Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, LADWP on Nov 2nd, 2009
Made a great discovery for my first blog post in the LA Weekly! And I didn’t get any comments, but I got 3 tweets, which was nice. L.A. mystery: Fountain of Youth natural spring in Griffith Park? Did Fern Dell residents living along the southern edge of Griffith Park find a Fountain of Youth? The [...]
Posted in LADWP on Dec 16th, 2008
I hate the annual Christmas Light Festival in Griffith Park. The idea that the cash-poor city of Los Angeles decides that wasting tons of electricity is the best way to celebrate Christmas is almost as obnoxious as the truly knockout fumes from the cars if you get stuck in traffic there. Or the traffic snarls [...]
Posted in LADWP on Aug 8th, 2008
This black mass in Silver Lake is millions of bird balls, made with big oil, from Exxon or Mobil. Hundreds of thousands of LA residents will drink this water. Black bird balls fill Ivanhoe Reservoir; only one corner of clear open water remains, until they get more bags. These are untested HDPE plastic balls, cooking [...]
Posted in LADWP, The Land the Times Forgot on Jul 30th, 2008
Ever wonder why water in bottles has an expiration date? It’s the plastic. It does bad things as it dissolves. Heard John and Ken talking about it this afternoon, while discussing emergency earthquake supplies. Not only do you have to keep checking the batteries and canned goods – should you go the nervous ant-like way [...]
Posted in LADWP on Jul 13th, 2008
It’s not just H. David Nahai anymore. At LA Observed, which I read at least a couple of times daily, Kevin mentions Ron Kaye’s blog, RonKayeaLA.com. (Ron is the former editor of Daily News.) This is generous of him, because Ron totally disses Kevin for a suck-up bio on H. David Nahai that Kevin wrote [...]
Posted in LADWP on Jul 11th, 2008
I actually added a category yesterday called dwp. That’s sad. What does that say about me? Am I the nerdiest geek ever? Must I pay attention to the utility commission now? Only H. David Nahai can save me now. By being the Superman I know he wants to be, and fixing up these egregious problems [...]
