Sean:

Please accept our heartiest congratulations on your remarkable milestone. It’s always heartening to see a local enterprise do good – especially when that endeavor brings our world a little closer.

With Wishes For Continued Success,

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department

MetBlogs seems to be blowing up in the last month.

Congrats!

sean, your miami link is broken. (it’s missing the s in metblogs.)

Agreement here.

Los Angeles, at least in the minds of its own inhabitants, has been more in competition with New York and Chicago, rather than Miami. They have very little in common other than beaches, palm trees and a large Spanish-speaking population (Los Angeles mostly Mexican, Miami mostly Cuban/Caribbean.)

The same dichotomy here with any supposed rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is something San Francisco residents have been preoccupied, or more likely, obsessed with for decades. While Bay area denizens have been fuming over “plastic” L.A. and its flaky residents who just refuse to have the good taste to admit who much more refined and significant San Francisco is, Angelenos have been over-concerned with Madison Avenue, The New York Times, and its competition with the Big Apple on the pop culture landscape, seeing themselves as residents of the sunny, edge-city yin to New York’s gloomy Europe- Junior yang. Meanwhile, San Francisco is nothing more than a nice place to go for a romantic weekend at a bed and breakfast and a cable car ride.