Posted in Meetings as Theatre on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
There’s been a lot of press lately about Griffith Park’s move to get historic-cultural status - that is, be a designated Cultural Landmark. I thought, why all the fuss and the flurries of emails? It seems obvious that a park with a rather lurid past (look up Colonel Griffith and prepare to learn), that […]
Posted in People who don't know any better, Meetings as Theatre, Forest Fire on Aug 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
There were tv crews and everything at the meeting on arsonists tonight. Carolyn Ramsay, of Councilman Tom LaBonge’s office, was at the door handing out important pieces of paper. I reached for one, and she said the agenda was on the seats. There weren’t any seats left, so I held my hand out to her […]
Posted in Meetings as Theatre on Jun 16th, 2008 38 Comments »
Okay, I think I can talk about it now.
This was soon after the Griffith Park fire a year ago. You might have heard about it: the one that burned 800 acres, 25% of the park, and almost burned many Los Feliz homes? Thousands of trees and animals and birds died.
Councilman Tom LaBonge was one of […]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Meetings as Theatre on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Thursday night was okay. Lost was great, but that wasn’t what I meant.
There was the Neighborhood Griffith Park Council Utility Annual Budget Parks and Recreation committee Dinner at Traveltown, which is where all the old trains hang out in the park. The herd of us were rounded up by Councilman Tom LaBonge. I wasn’t […]
Posted in Meetings as Theatre on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
You guys know how much I love Griffith Park, don’t you?
And I don’t want to get all up in your face about this, but I think I could call myself an established artist, since millions of people see my cartoons every month, I have a couple of books out, I’ve been in galleries, etc. I […]
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 […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
