Which Prompts the Question: Are There Any Glens in Glendale?

The Lawndale City Council wants to keep the “lawn” in Lawndale.

The members voted a temporary ban on the practice of paving over lawns to create parking spaces.

“We’ve got a lot of kids, dogs and cats,” Councilman Jim Ramsey told the Daily Breeze in Torrance. “It would be nice to have a little greenery there for those cats, dogs, kids and even the adults to look at once in a while.”

This isn’t the first time pavement has been an issue in Lawndale. I couldn’t help recalling that several years ago, the city ripped out the artificial turf along Hawthorne Boulevard’s concrete median to stop jokes about Lawndale being renamed Astrodale.

Speaking of grass: Mardine Davis of L.A. couldn’t spot any in the area she snapped, despite one sign to the contrary (see photo). No, it wasn’t in Lawndale.

Back to dogs and cats: William Mortimer of Dana Point found a cruise line that apparently welcomes all sorts of creatures (see accompanying).

Sure, justice is blind, but ... : Dick Taylor of South Pasadena couldn’t figure out why his grand jury application instructed him to use an ink that no one could read (see accompanying).

What won’t they think of next? Duncan Reed of Simi Valley alerted us to the perfect invention for a couch potato: A drink container “that will come to you” (see accompanying).

The Curse of the County Fair: That’s what “those of us who live out on the eastern fringes” call Pomona’s annual September spectacle, says Ellen Zunino of Monrovia.

It has “always coincided with four weeks of the hottest, nastiest, smoggiest weather of the year,” she writes. “We even anticipate ‘The Curse’ with nuanced statements like, ‘Oh no, the fair starts next week!’ Which is understood by anyone who’s lived here long enough to mean, ‘Oh no, it’s going to get 15 degrees hotter and be miserable ‘til the fair closes!’ ”

But not this year. A mild (even rainy!) September makes it appear the curse has been lifted.

Said Zunino: “Ex-Southern California friends of mine have even commented on our mellow temperatures and then asked, ‘Did they cancel the fair this year?’ ”

miscelLAny: After Judi Birnberg of Sherman Oaks shared a photo of an optician’s shop that also sells lobsters, an anonymous reader wrote: “Maybe he was selling seefood.” Guess I wouldn’t want my name attached to that pun either.