I’ve been invited to present at several conferences this month. First was the Montgomery Technology Conference in Santa Monica, (Monty was the group that coordinated the sale of MySpace to Fox, btw), they also hired Kenny Loggins to do a private conference immediately following the speaking, I took a photo of Kenny rocking out on my phone here. Then I sat on a panel called, “A user-generated star is born” at the Digital Media Summit in Hollywood, and next week you can find me at OMMA-Hollywood speaking on a panel called, “So You’re Ready for Video, Now What?” Strange that with all the talk of the remergence of Silicon Valley, that all three of these speaking engagements have required that I travel to the bay area’s all-but-forgotten big step-brother, Los Angeles.
You bay area natives will note that I did not preface the word Los Angeles with the required, “I don’t really like LA, but I had to go there…” Yes, it’s true, we folks from San Francisco try to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN, that people know we don’t identify with pink corvettes and fake boobs like Angelenos do. This is a phenomenon that sort of reminds me of folks from Boston feeling a rivalry with New Yorkers…only the New Yorkers don’t know there’s a rivalry. I’ve noticed that LA natives absolutely LOVE San Francisco…they visit, they heap praise on our culture, our beautiful city, our food and wine and shoot countless films here. While us of the arty, pale and oh-so-much more cultured population of San (don’t call it Frisco) Francisco have to preface each reference of LA with a “I don’t really care for LA too much…BUT, I had to go down there to visit my sister and…” I think it’s high time we in SF, give LA the praise it deserves: as the capitol of all that looks good and takes an hour and a half to drive to, no matter how far away it is…
