Unclear on the concept:”Are you easily distracted,...
Unclear on the concept:
“Are you easily distracted, prone to mood swings and have problems with procrastination and disorganization?” asks the Learning Annex in its catalogue of extension classes. “You may have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).”
The Learning Annex is offering a $32 class on ADD. Oddly enough, it’s three hours long.
WE’RE NOT NO. 1! WE’RE NOT NO. 1!On a recent vacation, Al Hotard of Covina found a reaffirmation of sorts of the relative beauty of L.A.--in the San Francisco Chronicle, no less. That newspaper ran an article on the San Francisco Recreational Vehicle Park, an unsightly compound encircled by barbed-wire, which one miserable visitor characterized this way:
“We have been to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. . . . We have been traveling for three weeks. And this is the ugliest place we have stayed.”
It’s enough to make any Angeleno proud.
KEANU REEVES TRIED TO WARN US: The 1994 movie “Speed” culminates with a runaway Metro Red Line car bursting from a tunnel, where it’s involved in a fiery wreck that lays waste to a well-known thoroughfare. Eeerie, isn’t it? SWAT team hero Jack Traven (Reeves) could have told the MTA that the subway project was headed for disaster on Hollywood Boulevard.
LIST OF THE DAY: The most popular cars among thieves in L.A. County have a few years under the hood, according to Avenues, the Auto Club magazine. Older models are stolen more often because they are easier to hot-wire, have fewer anti-theft devices, are found in neighborhoods where crime is more prevalent and are in demand for their parts.
The thieves’ Top 10:
1. 1984 Olds Cutlass
2. 1979 Olds Cutlass
3. 1980 Toyota Corolla
4. 1981 Olds Cutlass
5. 1981 Toyota Corolla
6. 1980 Toyota Celica
7. 1991 Honda Accord
8. 1983 Olds Cutlass
9. 1990 Honda Accord
10. 1979 Toyota Celica
The magazine, incidentally, cites a Shell Oil survey that found that 14% of motorists admitted to sometimes leaving their car parked with the key in the ignition.
WE DIDN’T THINK ANYONE OVER 14 WOULD ATTEND: At a theater box-office in Century City, a gruff voice was overheard telling the ticket clerk, “ ‘Morphin Power Rangers’ . . . two seniors.”
miscelLAny Ken Rosenhek submits photographic evidence of dueling Statuettes of Liberty in Beverly Hills, one on Coldwater Canyon Drive and one on Beverly Drive. A third Lady Liberty sits outside El Monte City Hall--the gift of a local physician. We haven’t been able to confirm a report that there’s a bigger Statue of Liberty back east.
