Just the Ammo an Angry Lawyer Needs
Lawyers who suspect that they deserved a larger bonus to complement their paltry $100,000 salaries can now find out if they’re more downtrodden than their counterparts at other firms. They need only click on “L.A. Greedy Associates,” a new cyber bulletin board at https://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/lagreedyassociates.
It enables lawyers using pseudonyms to reveal their salaries “and other quality-of-life issues.”
The Los Angeles Daily Journal noted that while “L.A. Greedy Associates” is “fairly tame right now,” it will probably end up following in “the racier footsteps” of its predecessor, nationally focused “Greedy Associates.” The latter bulletin board has received inquiries about such issues as “sex in the office,” which some lawyers apparently consider a quality-of-life issue.
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“DUH!” FILES: Jim Barton of Van Nuys bought a garden hose coupler that came with this handy tip: “For outdoor use only.”
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THE DUKE OF MALIBU: Artist Brett-Livingstone Strong, you may have read, wants to create a 1,100-foot-tall sculpture topped by an angel in downtown L.A. to celebrate the coming millennium.
If his name sounds familiar it’s because Strong earned a reputation as the “Sculptor to the Stars” in the 1970s and 1980s with such subjects as Lawrence Welk, John Lennon and John Wayne.
His “Wayne Head” (see photo) became his most famous work, partly because of the source material--the infamous Malibu Rock. The huge boulder had previously hovered over Pacific Coast Highway and menaced drivers until it was pulled down, slightly more than 20 years ago.
The “Wayne Head,” a chip off the rock, sat on display in the forecourt of Mann’s Chinese Theatre for a while. It was later purchased by an Arizona businessman for a reported $1 million and donated to a university in Texas.
I say, forget about the angel sculpture. Bring back the head of John Wayne!
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SELF-DUELING SIGN DEPT.: William Pinhey of West Hills noticed a beach sign in Port Hueneme that announced that dogs were banned but that leash and pooper-scooper laws were enforced (see photo). For what? Pet iguanas?
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ON SECOND THOUGHT . . . : In its year-end review of curious occurrences, the newsletter for the city of Paramount recounted the story of a resident who contacted authorities about obtaining permits to remodel his house. He explained that his wife of several years had died and he wanted “to completely change the look of the house,” since everything reminded him of her. He discussed a long list of plans and ideas, then left. A few days later he called back and said that he’d decided just to repaint the house.
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Paula Graber, a public relations executive for Forest Lawn, has a fitting name. Graber is German for gravedigger.
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Steve Harvey can be reached by phone at (213) 237-7083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com and by mail at Metro, L.A. Times, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053.