This is what a million dollars looks like.
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...
Category: Griffith Park
Learning about City Hall from the treetops.
It’s all about Griffith Park, baby! Let’s keep it wild and safe. And let’s keep Silver Lake birds and animals alive, and the water clean.
I’ll bring up all the things that annoy me, and what I’m doing to change them. Your comments and opinions are welcome. (Assuming you’re not one of the annoying ones.) (Just kidding.) (I hope.)
Curious about this Silver Lake runner and Griffith Park ranter? Donna Barstow.
I’ve lived in Silver Lake and Los Feliz for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. We do good things.
Jill Stewart writes about how I fight City Hall.
I wrote several articles for the LA Weekly, including my fave: CAN CANADA’S KILLER COYOTE SPECIES SHOW UP IN LOS ANGELES?
Editorial in Los Feliz Ledger, another casualty of Covid, as of December, 2021. :(
Hellfire in LA, the Devil in Manitoba.
lao found a fascinating article in the Ventura County Star today. Firefighters are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the ground climbed...
Plastic, plastic, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
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...
Wrong trucks for the job; condors happy, anyway.
You probably heard about the small fire in gp near the zoo yesterday. I couldn’t see it, but I knew something was up when helicopters...
Two good things about the LA Times, and one bad.
I was going to write just the good things. I hate that German word that means happiness in the misfortune of others. And in general,...
The original lie by DWP about Silver Lake, and geeky stuff like Celcius.
The last thing a blogger wants to do is write about him or herself, but sometimes it becomes necessary to use the “I” pronoun. For...