Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in LADWP, Silver Lake on May 30th, 2008
I see that LA Curbed talks about the bird balls soon to be thrown in Ivanhoe Reservoir. Finally! I am not alone! White bags filled with black bird balls of doom on the north end of Silver Lake. The title there is punnish (which I hate), but they always have good comments at LA Curbed. [...]
Posted in Creatures on May 29th, 2008
LADWP is spending a cool $2 million on bird balls to repel birds from Silver Lake and Echo Park Lake. I talk about why this is a bad idea here. Longterm: bad environment, money down the drain, possible health problems, bad practices. Short term is obvious, of course: that it eliminates birds from the whole [...]
Posted in Creatures, Everyone's a Photographer on May 28th, 2008
Note to readers: I have so many looking for help for their horse’s injured leg that I’ve updated the info in here. I want all the horses to get better! When I saw the picture of Eight Belles on the ground, of course I immediately thought of Barbaro. Like so many, I cried when they [...]
Posted in Creatures on May 28th, 2008
I’ve never really understood why blogs feel the necessity to put down the MSM all the time. And locally, that means the Times. Of course, there is a lot that I disagree with, and part of that is their slant, but I still respect it, read it, and enjoy some of it. Gruesome photo of [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on May 27th, 2008
I went to hear a panel of journalists talking about blogs and investigative journalism last week at the LA Press Club, and I realized, Hey! That’s me! I was so furious about the fire in gp a year ago that took FOUR DAYS to put out, that I started this blog. If you were around [...]
Posted in Creatures on May 27th, 2008
Be your own Indiana Jones and discover rare species in SoCal parks in a supercool event this weekend: Bioblitz. Anyone can sign up to go out with a scientist or naturalist to hunt for mammals, reptiles, butterflies, moss, ferns, birds, etc, in any park that’s listed! They even have night hunts for owls and bats! [...]
