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    Howl-o-ween Dog Contest in Silver Lake

    My favorite event of the Halloween season is happening again this year: the Silver Lake Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Pageant! Silver Lake Neighborhood council tells me they hung up 20 laminated flyers for this Halloween party all around Silver Lake this week, and someone took them all down! What kind of jackass would do such a thing??? TO THE POOR DOGS?!  So here’s more on the dog parade. Event Details for Dogs in Halloween costumes Sunday, Oct 27, 2013 3Pm to 5 PM Inside the Small Dog Park Free, with lots of great prizes! 5th year of this fun event for dogs and dog lovers. The prizes I saw were pretty…

  • Compliment Corner

    I got called a community journalist! Joy!

    David Markland, who was not a happy camper in my comments here, turns out to be a writer for Blogging LA. (That’s the trouble with blogs; they keep you on your toes!) He recently wrote on Blogging LA that: After Donna Barstow received a whooping for saying that the LAFD sucks, she didn’t apologize. Instead, she dug in her heels, picked up the phone, and became a community journalist. Hmm, a whooping….is that what they’re calling it now? But anyway, I think he’s saying something nice about me! He also mentions two other bloggers who are writing about After the Fire: Thunderbolt Fan, writing on LA Voice, and Lonewacko. Great…