Hi. What’s your sign? Will you marry...
Hi. What’s your sign? Will you marry me?Introductions, the personals section of the Long Beach Pennysaver, states in its guidelines: “This is a community, family publication. . . . (The personals section) is restricted to individuals seeking personal, monogamous relationships. . . .”
Is this more proof that it’s a Brave Newt World?
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Was everyone tuned in to O.J.?Well, a colleague who attended a funeral on Tuesday morning swears that she noticed a portable TV set in the front seat of the hearse.
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It’s not just dog-eat-dog out there: The L.A. City Council recently instituted a fee of $15 for claiming rabbits or poultry from city animal shelters. Previously there was no charge. But, an Animal Regulation Department official said, it was discovered that some people were claiming the animals for the purpose of cooking them.
Misstep: Jackson Fleet and Troxey Kemper, among others, wrote to say that in our list of walks of fame, we should have credited Gene Autry with five stars on Hollywood Boulevard, not a measly four.
John Gallagher, meanwhile, chastised us for forgetting to include the Adult Walk of Fame on Santa Monica Boulevard in the famed Dirty Movie District.
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The anti-Angeles: While Mayor Riordan’s office is putting up billboards that say, “You Can Shake L.A. But You Can’t Break It,” a company called Greener Pastures is trying to persuade residents to make a break with L.A.
Greener Pastures publishes a newsletter, gives seminars and sells postcards (see accompanying), all extolling the virtues of rural areas around the nation.
The company, by the way, is based in Pahrump, Nev., which we’ve always thought of as paradise.
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Let’s see now, which disaster was that one?An L.A. County economist writes in the L.A. Business Journal that conventions here have declined in number in 1995 because they “are booked three years in advance, and 1992 was not a good year in which to sell travel to Los Angeles.”
Pahrump’s convention business is probably way up, though.
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Everyone has a Kodak moment: Last week we mentioned a letter from Jack Repp of Palm Springs, who said in an aside, “My name and photo appeared in the old Chicago Herald-American 59 years ago, having to do with the ‘Junior Birdmen of America.’ But that fame proved to be fleeting. . . .”
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In a bit of one-downsmanship, George French of Torrance responds: “Get this. In 1913, I had my picture in the Oakland Tribune as winner of the Oakland Baby Contest. Now when I brag, people ask, ‘What happened?’ ”
miscelLAny “Inside Solid Waste” is the name of the newsletter of the L.A. County Solid Waste Management Committee/ Integrated Waste Management Task Force. We don’t want to see the centerfold.