I spend more than a dozen hours over the week leading up to October 31 fixated upon and fine-tuning a freaky frontyard for myself and a few trick-or-treaters and the occasional appreciative accompanying grown-up. I’m shepherd to a gaggle of ghosts, ghouls, fog machines, lights, ghosts, jack o’lanterns, tombstones, ravens, dismembered limbs, bones, skulls, fans, …
What a coincidence… Literally the same freakin’ day I post about the good that can come from showing a little restraint toward the inconsiderati, Susan got home from work to find she couldn’t get into the garage thanks to the asshole who parked his or her Dodge Charger like so: Gone immediately was any benefit …
Whether they’re in a rush or just are straight-up inconsiderate I still am forced to deal with the occasional motorist who frustratingly parks blocking our driveway. But this weekend I fought off one for every day. There was a neighbor’s car poorly parked Thursday and all the way to Friday morning. Then there was a …
Being a native angeleno who cherishes connections to my city’s history (in part because so much of my personal historical landmarks have been destroyed), I take a special geekish pride not just in our 104-year-old house, but also that I live within the original city limits as it was incorporated in 1850. With that love …
You can click to gigantize this roughly knitted panorama of a series of stills that capture the hundreds of people gathered prior to the start of the walk Sunday afternoon. The news has landed. The coroner’s office has ruled today what many people feared and some will refuse to believe, that Silver Lake’s beloved Walking …
Just amazing how a community can come together. When I turned the corner yesterday afternoon and came upon the hundreds of people gathered at the Silver Lake Recreation Center, there for a walk organized to honor and remember Dr Marc Abrams — Silver Lake’s indefatigable “Walking Man” — I choked up at such a wondrous …
I was greeted this pre-dawn with a tweet from my friend Walt, saddened by the death of the man well-known as the Silver Lake Walker, otherwise known to his patients as Dr. Marc Jacobs. In shock and abject sadness over the sudden loss of such a fixture of the neighborhood I then went about posting …