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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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How to report abandoned car in Los Angeles.
After writing about Officer Gina Chovan above, it reminds me of when I saw Chief Bratton speak a couple of months ago. I must say he was impressive and attractive, and his intensity was….sexy. But does he realize what goes on down below? We are the people. The other day I was upset to see a stolen, stripped car on our extremely nice street, a black Acura sitting on its painful brake pads, no wheels. Scattered all around were shiny bolts or whatever holds the tires on. (I was mad at myself, too, because I think I heard a loud noise around 5 AM, but I thought it was just…
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Let’s change the name to Griffith Parking Lot.
This website I found is a riff, right? Maybe they’re trying out for Comics Unleashed. Look. The worst aspect of the Griffith Park fire is that it could have been easily prevented if our city “leaders” had done their jobs. We at The Friends do not blame the apparent homeless man who’s a “person of interest” in the case. Nor do we blame the Los Angeles Police Department or our beloved Griffith Park Rangers for failing to remove him from the park before this all started. Even so-called “bums” have to live somewhere, and he and all the dozens of other homeless living in various encampments in the park should…
