Griffith Park, Interrupted

I had to go see my dentist (just a checkup!) in Beverly Hills last week. (Sometimes I wish there was something ELSE I could do in Beverly Hills, because it’s a trek to get there, but WHAT??)
Anyway, when I turned onto Beverly Blvd, there was one of those green electronic traffic warning signs, with a [...]

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Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks.
Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer:
This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer.
Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP needs to prevent its formation by [...]

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I sent this letter off yesterday in an email form on the DWP website, as they don’t have any phone or emails listed.
Comments/Questions:
The subject line is too short. I also think it’s unacceptable to have a board that is accountable to the city WITH NO EMAIL OR PHONE.
Please read my blog www.donnabarstow.com/park_blog/ about what [...]

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I can’t decide if it’s the awesome tats or the baggy duds…still stylish a decade later, apparently!
It’s always First Class to get an article written about you on the front page of the Times, and this time it’s the Avenues gang that hit the jackpot. I imagine gangs all over the city are envious, [...]

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Notice to Strangers coming from Google: Google STOLE this image from me. You are not original – about 20 people a day come to get this image. If you link directly to it, I will know, and will hunt you down and contact your server for theft. I’m just sayin.’
I knew they had threatened to [...]

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As you know, I had to use finesse and every Google trick in the book to get any response from the DWP about Silver Lake and why they were doing nothing about the drained quarry water. Finally I guessed at Joseph Ramallo’s email by using “first.last name@ladwp.com”, and Bob’s your uncle! He replied that he [...]

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