Compliment Corner
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I get a Paypal donation, but not from Tom LaBonge.
The day they started to refill Silver Lake I got an interesting email. Patt Morrison had read my blog and wanted to interview me on her KPCC show about the one year commemoration of the Griffith Park fire!! Quel honor! I can’t tell you how pleased I am when readers stay more than a few minutes here, and I saw that Minneapolis Public Radio had read for a good 40 minutes, so I was thrilled, but still so surprised at the invitation. Unfortunately, I got the note very last minute, and couldn’t do it, but fortunately they got the lovely and talented Bernadette Soter of the PROS committee, to do…
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Most Wanted by the
LAPD ! No, I mean the LADWP!!!OH MY GAH!!!!!!! One might think that H. David Nahai, newly crowned king of dwp, might be first on everyone’s mind as a bad guy after the recent well -publicized promise to raise rates, and he’s my personal fave bad guy for his draining of Silver Lake, and refusal to give it back. (Hmm. Well, that could still be true.) But who’s most wanted now? Moi!!!! Remember that SNL skit when Dan Aykroyd suggests giving kids a bag of rocks for Christmas? I guess someone gave them to the DWP. They’ve been up for almost 2 months. Silver Lake is surrounded by a 15′ fence (I think) and barbed wire,…
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I get an email from an engineer about bird poop.
Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks. Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer: This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer. Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP needs to prevent its formation by reducing sunlight on the water. And LADWP cannot take the reservoirs out of service without risking water reliability. Many pipes are made out of HDPE (as are the bird balls) and it is approved by the National Science Foundation for use in drinking water conveyance. I’d rather have HDPE in my water than bird poop. What LADWP really…
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Come for the drinks, stay for the food.
Who’s that knocking at my door? Don’t cha wanna know? Don’t cha? I’m not surprised that when I’m fortunate enough to have LA Observed link to me, (and Defamer, through LAO), I get many new visitors, but hundreds more? A friend and I were discussing this, and when I told her that I got even more visits than when Editor & Publisher mentioned me, she said, “Well, that makes sense. Kevin is the conduit to the West for everyone on the East Coast. Who else are they going to call?” LA Observed’s latest mention of me was the unfortunate and violent draining of Silver Lake. Of course, everyone likes to…