• Friday's City Council meeting was cancelled so those who wish can attend the funeral of slain LAX police officer Tommy Scott. Why do I expect it will be a mayoral campaign photo op as well.
• Highlights of Estrich v. Kinsley are rehashed briefly in a new Vanity Fair piece by James Wolcott that suggests the new battle of the sexes is just beginning. Also, first superagent Sue Mengers answers the magazine's Proust Questionnaire. Sample: "How would you like to die? I think I already have."
• Garrison Frost's latest entry at The Aesthetic reports he was attacked on the Harbor Freeway — by a kidney stone. Screaming and the panic of loved ones ensued, but "the paramedics and medical folks at California Hospital were super (yes, we would have been tempted to praise anyone with ready access to morphine, but the pain killers were just a part of their good work.)"
• Anniversary time for Defamer.com (one year and 3,131 posts) and CityBeat (one hundred issues). We have one coming up ourselves...
• Writer's Bloc has skedded in an evening with Maria Shriver and Linda Ellerbe on May 10 at the Skirball. On the 16th at the Writer's Guild Theatre, Eric Idle sits in conversation with Bruce Wagner.