Psychic Readings for Pets Might Tap Into Some Surprising Dimensions

Ernie Scheuer passed along an announcement that the Bodhi Tree, a metaphysical bookstore on Melrose Avenue, will hold a free psychic reading for animals April 17.

What caught Scheuer’s eye was the notation, “Pets do not need to be present to receive a reading.” The psychic “can also read for pets who are deceased.”

How about pets that haven’t been born yet?

Generic star: On a music website, Derek Lovett of Torrance found a listing of a performer with a familiar name (see accompanying).

Reminds me of one of my favorite coiners of memorable sayings: Anon.

What’s this all about? Wayne Coombs noticed an Internet advertising website that seemed to be inviting readers to join some sort of conspiracy (see accompanying).

The sunglasses gave him away: An Angeleno visiting the Big Apple wrote to the Metropolitan Diary column of the New York Times of seeing “a man in sunglasses loudly talking on his cellphone” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The man was barking a request to directory assistance for a number in L.A.

The witness wrote: “Finally, a guard caught up with him and advised that cellphone use was not allowed in the museum. ‘It’s OK,’ the man said with typical West Coast self-importance. Indicating a sculpture, he explained, ‘I’m calling the artist.’ ”

Maybe the loudmouth was an Angeleno (and not, for instance, Yankees boss George Steinbrenner).

In any event, I’m proud to see the New York Times publish evidence that an artist could be living in L.A.

Speaking of sculptures: Chris Wash of Manhattan Beach noticed a marble work that deserves to be in the Met -- if only because it was made by an insect (see accompanying).

Not sure where this artist lives.

Mondegreens of the day (podiatrist division): “It wasn’t until I was well into my 30s,” confessed Gary Taylor of Lake Forest, “that I discovered an oft-sung (by me) lyric from ‘The Sunny Side of the Street’ was ‘Gold dust at my feet,’ not ‘Go to stamp my feet.’ ” John Schulte of Moorpark, meanwhile, said that as a child he mis-sang a lyric from a Christmas carol, “While shepherds watched their flocks by night,” as “While shepherds washed their socks by night.”

miscelLAny: A beef - and - bean overdose? The crime log of the Daily Nexus, UC Santa Barbara’s newspaper, reported that an Isla Vista officer found a 22-year-old man passed out on the street with a half-eaten burrito in one hand. The snoozing diner was arrested for public intoxication (presumably after surrendering the half-burrito).

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