Today’s New York Times ran a good piece on yesterday’s walk memorializing Marc “Doc” Abrams. I was quoted in it, and identified as one of the walk’s organizers. This isn’t the case. I was Doc’s next-door neighbor for several years, and an obsessive SIlverlake walker myself. I’m also an organizer of a public walking event with a pretty big distribution list, and my original thought on hearing of Marc’s passing was to hold a walk, and I announced that the Big Parade group would be doing so. When Verdell, of blogging.la, announced a similar idea, it became clear that she would deliver the event a lot faster, and I sent Big Paraders her way. As I stated in a previous posts, I had some objections with the way it came off, but Verdell deserves full credit for getting hundreds of Angelinos together in under 72 hours for an expression of genuine love and sorrow. That’s worthy of more congratulation than words can express.
links:
NYT story.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
