Silver Lake, bring out your water!
Three things of note since the Lake was forcibly drained on Thursday: I saw a wary, rare opossum in someone’s very exposed front yard, obviously...
New Yorker Cartoons for California
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.)

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. :(
Three things of note since the Lake was forcibly drained on Thursday: I saw a wary, rare opossum in someone’s very exposed front yard, obviously...
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...
My blog and website have just been moved to the updated server of my…server. They tried 3 times before and it didn’t work, but they...
Ode to Trader Joe’s (Silver Lake) How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and...
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,...
The last time I rode a horse I got thrown off. It was up in the Beachwood Canyon Stables, on a very beautiful trail in...