Opinion: L.A. threatened by the return of feathered hair?

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Get out there and start searching for the laptop-sized blinking billboards that frightened the bejeezus out of Beantown yesterday. Apparently, the guerrilla-marketing ads for a new Adult Swim cartoon that officials in Boston mistook for weapons have also been planted around Hollywood, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

Meanwhile, Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, the pranksters who inadvertently set off the Boston shutdown, have managed to turn their out-on-bail press conference into a sideshow discussion of seventies hairstyles:

Capsule review: I think they’re straining toward wackiness a bit too strenuously, but they get props for making a mockery of the whole process of a press conference. And of course, it’s the straightmen who really sell a performance like this, and the reporters, in ever-higher dudgeon, come through beautifully. Will Berdovsky and Stevens do any time for this? I’m not sure what the charge would be. There is the famous Groucho law against tomfoolery at airport security lines, but as far as I know there’s no law against bombing with a practical joke...yet.