Posted in Silver Lake, Compliment Corner on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The last thing a blogger wants to do is write about him or herself, but sometimes it becomes necessary to use the “I” pronoun.
For instance, last week I wrote about a press release that NSF issued about the bird balls in Ivanhoe. Because the manufacturer, Orange Products, emailed it to me, I thought that […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Compliment Corner on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Compliment Corner on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
The day they started to refill Silver Lake I got an interesting email. Patt Morrison had read my blog and wanted to interview me on her KPCC show about the one year commemoration of the Griffith Park fire!! Quel honor! I can’t tell you how pleased I am when readers stay more than a minute […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Compliment Corner on May 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
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, that […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Compliment Corner, Everyone's a Photographer on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks.
Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer in Ventura County who read my blog:
This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer.
Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP […]
Posted in Breaking the 4th Wall, Compliment Corner on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
