Breaking the 4th Wall
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Me, me, me
I updated the About Me page/tab to add that my cartoons are national (Parade Magazine, in newspapers every Sunday) (I’m in most weeks, but not all, see why in the tab). Also, Pasadena Weekly editor says something nice about me here!
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Question on trees: living or dead?
Here is the second recent comment I wanted to respond to: Does anybody know (specifically) who’s in charge of ordering trees to be cut at Griffith Park? I’ve been a frequent runner on many of the trails in Griffith Park over the past 5 years and I’m intimately familiar with its pre and post-fire foliage. I witness the removal of many trees and shrubs that were clearly not dead after the fire. I was in the park yesterday (9.30.07) in one of the many cordoned-off areas of near the merry-go-round parking lot. To my dismay, I discovered that about 7 of the large pines, that are scorched on about 70%…
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Why start this?
I don’t go to Griffith Park all that much. I don’t know why it means so much to me, but it does. I grew up in a city that respects and loves its park, and I expected to find that here, but LA ignores its park! I run there a few times a week. I’ve been a volunteer at meetings of the PROS (Parks, River, and Open Space) Committee for 3 years, because after trying to fix some of the BIG problems there by myself for a while, I was happy to know that in PROS there was a lot more manpower to help me out. When I haven’t been…