Giving the shirts off their backs: Twenty-five...
Giving the shirts off their backs: Twenty-five nude dancers will compete for the title of “Miss Help Rebuild L.A.” at a Van Nuys strip club Wednesday night. The club, Oddball Cabaret, said that all proceeds will be donated to riot victims. We suppose this is one case where there’ll be no scandal if the winner of the contest poses in Penthouse magazine.
Danger--Hulks: Claudio Katz found a sign in Venice that warns drivers, especially those in compact models, of the danger of colliding with huge creatures that are native to that area.
Tortilla tiff: Not everyone’s happy about the Pasadena City Council’s recent decision to include tortilla tossing (buttered or otherwise) in its anti-littering ordinance.
The council, as you know doubt know, went after tortillas after complaints from Doo Dah Parade participants, who were pelted by spectators. The Briefcase Drill Team even threatened to boycott this year’s parade (though, isn’t that what you’d expect from the white-collar dullards?)
Anyway, Andrew Kvammen of Pasadena wrote to the Pasadena Weekly after the council action, asserting that he had marched in the parade and never was “injured or caused the least anxiety by flying tortillas.”
But Doo Dah czar Peter Apanel points out that the missiles are often retrieved and thrown again and again until they’re as hard as rocks. Drawing an analogy to cigarette smoke, Apanel said: “Secondhand tortillas can be dangerous.”
Go granny! Go granny! Go granny go--away? Not to put tortillas on the back burner, but a marketing firm has advised Pasadena businesses to welcome “lively, fresh, young, happy, very wholesome people (especially families) who have fun together, rather than just old, serious-minded or stodgy people.”
One thing about stodgy people though--they seldom throw tortillas.
Potatoe Head: Bill Harris of L.A. submitted the latest winner of our weekly Dan Quayle spelling bee--Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dianne Feinstein. At least she’s demonstrated that she is qualified to be vice president.
Sign o’ the times: Karen Snyder noticed that a Redondo Beach drugstore displayed a handwritten sign that said: “Visit the cosmetics department for great gift ideas!” It was a Father’s Day ad.
miscelLAny:
Every Wednesday morning from 10 to 10:30, non-teaching employees at Santa Monica College are granted a break to indulge in any type of reading they prefer. Even the switchboard shuts down, with a recording directing emergency calls to the campus police.