Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in People who don't know any better on Jun 27th, 2008
Hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned (and I wrote the book on hell.) To put it more gently, bloggers have the thirst of desert crawlers (it’s a cartoonist tech thing) when it comes to acknowledgments and links. So I was feeling sorry for myself, not having been linked anywhere in a couple of [...]
Posted in People who don't know any better on May 5th, 2008
I called Councilman LaBonge’s office on April 11 and left a message for Jullian Harris-Calvin. I also sent 2 emails to him. We both missed once, and then she never called me back for 10 days. She called me on April 25, Friday, at 5:30 PM from her car. UH-OH on her end! I was [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, People who don't know any better, Silver Lake on Mar 7th, 2008
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep. Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep – it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made [...]
Posted in People who don't know any better on Feb 20th, 2008
H. David Nahai, new head honcho at LADWP, supports and enjoys the department’s “lactation service.” The LA Times, in their usual tsking and clucking way, handholds the women participating in this employee program: About 50 stern-faced mothers who work at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power confronted the agency’s board Tuesday and won [...]
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Jan 24th, 2008
UPDATE again, thanks to Alpha-Male Andrew Breitbart. And it looks like the blood-thirsty commenters there all agree the tiger was the victim! Sousa’s father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Dhaliwal told him the three stood on a 3-foot-tall metal railing a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. “When they got down they heard [...]
Posted in People who don't know any better on Oct 28th, 2007
I love the street I live on. I think it’s the nicest street in Los Angeles, that’s how nuts I am about it. No sidewalks, not many lights, lots of trees, curves, views. I can’t seem to say goodbye to my old car (87 Toy), although I really have to sell it or get money [...]
