Brooks (R-World Almanac):Rancho Palos Verdes Councilwoman Susan...

Brooks (R-World Almanac):

Rancho Palos Verdes Councilwoman Susan Brooks has dropped her challenge to Rep. Jane Harman’s victory in their November Congressional battle. But if it’s any consolation, Brooks is listed as the winner by the 1995 World Almanac and Book of Facts.

The publication boldfaced Brooks’ name in the results along with the (actual) winners and listed her vote total as 82,415, compared to 82,322 for Democrat Harman. Those were the totals on Election Night and the almanac went to the printer soon afterward. A subsequent count of absentee ballots, however, gave Harman an 812-vote win.

Makes you wonder what else the World Almanac got wrong. Makes you wonder, for instance, if 21% of the land in Albania really is arable.

CULTURE NOTES: The former UFO/Bigfoot Museum of Malibu, which shut down in 1993 after a couple of earthly disasters (a fire and a flood), has resurfaced in arable Venice.

Filling the void left by the recent closure of Hollywood’s Weird Museum, the UFO/Bigfoot offers, among other things--and we do mean things--”exhibits relating to UFOs, aliens, English and worldwide crop circle formations, a Bigfoot female holding several Bigfoot children and evidence from NASA photos of ancient alien construction domes on the moon.”

Try finding this stuff in the World Almanac.

Curator Erik Beckjord says the museum, at 1056 Van Buren Ave., is open free of charge from 2 to 6 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 6 p.m. on weekends. Anticipating, perhaps, that the strange gallery will attract a few oddballs, Beckjord’s recorded message requests: “Please don’t disturb the neighbors.”

THE BIGFOOT MUSEUM IS BACK . . .: But it’s theme companion, the Foot Museum of Long Beach, is still shut down, we’re sad to report.

ANOTHER REASON DOWNTOWN IS SO EXCITING: We came upon a lawyerly warning while ambling past a parking lot on Bunker Hill. We wouldn’t want to have Mrs. Bigfoot and the Bigfoot tots fall down on a visit to L.A.

ANTI-GOSSIP PILL?Pat McHugh of Burbank saw an ad for a prescription drug that claims it “prevents hear burn.”

ANAGRAM OF THE DAY: “Did you realize that RIORDAN becomes NO RAID’R?” writes Nissen Davis of Rancho Palos Verdes. Now you tell us, Davis, two years after the mayoral election.

miscelLAny A neighbor of ours who was a Raiders season-ticket holder received an application inviting him to “join the phenomenon that is Oakland Raider football!” Nothing like a 400-mile drive to home games. The Raiders’ new motto, by the way, is: “Return to Glory.” They’re still too close as far we’re concerned. We’d prefer: “Return to Albania.”