You could hug a Dalai today.
The Dalai is coming, the Dalai is coming! To Los Angeles! Saith the LA Times: The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism arrived in Los Angeles...
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. :(
Mike McBride kills a pig.
Mike McBride kills a boar. Well, he didn’t do the actual knifing, or shooting, of course, but he likes to take all the credit at...
Tiger Woods, Meet Mr. Oak.
Tiger Woods had an accident November 27th. Tree was unharmed, however. From the AP: The Orlando Sentinel reported that an orange and white barricade sat...
Want to take good pictures?
If you like the photos you see on this blog, most were by me, with my little Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1K 5MP Compact Digital Camera with...
Maybe the Los Angeles Times just doesn’t like Mexicans.
Who says you can’t teach an old dog grey lady new tricks? I’m talking, of course, about the LA Times (which they call the Old...
Too many big animals died in the Angeles Station Fire.
I was very sad about the 2nd column I wrote for the LA Weekly about animals killed in the horrific Angeles Station Fire. (I mean,...