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This Saturday is the 72nd Santa Anita Derby. Gates open at 10 am, and the first race is at noon. The winner of the big race will be eligible to race in the Kentucky Derby, the first jewel of the Triple Crown races, in May. The best known winner of the Derby, Affirmed in 1978, was the last horse to win the Triple Crown.

In case you were wondering what was up with Einstein's love protest over on La Brea near San Vincente, it's Mr. Brainwash's usual spot for his art. In the past, we've seen Star Trek, Madonna/Britney Spears, Marion Cotillard and the Mona Lisa doing some mooning.

Math geeks and school children everywhere are wishing each other a Happy Pi Day today: that's right, it's March 14th, or 3/14, the first three digits of the mathematical constant π, which represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. (Math geeks everywhere are also scoffing at the Saganian/Aronofskian notion that the numbers in pi reveal some esoteric, kabbalistic secret, while those school children are all happy just to be measuring and then eating pies they brought in to class).