{"id":703,"date":"2012-06-19T00:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=703"},"modified":"2012-06-19T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:38:41","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e27-spoiled-by-san-francisco-with-jesse-thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E27: Spoiled By San Francisco with Jesse Thorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Jesse Thorn\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/content\/4631663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"400\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down nine stories above Westlake with Jesse Thorn, host of Public Radio International&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/shows\/bullseye\">Bullseye<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0proprietor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/\">Maximum Fun<\/a> radio and podcast empire, and host of the men&#8217;s style web series <em><a href=\"http:\/\/putthison.com\/\">Put This On<\/a><\/em>. They discuss what it takes for <em>GQ <\/em>to introduce you as a guy who hates Los Angeles; the points of starkest division between northern and southern California, including burritos and new-aginess; his time growing up in San Francisco&#8217;s inner Mission district, where he was spoiled by the ease of getting around and much else besides; coming of age amid the city&#8217;s crack epidemic, nearly witnessing shootings, and dodging batteries thrown from rooftops; neighborhoods as extensions of your home into the outside world; the vast distances one must traverse in Los Angeles, and the toll they takes on one&#8217;s ability to &#8220;pop on over&#8221; anywhere; <em>Put This On<\/em>&#8216;s exploration of the great men&#8217;s style cities, including New York, London, and Milan (&#8220;the Los Angeles of Italy&#8221;); the utilitarianism of dress in America, and the prevalence of surfer and skater traditions in southern California; the twin tendencies of white Angelenos to expensively project the image of not caring about clothes and to nevertheless pay close, anxious attention to their physical attractiveness; and the knowledge that neither he nor anyone else can never go home again to the old now-gentrified San Francisco neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e27-spoiled-by-san-francisco-with-jesse-thorn\">here<\/a>\u00a0or on iTunes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down nine stories above Westlake with Jesse Thorn, host of Public Radio International&#8217;s Bullseye,\u00a0proprietor of the Maximum Fun radio and podcast empire, and host of the men&#8217;s style web series Put This On. They discuss what it takes for GQ to introduce you as a guy who hates Los Angeles; the points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}