There's no center to L.A, and in many ways it's kind of a fantastically confused Petri dish of an anti-city.
But knowing, sophisticated attempts to replicate those things often traffic in their own kind of snobbery, confusing condescension with authenticity.
Readers of that well-reviewed first novel, brought as a signal to a waiting reporter, may recognize the Hot Bird as a close approximation of the kind of place Nathaniel, a confused, narcissistic Brooklyn writer, would spend his nights, drinking with his friends discussing "Lolita," relationships and book proposals.
Things are kind of confusing here for a number of reasons — not the least of which is the recent addition of Windows 10 S. The Surface Laptop launches exclusively with the education-focused operating system, a fact that led us to call the product "Microsoft's expensive answer to Chromebooks".
"The current doping agony," says John Hoberman, a University of Texas at Austin professor who has written extensively on performance drugs, "is a kind of very confused referendum on the future of human enhancement".
The only excuse for starting a novel with this kind of confusing group scene, rather than something more intimate, must be that they are important characters who play a large enough part in what follows to outweigh the disorientation they cause by all being introduced at once.
If you want to see Leto get really weird, watch him transform into a super old guy, in the future, with a narrative that is kind of confusing.
There's something to be said for the "featureless lozenge" style — it's nice for single-purpose devices like portable hard drives, for instance — but when you have to communicate rather complicated information like device status, battery life, and data throughput via a single LED, things get kind of confusing.
"They did some things with their secondary that kind of confused us a little bit," he said.
