Roll out the barrel:Laurie Drew faxed us...

Roll out the barrel:

Laurie Drew faxed us an edition of USC’s Daily Trojan, which contained one of the oddest incidents of this semester--a fraternity member threw a beer keg from a second story balcony, accidentally hitting another student on the ground. The victim was only slightly injured because the keg was empty.

Of course it was empty. You don’t think a frat man would waste a full keg, do you?

CHEW ON THIS: Dodger Stadium may not be the home of baseball’s best team, but Sports Illustrated has awarded the taste championship to its Dodger Dogs. “This is as it should be,” the magazine said in its survey of ballpark food, “for L.A. gave the world the hot-dog-shaped building (see Tail O’ the Pup on San Vicente Boulevard).”

The four-bun rating overshadows a bit of negative publicity that came out of Philadelphia this week. Before the All-Star Game, Dodger star Mike Piazza was asked by 12-year-old reporter Neil Schwartz to reveal which he preferred, “a Philly cheesesteak or a Dodger Dog?”

In a stunning disclosure, Piazza responded: “To tell you the truth, I’ve never really had a Dodger Dog.”

LETTER IMPERFECT: A city history of Griffith Park, commemorating the landmark’s 100th anniversary as a municipal facility, contains a couple of interesting milestones.

In 1920, the city Park Commission denied the request of the University of California’s Southern Campus (now UCLA) to “place a large ‘C’ on the side of Mt. Hollywood. The University of Southern California had made a similar request for placement of the letters ‘USC,’ also denied.”

But, in 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce received permission to refurbish the HOLLYWOODLAND sign, which included removing the LAND, on Mt. Lee.

We now feel more sympathy for the USC students who were apprehended in 1987 as they tried to alter the HOLLYWOOD sign to read USCWOOD. Officers said they seemed to have trouble spelling out the USC part.

Hey, maybe they were only freshmen. Or maybe they had emptied a few kegs.

miscelLAny:

What’s the ideal place to put a “Taste the Food Not the Fuel!” billboard? As the photo by Lucy Smith of West Hollywood illustrates, above another sign advertising a restaurant and gas station, of course.