PRE-SIMPSON: It may surprise you, but there’s...

PRE-SIMPSON: It may surprise you, but there’s more you may not have known about O.J. Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin: He spent more than two years at Cal State Fullerton in the early 1980s. . . . Kaelin pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon but left school for Hollywood without a degree. He was also popular as a waiter at Bobby McGee’s in Brea. Kato told his biographer in “Kato Kaelin, the Whole Truth,” that his standard line was “We have lobster tails tonight for 50 cents . . . Once upon a time there was this lobster. . . .”

FRANKLY SPEAKING: City Council members in Orange were taken aback by a new staff report on sprucing up Katella Avenue. Economic development director David K. McElroy wrote that in the Katella blocks nearest Disneyland, there might be “an opportunity to create ancillary tourist schlock .” . . . He must mean shops, said a council member. Another called it a “Freudian slip.” . . . But McElroy claims innocence: “I did not realize it was a derogatory term. I was referring to lower-quality tourist businesses that spring up around amusement places.” . . . Well, maybe that too.

NAME GAME: Fountain Valley Mayor Guy Carrozzo is also on a local board of the American Cancer Society. Recently he sent off a barrage of letters seeking wigs for cancer patients who suffer hair loss. He had very little luck locally. But a wig company in Massachusetts sent him three cases --more than 150 wigs. . . . Why? A worker there who saw his letter, Carol Porazzo, was struck by the similarities of their names. . . . He might have gotten even more wigs from Porazzo if he’d told her his daughter’s married name: Porrazzo.

ALMOST THERE: Two years ago, husband and wife Art and Chip Hunter began traveling the country to plant wildflower seeds as a living memorial to AIDS victims. A few million seeds later, the Tustin couple have reached their goal of hitting every state in the continental United States. Chip Hunter, 56, who has lost several friends to AIDS, called it “a chore and a half.” . . . They’re not done yet: Alaska and Hawaii are next.