Why L.A. Is Loopy - One In A Series

Occasional observations on why Los Angeles is sometimes the lunatic capital of the world.

We have a local radio station, STAR 98.7, that, for the past few months, has been having the traffic guy SING the traffic report. At first the poor thing had to do it EVERY time. Now it's only by request. The thing is, the requests come often. I feel bad for the guy -- he can't sing, yet he gamely tries. The songs are well known songs but sound like they're being played on one of those old-school Casio keyboards. It always reminds me of some poor kid who just wants to play quietly in his room but gets paraded out every time the relatives come over to perform his rendition of "Greensleeves" on his recorder.

The morning DJs also played a little game of "Cute or Creepy" where callers would offer some tidbit about their lives and the DJs would determine if that tidbit was cute or creepy. The only one I heard was about a boyfriend who liked to videotape cute TV weathergirls and watch them over and over as well as taking detailed notes about them.

Um. That's not creepy. That's sociopathic. That's the kind of person who, if you visited their childhood home, you'd find polished dog and cat skulls buried in the backyard.