Griffith Park and Silver Lake, Fire and Water.
Posted in People who don't know any better on Jun 27th, 2008
Hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned (and I wrote the book on hell.)
To put it more gently, bloggers have the thirst of desert crawlers (it’s a cartoonist tech thing) when it comes to acknowledgments and links.
So I was feeling sorry for myself, not having been linked anywhere in a couple of days, [...]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Jun 27th, 2008
One of my more popular posts is my April post on how the Times covered the Avenues gang: The LA Times has a secret crush on the Avenues gang!
A lot of looky-loos have been stopping by today, too, of course, because the Avenues and Drew Street gangs are on the front page again, and [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Jun 25th, 2008
Season Six of Dancing With the Stars was such a disappointment. I mean, why should I waste my valuable teevee time on something so contrived?
First off, Kristi Yamaguchi was a total ringer. That was so exciting, watching her get 10s from beginning to end. /sarcasm. And unfortunately, the poor girl has no charm [...]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Jun 24th, 2008
On April 16th my neighbor had her catalytic converter stolen out of her SUV. (I had heard the loud roar when it started up, and this told me why.) I told another friend who has 2 SUVs (and it’s just her and her husband. Don’t ask.), and she said she had read in a Long [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Jun 22nd, 2008
Kevin has written about this before in LA Observed, and I signed up standby last time, but they were full. I emailed Will Camp-bell, who did get to go, and he said it was a blast. So this time I acted like a grown-up, and signed up BEFORE the last day, and got in.
The Hart [...]
Posted in Compliment Corner, Silver Lake on Jun 22nd, 2008
My last post about the HDPE bird balls the LADWP dumped in Silver Lake that have not been tested properly was quite shocking to people, as well it should be. Laurie Pepper left a comment here that I thought might interest other readers:
I’ve been sending emails to my local neighborhood watch group here by the [...]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
Griffith Park and Silver Lake, Fire and Water.
