Gawk of the town:Stuck in slow-moving traffic...

Gawk of the town:

Stuck in slow-moving traffic on Pacific Coast Highway, Pepperdine spokesman Jeff Bliss eventually happened upon one of the strangest street obstructions that he’s ever seen.

“It was a guy playing his flute while he was driving,” Bliss said. “He was playing with both hands and going maybe 20. I guess he was steering with his knees. Everyone was slowing down to watch.”

Obviously Bliss and the others hadn’t heard the traffic advisory warning of a rehearsing musician behind the wheel: A gig-alert.

East is east, and west is north, or is it south?

Speaking of traffic-stopping sights, it’s a wonder that any newcomer to Azusa could make sense of the directional signs at the Vernon Avenue exit of the Foothill Freeway. A real multi-choice test.

Still on the subject of drivers, Zsa Zsa Gabor may have inspired a new civic feud involving L.A. and San Antonio.

Hollywood Fantasy Corp. is suing the famed cop-slapper for $1.1 million, claiming she breeched a contract to act in skits with tourists in the Texas city as part of the company’s “fantasy vacations.”

The suit contends that Gabor rebelled because the company wouldn’t pay for her personal hairstylist, makeup artist and maid. And it alleges that Gabor declared people in San Antonio “don’t know how to use makeup” and that Texans “just don’t know how to be a maid.”

Poor San Antone. First, the Alamo. Now, the Zsa Zsa.

Legal Notice: Only in L.A. is not responsible for debts incurred by a new column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Only in Vegas.”

You might have thought the use of the word “do” (as in “do lunch”) by the terminally hip originated at a Hollywood party 10 or 15 years ago when some agent assured a screenwriter that they’d get together real soon.

Etymologists, however, should take note that Ginny Pace, editor of the Mileposts column in Westways magazine, has traced the phrase back at least to 1941 when that publication’s travel editor suggested that readers “do” Mexico and Guatemala.

We do look forward to the day when this variation of “do” dies, don’t we?

Please Don’t Feed the Rangers:

Cliff Dektar of North Hollywood points out that a ranger in the Tujunga district of Angeles National Forest is named Steve Bear.

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The lavish 63-year-old Moorish-style Adamson House in Malibu, now open for tours, has a colorfully tiled outdoor area that contains a bathtub for dogs.