Posted in Silver Lake on Feb 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Ode to Trader Joe’s (Silver Lake)
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height of your scrunchy parking lot,
stingy compact spaces filled with SUVs, the line of cars winding out of sight on poor Hyperion,
the double parked trucks - your own trucks, Trader Joe trailer […]
Posted in People who don't know any better on Feb 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
H. David Nahai, new head honcho at LADWP, supports and enjoys the department’s “lactation service.”
The LA Times, in their usual tsking and clucking way, handholds the women participating in this employee program:
About 50 stern-faced mothers who work at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power confronted the agency’s board Tuesday and won the ability […]
Posted in Creatures, Important Stuff on Feb 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
The last time I rode a horse I got thrown off.
It was up in the Beachwood Canyon Stables, on a very beautiful trail in Griffith Park, with the steepest drops on either side you can imagine (which looked much higher sitting 4 feet up, on 4 feet). It was almost (his) dinnertime, I found out […]
Posted in Creatures on Feb 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Bats. I look forward to the Science File in the LA Times each Saturday! It’s only one section of a page, (and this weekend it’s only ONE item, bummer) but it’s usually an interesting little roundup of natural history, physics, and other tidbits. Sad news here, that bats are dying of a mysterious illness. […]
Posted in Breaking the 4th Wall on Feb 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Scuse me for changing the subject here. I just couldn’t believe this in the LA Times and many other papers today.
But for one day — this Sunday — nearly a dozen cartoonists of color will be drawing essentially the same comic strip, using irony to literally illustrate that point. In each strip, the artists […]
Posted in Creatures on Feb 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Opossums. Speaking of LA Observed, Kevin always finds the interesting stuff happening around LA! He has a poem, yes, a poem, by Larry Levis, about an opossum trying to cross a busy Santa Monica street, poor thing. He found it in another blog, The Millennial Pedestrian.
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis
At Wilshire & […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
