’s illuminating account of living and surfing among “miserable, absurd, asshole localism” at Lunada Bay here.)
It would be better if the geriatric speed freak thugs from the North Shore and the white privileged realtors of Palos Verdes all lined up and shot each other with muskets on the count of three 15th century style.
Rory, you only had to mention “wave pool” and you would have scored the Beach Grit trifecta. Wave Pools, David Carson and Lunada Bay. All 3 as predictable as each other.
On a different note. Please tell me someone has mentioned the new ad with the black eye mask thing. It took me a few days to actually work out what it was. Takes my mind to places it would rather not visit again. Scary shit.