People who don't know any better
Stupids
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Tom LaBonge says the shoeless people are more important than Griffith Park.
There were tv crews and everything at the meeting on arsonists tonight. Carolyn Ramsay, of Councilman LaBonge’s office, was at the door handing out important pieces of paper. I reached for one, and she said the agenda was on the seats. There weren’t any seats left, so I held my hand out to her again, and when I took one of the important pieces of paper, she took it back from me and said, “If you don’t mind, please just take one of the papers on the seats. These are for the press.” Do I look so very unimportant? Is it my blue guileless eyes? I wore a nice skirt…
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No linky-love from Gawker?
Hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned (and I wrote the book on hell.) To put it more gently, bloggers have the thirst of desert crawlers (it’s a cartoonist tech thing) when it comes to acknowledgments and links. So I was feeling sorry for myself, not having been linked anywhere in a couple of days, and I googled myself, for a change of pace. To my surprise, I saw my name listed in a Gawker blog. You may have heard of Gawker, one of the biggest blogs in the world. Or chain of blogs, actually. This was in Gizmodo, which I never heard of, but which is so so…
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…cause you’re just not worth it, Silver Lake!*
I called Councilman LaBonge’s office on April 11 and left a message for Jullian Harris-Calvin. I also sent 2 emails to him. We both missed once, and then she never called me back for 10 days. She called me on April 25, Friday, at 5:30 PM from her car. UH-OH on her end! I was home!! All sorts of pre-planned, party line bs. She said Silver Lake will be filled within the next 2 weeks – no later than mid June. Hoping for June 1. Why the delay? It had to “dry out,” like a washcloth. Why, they have a letter from the state commending them! She’d send it to…
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Silver Lake, drained of life. (updated)
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep. Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep – it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made up that depth to sound like they were doing more work.) Today I went over there to take some pictures, and many people stopped to chat with me, as people do when they watch something awful. Silver Lake was built in 1907, and is actually 2 separate reservoirs, divided by a concrete barrier and a…
