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Bakersfield: 'nostalgia more than future'
The author of the blog, Beat Diaspora: Beats, Buses, Bricks, visited Bakersfield recently and drew parallels between Buck's blinged-out Pontiac and rap music's excesses. But it was a visit to the Black Gold exhibit at the Kern County Museum which really got the author going: I choose to live a lifestyle that minimizes the need to use an automobile, although I understand perfectly well that much of America still lives auto-dependent lifestyles. To that extent, Bakersfield seemed no different from most sprawling towns that aren’t quite cities across America. But the blithe disregard about the consumption of gasoline — in short, the historical pride in oil, which as of late has become such an ugly symbol — is to me incomprehensible. 0 comments from 0 users
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