Raising the Dead

Cathy Seipp has a characteristically witty piece in the WSJ this morning on the hoary subject of the cultural separation between the Big Orange and the Big Apple. But the truth of the matter is that all that’s over and has been for years. You can resurrect Chandler, Fitzerald, et al, all you want but they lived in a pre-707 (let alone Internet) world. There’s only one significant difference between LA and NY now – weather.