From beyond the grave
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Strange sort of suicide for The Walking Man.
I only bothered to read about the Walking Man because he was called The Silver Lake Walking Man. Then I saw a small memorial for him on the Silver Lake reservoir path when I ran last night. I hate memorials – they don’t have them back east. It’s like there’s no real land here, or people don’t understand what a cemetery is. The flowers die in a day in the blazing sun, so you have dead flowers in worthless vases, or a dirty teddy bear. Ugly, smelly, and no, it’s not the thought that counts when it’s such a thoughtless thing to do. Anyway, turns out he walked all over…
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Meeting to see coyotes graves in the Park on Oct 1, Wednesday.
I seem to get announcements of meetings, etc, through emails who got them from someone else. I’m not on Councilman LaBonge’s email list, and THAT’S OKAY. But someone sent me this: The Councilman would like to meet for a walk-through at the coyote encounter site at Zoo Dr. Thursday 10/1 @ 3 pm. We’re inviting public. The walk will begin in the Victory/Zoo Drive area. He didn’t know the exact location, but it should be easy to find. In my experience, “inviting the public” means anyone who’s a mind reader will find out about the meeting and join the city and neighborhood council regulars. It’s sort of an invitation by happenstance.…
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If you get in an accident with a truck, you’re dead meat.
And neither you nor your family will get bupkis. Case in point: the Interstate 5 pileup in a tunnel near Santa Clarita in October 2007, which killed 3 people and 33 trucks and a car. (33 trucks in a row? Remind me never to drive there.) The crashes turned the nearby tunnel into a fiery inferno, melting cars and people. (another reference to hell in SoCal.) Fatalities included a little boy who was burned alive in his father’s truck. The I-5 tunnel fire that killed 3 and burnt 34 trucks may not even have happened! Photo by AP, via Popular Photography. The Times article says: CHP investigators determined that Jose…
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Halloween is over, but I’m not.
I’m starting a new category here, From Beyond the Grave. Who isn’t fascinated with death? And who will speak for those who have departed untimely? I am, and I will. I spotted this item in the LA Times first, but instablogs has more details. Simon Rios is was an illegal who killed his wife with a pipe and strangled his 3 daughters. A week earlier he had raped and killed a neighbor girl: An illegal immigrant serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl apparently took his own life Thursday by hanging himself, authorities said. Simon Rios, 36, was found…