L.A. Wanna-be: New York TV anchor Chuck...

L.A. Wanna-be: New York TV anchor Chuck Scarborough has written a new novel, “Aftershock,” where The Big One hits not L.A. but New York City, killing 5 million people. Scarborough says it’s an outgrowth of a television report he did on the likelihood of a N.Y. tremor following the devastating 1988 Armenian earthquake. What next? A novel on a devastating taxi/garbage/subway/school strike in L.A.?

His 15 Minutes: Daniel Ellsberg realized the fleeting nature of fame last week when he stopped at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace. Ellsberg, who 20 years ago leaked the Pentagon Papers, went in to buy a book about the Nixon era. “They didn’t take credit cards, so I gave the woman at the desk a check,” Ellsberg said. The woman asked Ellsberg for identification. At that, Ellsberg showed her his name in the book and the woman asked for his autograph. Deciding that an explanation would take too long, he signed the book: “To Peace . . . Daniel Ellsberg.”

Car-pooling Suspended: An estimated 70,000 boisterous cruisers showed up for Modesto’s annual Graffiti Night Saturday, but officials said it was the calmest crowd in years. The only incident of note: Man shoots self in foot. “Really, the only complaints we got were from people whose cars got towed for parking in the wrong place,” said Police Officer Dennis Prouty. Each year people come from all over to cruise McHenry Avenue, made famous by native son George Lucas in “American Graffiti.”