Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in From beyond the grave, Silver Lake on Jul 27th, 2010
I only bothered to read about the Walking Man because he was called The Silver Lake Walking Man. Then I saw a small memorial for him on the Silver Lake reservoir path when I ran last night. I hate memorials – they don’t have them back east. It’s like there’s no real land here, or [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Nov 6th, 2008
Prison Break had a very intense episode this week. The title,”Greatness Achieved” apparently refers to my favorite character, Brad Bellick. Formerly a very scary, mean prison guard in Fox River, who delighted in throwing together newbies and hardcore homos, some viewers hated him because he MAY have killed a cat belonging to one of the [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Oct 17th, 2008
Came across an interesting story by the AP a couple of weeks ago: East L.A. — birthplace of the lowrider, Los Lobos and Oscar de la Hoya — is to Mexican-Americans what Harlem is to the black community. Now it wants to become its own city. Commonly mistaken for a part of Los Angeles, East [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Oct 2nd, 2008
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Inside Silver Lake!! The Silver Lake monster reported in the fifties(?) turned out to be…not so much, so let’s hope this works out as smoothly. As I investigated the composition of the Silver Lake walkway, on the east side of Silver Lake (finding out in the process that instead of soft dirt, it’s [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Sep 30th, 2008
I’ve been running around the Silver Lake walkway for almost a year and a half, since the May ’07 fire in Griffith Park. This summer I got shin splints so bad I couldn’t even think, and the pain would stay for days. I took aspirin, and tried to massage my legs, or stretch them, but [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Aug 16th, 2008
The LAFD is at it again, and Silver Lake is there to help. No, I don’t have the LAFD blog bookmarked, but I live on the crest of the hill, so the water helicopters fly right over on their way to the lake, uncomfortably close, and so that’s a heads up to me. (Fortunately they’re [...]
