Milton Kagen was tired of dogs relieving...

Milton Kagen was tired of dogs relieving themselves in his front yard in the Hollywood Hills while the mutts’ masters watched placidly. So he posted a sign warning that his plants are sprayed with “dioxinleucomaine.” And since then, he adds, dog owners seem “to be getting the message.”

Hold on a minute. Dioxinleucomaine? What’s that? (Our computer spell-checker nearly burst into flames.) “I made up the word,” Kagen proudly admitted.

On 1st Street, not far from the Kosher Burrito stand, a handwritten menu in the window of a Japanese restaurant bears the Star of David.

Yes, it could be another L.A. first:

Kosher sushi.

In our eternal search for truth we came upon an edition of Whole Life Times, a sort of New Age magazine. An editorial directed toward men begins: “Dear Male Energy Beings . . . “ It carries accounts about such feats as accomplishing “astral travel while your physical body sleeps” (no more worrying about airline rates!). There’s also a long profile of a local realtor. That’s L.A.: astral travel and property values.

Didn’t do motorists any good to look back over their shoulders at this freeway obstacle:

CHP officers closed the right two lanes of the San Diego Freeway north of Sunset Boulevard Wednesday afternoon after a 15-foot-tall glass mirror fell to the pavement.

The surfer as artiste:

You may have noticed the article in Wednesday’s Calendar section about the surfboard art festival that invades Santa Monica later this month. Artists, many of whom ride the waves themselves, are decorating the boards to be sold at a fund-raiser.

But it should be noted that surfers are also sailing into other cultural waters. Just the other day, Waveslider Productions released “In a Blue Room,” billed as the first recording made only by surfers.

Let’s hope it doesn’t give new meaning to the term wipe-out.

For those who would love to experience some of the thrills of surfing without leaving their cars, there’s always the old carwash-drive-through maneuver.

L.A. Festival-goers who fork over $15 to the Bonus Carwash in Santa Monica on Sept. 15 will receive a cassette of pianist Sandra Tsing Loh’s “Music for the Bonus Carwash,” which they can play while their car is being bathed.

Loh, who once serenaded rush-hour traffic on a piano in a parking lot off the Harbor Freeway, terms her carwash recording “exhilarating, abysmal and baptismal.”

Hot wax is not included.

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With about 175,000 players a year, the Rancho Park Municipal Golf Course in West L.A. is the busiest in the nation.