Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Important Stuff, Silver Lake on Apr 12th, 2008
Remember how I told you the LA DWP didn’t have email? Now they do! And I’ll give it to you at the end, along with a phone number, if you want to skip down there with your own important questions. Or complaints. I called Joseph Ramallo, the person who signed the DWP public letter on [...]
Posted in Creatures, Important Stuff on Feb 12th, 2008
The last time I rode a horse I got thrown off. It was up in the Beachwood Canyon Stables, on a very beautiful trail in gp, with the steepest drops on either side you can imagine (which looked much higher sitting 4 feet up, on 4 feet). It was almost (his) dinnertime, I found out [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Important Stuff on Dec 8th, 2007
I thought I should add to my post below that the LA Department of Water and Power has more of a true safety issue than Street Services: they have to trim trees that come too close to high-power wires. The story they have repeated to me several times is that once a palm frond touched [...]
Posted in Important Stuff, Oogli Trees on Dec 7th, 2007
Someday, whether you like it or not, LA Street Services or the LADWP will send uneducated, unskilled men, with no supervision, to steal from you. They will take thousands of dollars from the value of your home and your neighborhood, dirty your air, make the street hotter and your air conditioner work harder, uglify your [...]
Posted in Important Stuff on Jul 25th, 2007
It’s kind of like The Secret. You just say it over and over to yourself, and think good thoughts. Or you tell reporters about it, that works, too. The park was hurting, hurting bad. As I was grieving, the news that the park would be getting $50 million in emergency relief and recovery from the [...]
Posted in Important Stuff, Meetings as Theatre on Jul 12th, 2007
The fire was long over, but the tree-cutting continued. I was quite upset. I just couldn’t accept that the best thing for a park that had lost thousands of trees, would be to tear out 1000 more trees. Not to mention the growing erosion problem. And I felt like a wimp because I hadn’t crossed [...]
