Compliment Corner
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Am I a hipster? Also, please define.
Somebody likes me, they really really like me! Daniel B. Honigman, a Chicago guy who writes for Huffington Post, among other places, and works for the Chicago Trib Online recently included Griffith Park, Interrupted, in his roundup of some of the best blogs in Los Angeles!!! The only other LA blog he has listed that I recognize is Eating L.A.. He says, however, that I’m probably not a hipster. I didn’t know it showed.
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I’m not just a one-note band.
I’ve been invited to contribute to a group blog: Mayor Sam’s Sister City. They’re kind of raucous and wild over there. Still, I guess someone thought I was a needed voice to whip them up even higher. I don’t know how often. I feel more at home here. But here’s my first post there. It’s about Felix the Cat, Councilman Tom LaBonge, and Griffith Park, and how the whole world is intertwined in some wonderful way. Photo by Christine Cotter of the LA Times.
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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 instance, last week I wrote about a press release that NSF issued about the bird balls in Ivanhoe. Because the manufacturer, Orange Products, emailed it to me, I thought that meant that they paid for the NSF release. Cat, but not LOLcat. However, in response to my inquiry, Cheryl Luptowski of NSF called me today to clarify that OP did not request or pay for the PR. (I corrected this.) She said they issued it because they have been getting an unusually high number of…
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The Coffee Table is the place to go in Silver Lake.
My last post about the HDPE bird balls the LADWP dumped in Silver Lake that have not been tested properly was quite shocking to people, as well it should be. Laurie Pepper left a comment here that I thought might interest other readers: I’ve been sending emails to my local neighborhood watch group here by the lake. The results: a meeting is planned soonest by the Neighborhood council. Meanwhile, at 10:30 AM Monday the 21st, a small group of those I emailed are meeting at the Coffee Table — to discuss the whole thing. Thanks for your really informative info. This is exactly the sort of thing I hoped would…