Heather Kahler
Erika Walker. I totally agree with you. In my opinion NO ONE should feel they have the right to enter my yard and interrupt me with their ( often false, scamming, casing, criminal) agenda. Even a religious person selling their faith. We all have the right to be I disturbed in our homes. This city is so hectic and crazy and so full of confrontation that you should be able to be at home and have it be sacred. Many have gates with dead it’s like a front door. There are many large dogs at shelters who would be glad to put any solicitor in their place, regardless of color. If one is knowing on people’s private property and invading ones private time, they cannot call out any sort of excuse or race or any other factor to get mad at the person they are interrupting. That is cowardly of them and shows they didn’t deserve your time or their cause. Locked gate. Big dog. All times. I highly recommend it.
Heather Kahler
Carolyn Rios. Then occupied driveways belong to people who are not at home. The cars parked on the strewn in front of homes belong to restaurant workers, restaurant patrons, office workers. Riding “through” the oxford triangle is not the same as living in it. I envy those with driveways and garages too. We don’t have either one, and it’s not because anything was ever converted. Commenting on parking issues in a neighborhood you don’t live in and have to double park in front of your home to I lad groceries then park 6-12 houses away, is truly not of your concern.
Other issues are people parking and going to airport and leaving their cars for weeks on end. Drunken patrons going back to their cars cackling and arguing and stumbling to their cars at 2 am waking my son in his front bedroom at night scared from the noise, these are other issues.
Homeowners with driveways are indeed using them. If they are empty they are not at home.
Anonymous
little heads up about the “community healing gardens” group.
They showed up at the VNC BBQ and set up tents between the potluck and meat, knowing full well that they did not have permission to do so. Even if they did have permission to have a booth, it would not have been allowed in that spot. But they knew they were crashing, so instead of asking where to move to became unbelievably aggressive and refused to move. Their aggressive resistance to complying was arduous and while they did eventually move, they ultimately refused to go where they were told to, only positioning themselves near it, as if they had a point to make.
Comment:
Someone commented about their 501 status also. By the way, it is illegal to use the parkway.
Anonymous
It’s been about four years since I moved from the beach after twenty-one years there: five in Venice and sixteen in the Oxford Triangle. It’s sad to see that all the reasons I left are not just still there but getting much worse: homelessness, crime, car break-ins, defecating in yards, violence, traffic, parking, restaurant expansion, congestion, wildly increasing population density with no changes to infrastructure, stressed-out (and mean) people. I am thankful for Rita’s excellent and continuing coverage of life there. I have many friends still duking it out in the area.
The thought occurs to me: how many people who are worn-out by the continuing deterioration of the quality of life there are the same ones who have voted for the same people/party/worldview over and over and over, somehow expecting the results to be different?
Here’s an idea: if you want something you’ve never had before, you have to DO something you’ve never DONE before.
Vote in a different mayor. A different councilman. A different D.A. A different judge. A different assemblyman. A different senator. Think about voting for someone not just because of the party they belong to, or because of a special interest that is precious to you (reduced taxation/free speech/support for the arts/homeless advocacy/gay marriage/abortion/environmentalism/global warming/reducing expansion and building/education/etc.), but for the person’s ability to effect change that is most advantageous to the entire community and for the issues that matter MOST to the quality of life there.
Sure, planting palm trees in the median of Washington Blvd. is nice and encouraging kids to get involved in art and outdoor concerts are all good and fun, but unless the serious societal issues that plague Venice and the Oxford Triangle are dealt with in a serious and immediate manner, it’s all rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
As long as you vote in the same kind of “leaders” you can expect the same kind of results. I experienced it for 21 years and finally had enough, and sadly have witnessed the further decline in the last fours years. It is getting worse, not better.
It’s like the bachelor who goes and opens his refrigerator looking for something to eat. He only sees ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas. He closes the door and goes back to watching TV.
Ten minutes later he’s still hungry and goes back and opens the fridge again: ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas. Nothing else.
Five minutes later he’s still hungry and goes back and opens the fridge, finding the exact same things: ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas.
NOTHING will change until he goes to the store, gets some food and puts it in his refrigerator.
The voting booth is your store.
The candidates are your food.
Venice is your refrigerator.
The choice is yours.
Use it wisely, and selflessly.
