Poultry Road-Crossing Conundrum Gaining Ground as Fashionable Cuisine

Why didn’t the chicken make it across the road? I don’t know, but Len Schleikorn of Malibu found the victim in a shop in Australia (see photo). I was reminded of a Texas poultry dish apparently prepared inside a vehicle, snapped by Daniel Love and several other readers (see photo).

By way of explanation, Schleikorn added: “In checking with the butcher shop, it appears that the chicken referred to is prepared in such a way as to give it that run-over look.”

Or Down-Under look.

Why not just call it Presidents Year? I see where one car dealer’s “President Days” sale is running through March 4. Honest Abe.

As long as he’s gone this far, the dealer should have kept it going until March 18 to pay proper respect to President Grover Cleveland’s birthday.

Unfavorable signs: You know how sensitive artists can be.

It seems that a while back, the city asked loft-dwellers and other residents of the downtown area east of the Civic Center what they’d like their neighborhood to be called on local signs. They decided on the “Arts District.”

But someone misunderstood at City Hall (surprise) and a singular printing error, of sorts, was committed (see photo).

“It’s like we’re a giraffe in the zoo, like there’s only one artist living here,” artist Qathryn Brehm told the Los Angeles Downtown News.

The problem is working itself out, though.

Just two of the six original signs remain standing, and there are suspicions that some were removed by an artist (or artists). Traction Avenue store owner Joel Bloom knows of one that was terminated by Hollywood.

“It went down for [the filming of] a Schwarzenegger movie,” Bloom said.

Arnold, I want to hear you say: “I’ll be back ... with that sign.”

Touch of humanity: “I just got a telephone call that started with a woman’s voice saying, ‘I am calling you personally,’” said Richard Sherer. He added: “It was a taped message.”

Seeing orange: After a reader spotted a Rolls Royce with the license plate NO MSTRD, Ina Nevin of Manhattan Beach recalled seeing a Rolls driver with a different attitude. His coupe was parked in a lot with a jar of Grey Poupon on the dashboard. Which reminds me: I’ve got to clean that McDonald’s ketchup stain off the floor of my old Honda.

miscelLAny: An item here about a Calabasas dog show for mutts brought a note from Mike Kirwan of Venice, who recalled a story about a mutt owner who was taking his hound to a pedigreed dog show. A friend told him the mutt had no chance to win. “Yes,” responded his owner, “but think of the contacts he’ll make.”

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