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One win, two more to go!
I wish I knew baseball better, because I’d put it in baseball terms. And I do know the Phillies won! My father is happy. Photo ©Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times. This is so wrong I had to reprint it here. Composite city, whoever you are, you don’t do it for me. Since I didn’t go to the Cultural Historic Affairs Commission meeting, I will quote someone who did, Bernadette Soter, Chair of Parks, River and Opens Space Committee (PROS). Hooray! This morning, by a vote of 3 to 1 (Barren, Louie and Scott in favor; Dake opposed), the Cultural Heritage Commission resolved in favor of recommending to City Council…
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Griffith Park isn’t like the homeless people, but it does need your help.
For those who haven’t been following the Griffith Park adventure, a few years ago there was a Master Plan proposed by Councilman Tom LaBonge for the future of the park. That’s okay. I like a man who sets boundaries and likes to talk about our future! However, this Master Plan includes a hotel, restaurants, a pier in the LA River (!), flying trams, and all sorts of things to turn the Park into Disneyland North. No word on if there’s room on the trams for the Griffith Park animals that will be squeezed out. Getting Landmark status from the Historic Cultural Commission is essential to protect the park from arbitrary…
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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.