Talk about a dehydrating job: Ann Farmer...

Talk about a dehydrating job: Ann Farmer of Whittier was in a local post office when she overheard this request for the new self-adhesive stamps:

“I’d like a book of those pre-licked stamps, please.”

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A real plague of Big Mac attacks: Peter Manso’s “Brando: The Biography”--excerpted in Vanity Fair--deals in part with the failed diet attempts by the overweight actor in Beverly Hills.

A former Brando associate recounted how one of the actor’s girlfriends tried to keep him on salads. But Brando, he said, had “been paying employees from McDonald’s in the Valley to come up on the sly and toss him stuff over the fence. You’d find the mess in the morning. Several Big Macs, french fries, the whole thing.”

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You are traveling through another dimension. . . : And you’re seeing two photos that would do Rod Serling proud.

One, snapped by John Kuderna on Wilshire Boulevard, shows a WALK/DON’T WALK sign that has been altered to read, DEFY FEAR. (To boost the spirits of pedestrians?)

The other was taken by Rade Prtina of Pacific Palisades on the evening O.J. Simpson was arrested. As if that event wasn’t strange enough in itself, Prtina’s TV screen somehow carried the logos of Channels 5 and 7 simultaneously, even though they weren’t pooling their broadcast. A real dilemma for the Nielsen ratings folks.

MiscelLAny:

Author Linda Georgian claims that her “Guardian Angels” class for the West L.A.-based Learning Annex will reveal “how to recognize angelic encounters (and) communicate with one’s guardian angels.” Well, this is the City of Angels.