Greetings and salutations

[mburbank]

LA is only typical of LA. But that's the great thing about America (And I'm serious when I say this) there are lots and lots of places that are only like themselves. Some of them are awful like LA and Northern Jersey, but some of them are amazing like Louisiana Cajun Country and upstate New York and big hefty chunks of New England and my own beloved Salem Masachusetts.

Many, many of my friends have moved to LA at one time or another for one reason or another, and it his chewed up and spat out all but one of them, who has found a way to love it there (and love is blind, you know).

Don't give up on America yet, Tom. Wait until, say, Wednesday morning.

Some Tesla Edison stuff, but not much, as the play I'm replacing was entirely about that (but to my mind not very good, which is sad as it's a great subject). A whole big chunk on the electrocution of Topsy the mad elephant, though, and the Dreamland fire.