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Comments–24 August 2015
Heather Kahler
Erika Walker. I totally agree with you. In my opinion NO ONE should feel they have the right to enter my yard and interrupt me with their ( often false, scamming, casing, criminal) agenda. Even a religious person selling their faith. We all have the right to be I disturbed in our homes. This city is so hectic and crazy and so full of confrontation that you should be able to be at home and have it be sacred. Many have gates with dead it’s like a front door. There are many large dogs at shelters who would be glad to put any solicitor in their place, regardless of color. If one is knowing on people’s private property and invading ones private time, they cannot call out any sort of excuse or race or any other factor to get mad at the person they are interrupting. That is cowardly of them and shows they didn’t deserve your time or their cause. Locked gate. Big dog. All times. I highly recommend it.
Heather Kahler
Carolyn Rios. Then occupied driveways belong to people who are not at home. The cars parked on the strewn in front of homes belong to restaurant workers, restaurant patrons, office workers. Riding “through” the oxford triangle is not the same as living in it. I envy those with driveways and garages too. We don’t have either one, and it’s not because anything was ever converted. Commenting on parking issues in a neighborhood you don’t live in and have to double park in front of your home to I lad groceries then park 6-12 houses away, is truly not of your concern.
Other issues are people parking and going to airport and leaving their cars for weeks on end. Drunken patrons going back to their cars cackling and arguing and stumbling to their cars at 2 am waking my son in his front bedroom at night scared from the noise, these are other issues.
Homeowners with driveways are indeed using them. If they are empty they are not at home.
Anonymous
little heads up about the “community healing gardens” group.
They showed up at the VNC BBQ and set up tents between the potluck and meat, knowing full well that they did not have permission to do so. Even if they did have permission to have a booth, it would not have been allowed in that spot. But they knew they were crashing, so instead of asking where to move to became unbelievably aggressive and refused to move. Their aggressive resistance to complying was arduous and while they did eventually move, they ultimately refused to go where they were told to, only positioning themselves near it, as if they had a point to make.
Comment:
Someone commented about their 501 status also. By the way, it is illegal to use the parkway.
Anonymous
It’s been about four years since I moved from the beach after twenty-one years there: five in Venice and sixteen in the Oxford Triangle. It’s sad to see that all the reasons I left are not just still there but getting much worse: homelessness, crime, car break-ins, defecating in yards, violence, traffic, parking, restaurant expansion, congestion, wildly increasing population density with no changes to infrastructure, stressed-out (and mean) people. I am thankful for Rita’s excellent and continuing coverage of life there. I have many friends still duking it out in the area.
The thought occurs to me: how many people who are worn-out by the continuing deterioration of the quality of life there are the same ones who have voted for the same people/party/worldview over and over and over, somehow expecting the results to be different?
Here’s an idea: if you want something you’ve never had before, you have to DO something you’ve never DONE before.
Vote in a different mayor. A different councilman. A different D.A. A different judge. A different assemblyman. A different senator. Think about voting for someone not just because of the party they belong to, or because of a special interest that is precious to you (reduced taxation/free speech/support for the arts/homeless advocacy/gay marriage/abortion/environmentalism/global warming/reducing expansion and building/education/etc.), but for the person’s ability to effect change that is most advantageous to the entire community and for the issues that matter MOST to the quality of life there.
Sure, planting palm trees in the median of Washington Blvd. is nice and encouraging kids to get involved in art and outdoor concerts are all good and fun, but unless the serious societal issues that plague Venice and the Oxford Triangle are dealt with in a serious and immediate manner, it’s all rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
As long as you vote in the same kind of “leaders” you can expect the same kind of results. I experienced it for 21 years and finally had enough, and sadly have witnessed the further decline in the last fours years. It is getting worse, not better.
It’s like the bachelor who goes and opens his refrigerator looking for something to eat. He only sees ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas. He closes the door and goes back to watching TV.
Ten minutes later he’s still hungry and goes back and opens the fridge again: ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas. Nothing else.
Five minutes later he’s still hungry and goes back and opens the fridge, finding the exact same things: ketchup, mustard, some pickle relish and two Coronas.
NOTHING will change until he goes to the store, gets some food and puts it in his refrigerator.
The voting booth is your store.
The candidates are your food.
Venice is your refrigerator.
The choice is yours.
Use it wisely, and selflessly.
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