This is by no means a new question, but it's still one of my favorites.* I was 19 or thereabouts, living in the San Gabriel Valley (not even THE Valley, the OTHER valley), half-heartedly attending Christian college, when I discovered a small contingent of students who would carpool into West Hollywood most weekends. The first weekend I decided to go along -- strictly for observational purposes, of course, wink wink -- they went to a…