GLOW in Santa Monica

So, these are some of the pictures I took from "Glow" in Santa Monica last Friday. It was rather disappointing to say the least. The exhibits were pretty lame for the most part, and there was way too many people there. The event wasn't well organized, there were no bathrooms (aside from the beach itself), and there was a motley crew of various L.A. freaks from brahs, skaters, bums, gangsters, yippies, hippies, goths, tweekers, teenagers, hip-sters, posers, moms, middle-aged hippies, whole Hispanic/Latino families camping out at the beach, and everything in between. In-fact, that was the most interesting thing about the event-all the different people there. However, from eaves-dropping on various passerbyers the general consensus was that people were very disappointed by the event, and felt very uncomfortable being around so many different types of people. They masked their discomfort by talking shit about the various groups they weren't a member of.

Despite the diversity of the L.A. area, most of that diversity keeps to itself. It's very rare that everyone mixes together like a true community. Most of the time people just talk shit about the different people in the city they don't understand. That's how diversity is celebrated in America. We love to tout it, but we really don't like living with one another (unless we're separated by out suburbs and we're watching it take place on the boob-tube). Putting everyone together for one night turned out to be an interesting social experiment. I'm surprised no one got seriously injured. Oh wait, they did.

All-in-all, it was a fun experience, but I wouldn't do it again. And I doubt the city of Santa Monica will either. It was completely unsafe to have that many people in that area at once. I'm surprised the pier or the small catwalk over the PCH didn't collapse.

Stacy is not "glowing" from the experience of "glow". The lack of restrooms were even more of a problem for the women.