Silver Lake
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The Times makes a joke about bird ball pollution in Silver Lake.*
Now the LA Times is FINALLY noticing what I’ve been talking about for months: the bird balls are coming, the bird balls are coming…and have arrived. They have pictures up there. Photo from LA Times blog. I would write to them to get permission, but every time I do that, no one answers. The writer compares it to Chuck E. Cheese balls. That’s funny, isn’t it? She also writes that Silver Lake residents will complain because the balls look ugly. Wow! Edgy! The LA Times really knows how to blog now! Or not. *Updated: The Times hasn’t “gotten around” to publishing my comment there yet, so because I think it’s…
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HDPE plastic bird balls pollute Ivanhoe. Party on.
I see that LA Curbed talks about the bird balls soon to be thrown in Ivanhoe Reservoir. Finally! I am not alone! White bags filled with black bird balls of doom on the north end of Silver Lake. The title there is punnish (which I hate), but they always have good comments at LA Curbed. I photographed those bags a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t know they held the evil balls themselves. The writer also quoted the DWP as saying there’s going to be a party as they throw them in to pollute the lake and the environment. Don’t wanna miss that. Plus: (Officials didn’t find the same levels…
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Water’s not just for lower forms of life.
Of the myriads of people in this state I’ve been talking with recently, I was most impressed by the excellent Pete Weisser of the Department of Water Resources. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California State Information Officers Council (SiOC) and he was in the California Health Department investigating the Anacin laced with cyanide a few years ago! He said a lack of water in slk could be a health problem, and suggested I contact the County Health Department, as they have “emergency powers.” (not enough to get back to me yet, however.) He also said: “Clean available water is a basic in civilized society.” Thanks for my…
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Great blue herons kicked out of Silver Lake. I went over to Silver Lake right before I got sick, to take some photos of the lake as it was refilling. I had seen this sign up on the fence a couple of days earlier; SOMEONE took it down since I took the photo. It has the name of the photographer on the side: J. M. Harrison, and it was posted, not surprisingly, at the street corners of Hawick and West Silverlake Drive. I understand what Mr. or Ms. Harrison was trying to do: very subtly tell the community that because Silver Lake was drained during the nesting and migrating season…
