Nudes No Prudes About Magic Shows

The Elysium Institute nudist colony in Topanga, whose motto is “No Clocks, No Computers, No Cell Phones, No Clothes,” is holding a special show Sep. 26--a magic show. Guess the performers won’t be able to hide anything up their sleeves.

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EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS? A Paramount resident reported the theft of his truck, which an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy found parked several blocks away.

“Upon approaching the vehicle, the surprised deputy discovered the suspect asleep at the wheel,” reported the city’s newsletter. The groggy thief explained that the truck battery had gone dead, necessitating the theft of a battery from another vehicle. Then, try as he might, Mr. Badwrench couldn’t install the second battery. So, after all that work, he felt he deserved a snooze.

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ERROR MAIL: Jean Harada says she can think of a couple of reasons for the misspelled address on a recent letter to the Museum of Flight at Hawthorne Airport (see accompanying).

“We are a small museum by aviation standards (definitely smaller than the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C),” said Harada, a museum volunteer, “but hopefully bigger than the Banana Museum in Altadena (I’m not absolutely sure because I’ve never been there).

“Also, we have several airplanes including the YF-17, YF-23 and soon to be restored F-20. What do they have in common? They are all losers (never bought by the military) and we got ‘em.”

Quite a collection. The Banana Museum doesn’t have any lemons.

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BRIEFLY . . .: And, in Manhattan Beach, Carol Trudelle noticed a traditional, eye-catching indication that summer is coming to an end (see photo).

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HEALING YOUR PC: Sarah Lifton of Culver City noticed a marquee that suggested holistic computer therapy (see accompanying).

She remarked: “One can only imagine what those therapies would be: Reviving a crashed hard drive with magnets, Rolfing a faltering power supply back to life, acupressure to fix a loose connection, guided imagery to access the Web. . . .”

I can think of another holistic treatment I’ve used on my computer: Scream therapy.

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One lecture I’ll pass up at Intergalactic Productions’ “Awareness 2000” expo this weekend is “Fingernail and Tongue Diagnosis With Chinese Herbs.”

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