Posted in Creatures, Important Stuff on Feb 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
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 Griffith Park, 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 No Comments »
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 Oogli Trees, Important Stuff on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
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 No Comments »
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 Meetings as Theatre, Important Stuff on Jul 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Meetings as Theatre, Forest Fire, Important Stuff on Jun 14th, 2007 35 Comments »
I can understand why homeowners have been nervous nellies about pointing fingers at the fire department, really I can. Who needs firemen most? Desperate housewives and homeowners. But the LA Fire Department did such a craptacular job in the recent Griffith Park fire that maybe it’s time for someone to point a finger. So […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
Griffith Park and Silver Lake blog, by Donna Barstow.
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