So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there, we noted that her friend "Nessie Traina," AKA Vanessa Traina, daughter of local romance novelist Danielle Steele, was also listed. She was last spotted at Fashion Week in New York. Of course, the number is a 310 number, which means she's abandoned us for the splash and dash of Southern California, so we didn't bother to call.

What we wonder is what this means for Ms. Steele's love of collecting parking permits. Maybe Paris and Nessie can use their feminine wiles to convince the Gavster to make sure that Danielle doesn't get hit with fees for having more than one parking permit for her household -- back before the last Muni fare hike, Rescue Muni had suggested that fees get progressively higher for each permit after the first for a home, in order to avoid raising the fares (of course, the fares were raised, and Ms. Steele still has over two dozen parking permits).

Photo by Thierry Chomel.