O.C.’s Still Bankrupt on That Kind of Interest-Baring Bonds

After it was noted here that the makers of the yet-to-be released movie “Orange County” had to go to Hollywood to shoot a scene in a bondage club, a member of the leather community wrote:

“The reason they couldn’t film in . . . Orange County is simple--there are no commercial bondage houses in Orange County. There are a number of private ones, but with the attitude of local law enforcement, the few attempts to open one have been forestalled.”

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TARNISHING THE GOLD COAST: As you’ve probably guessed, “Orange County” does not promise to be a celebration of the good life. The plot revolves around a spoiled, Prozac-popping rich girl whose boyfriend disappears after a drug deal gone bad.

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NO HARM IN ASKING: Among the personal ads in a seniors’ publication was one from a real positive thinker (see accompanying).

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DISCOVERING COLUMBUS: After this column noted the sign on L.A.’s Westside that declares I-10 to be the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, I heard from Jerry Feldner of Tempe, Ariz.

“Have you ever seen such a sign other than that one?” he asked. “Here in Arizona, it is called the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. My wife and I drove I-10 from Phoenix to Florida and never found another sign declaring it the Christopher Columbus anything. . . .”

FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK: Feldner may have given up the quest prematurely. Because Clancy Imislund phoned to say, “I saw that same [Columbus Highway] sign, just in from the ocean, in Jacksonville, Fla., when I drove there recently.”

Added Imislund, “But I’ve never seen any other between those two end signs.”

DUELING PHILOSOPHIES: John Horn noted that the magazine This Month in Santa Barbara County is published not monthly, but quarterly. Then again, I think that even Santa Barbarans would generally agree that time seems to move more slowly up their way.

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