Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in People who don't know any better on May 5th, 2008
I called Councilman LaBonge’s office on April 11 and left a message for Jullian Harris-Calvin. I also sent 2 emails to him. We both missed once, and then she never called me back for 10 days. She called me on April 25, Friday, at 5:30 PM from her car. UH-OH on her end! I was [...]
Posted in Meetings as Theatre on May 4th, 2008
Thursday night was okay. Lost was great, but that wasn’t what I meant. There was the Neighborhood Griffith Park Council Utility Annual Budget Parks and Recreation Committee Dinner at Traveltown, which is where all the old trains hang out in the park. The herd of us were rounded up by Councilman Tom LaBonge. I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Compliment Corner, Silver Lake on May 3rd, 2008
OH MY GAH!!!!!!! One might think that H. David Nahai, newly crowned king of dwp, might be first on everyone’s mind as a bad guy after the recent well -publicized promise to raise rates, and he’s my personal fave bad guy for his draining of Silver Lake, and refusal to give it back. (Hmm. Well, [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on May 2nd, 2008
I just talked with Inspector Travis of the LAFD for this area, and he said there is a fire in Elysian Park at this very minute where they could have used slk water. Oh well, too bad. We don’t have any. I went to a meeting last night in Griffith Park, and they are setting [...]
Posted in Fire Department 101 on May 2nd, 2008
Cause then you’d be stuck, wouldn’t you. We don’t have any water. The last couple weeks I wake up in a panic, and run to the window to see if by any chance dwp has started to refill the lake. The Times warned about the Big One coming, like Northridge or worse. If water pipes [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on May 1st, 2008
It’s been 54 days and counting that Silver Lake has been empty. I don’t think I can ever forgive the dwp for this flagrant misuse of power, capriciously deciding who gets water and who doesn’t. If you found yourself getting hot and thirsty this last weekend, think about the birds and animals in that area, [...]
