If LA were an animal...

I just realized that if Los Angeles were an animal it'd be an Angler Fish. Shining it's light, beckoning you with a bright beacon, saying "Come to me. Come to me. Look how beautiful" and once you're close enough it swallows you whole. The trick is realizing LA is a dangerous beast and learning how to tame it and appease it and turn it into your ally instead. Then you can live in the light without fearing the dark.

Just don't fool yourself into thinking it still doesn't think of you as dinner.