Posted in LADWP, The Land the Times Forgot on Jul 30th, 2008 5 Comments »
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 The Land the Times Forgot, Creatures on Jul 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand.
Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit.
Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery cages for farm animals.
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Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
One of my more popular posts is my April post on how the Times covered the Avenues gang: The LA Times has a secret crush on the Avenues gang!
A lot of looky-loos have been stopping by today, too, of course, because the Avenues and Drew Street gangs are on the front page again, and […]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Jun 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
On April 16th my neighbor had her catalytic converter stolen out of her SUV. (I had heard the loud roar when it started up, and this told me why.) I told another friend who has 2 SUVs (and it’s just her and her husband. Don’t ask.), and she said she had read in a Long […]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot, Silver Lake, Important Stuff on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Late this afternoon someone from the state called me to say DWP has promised to start refilling Silver Lake at 8 AM on Wednesday. There will be a press conference. Why?
I was very happy to get the news, but you heard it here first: I predict (very unhappily) that they will drag out the refilling […]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
I can’t decide if it’s the awesome tats or the baggy duds…still stylish a decade later, apparently!
It’s always First Class to get an article written about you on the front page of the Times, and this time it’s the Avenues gang that hit the jackpot. I imagine gangs all over the city are envious, […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
