Griffith Park, Interrupted

Oh, dear. Now I find out that my Contact Me tab on the top hasn’t been working for a while. For some reason, Yahoo mail, owned by ATT, has decided not only to give me repulsive ads on each page of my mail program, usually of women with their skin falling off, or peeling off, […]

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I happen to have an excellent sense of taste and smell, which is one of those make-it-up-to-you things you get when you have to wear glasses since third grade. I’ve even thought of getting a taster job at Baskin-Robbins, based in Burbank!
Anyway, I promised early on that I would tell you if Silver Lake started […]

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You guys know how much I love Griffith Park, don’t you?
And I don’t want to get all up in your face about this, but I think I could call myself an established artist, since millions of people see my cartoons every month, I have a couple of books out, I’ve been in galleries, etc. I […]

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Who’s that knocking at my door? Don’t cha wanna know? Don’t cha?
I’m not surprised that when I’m fortunate enough to have LA Observed link to me, (and Defamer, through LA Observed), I get many new visitors, but hundreds more? A friend and I were discussing this, and when I told her that I got […]

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Downtown, with a puddle to mark where Silver Lake should be.

Interrupted, or DEAD? As of tonight, the north side of Silver Lake, the Ivanhoe Reservoir, is also gone. The remains as seen from my window.
*Updated. I had to get permission from Medical News Today to quote this:
Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have become so high […]

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Three things of note since the Lake was forcibly drained on Thursday:

I saw a wary, rare opossum in someone’s very exposed front yard, obviously hungry and foraging.
I caught this comment at LACurbed yesterday (along with some new photos): “Now I know why I had a couple beautiful but somewhat disoriented ducks in my front […]

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