The Adventures of Aaron Proctor

The Proc says it’s Thursday - so that means it’s time for you to pick up a Pasadena Weekly and check out my newest edition of “5 Questions“. This time, it’s with Good Ol’ Paul Little!

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After some homeless dude sat down next to me at the bus stop yesterday morning, demanded a cigarette, and when I told him I didn’t have any left - he said “THANKS A LOT, ASSHOLE” and walked away - I was pretty pissed. Not only pissed because the bus stop at Colorado and Sierra Madre smells of piss ever since they kept a bench there (which is now gone) for a week… (I also should note I would have beated his ass on principle but I didn’t want to smell like urine coming into my JOB)

I was also pretty pissed because I recently learned a new and disturbing fact about the homeless here in Pasadena and why they all flock here. It’s not just because the idiots down in Los Angeles give them tokens and tell them “Go to Pasadena!”

There was a survey recently done in Old Town. It found that a huge number of shoppers/people found it wrong that the Yellow Jacket Guides in Pasadena sometimes prevent them from giving homeless people money. Yeah, you read that right - people in Pasadena are pissed they can’t give to the homeless. I mean, in one sense, it’s their right to give money to whoever they want to - but in another sense - it’s causing a problem.

When I lived in Marcus Hook, PA - I lived by a park right on the Delaware River which I liked to go to and watch the ships unload at Sun Oil and then-BP. The park was full of seagull shit. Why? Because people kept feeding the seagulls. Finally the Marcus Hook city government (of which assclown Curt Weldon used to be Mayor) decided it was time to put up signs saying “Please Don’t Feed The Seagulls”. You feed a seagull, it keeps coming back, and shits on your sidewalk. People didn’t listen. Now the park is not only full of seagull shit - but lame-ass suburbanite gang graffiti as well.

Same applies to the homeless in Pasadena. Offer to buy one of them lunch next time instead of giving them money. See how many turn you down. Nahh, you give them money, or a cigarette..so they piss and shit at your bus stop..and EXPECT you to give them more money and a cigarette. These people who keep doing it AREN’T HELPING.

So - we just continue the trend that LA does. We give them a token and tell them to hit up Monrovia - where Crazy Billy Idol bitch has all of Restaurant Row squared away. That’s fine with me - `cause at least they’re not in Pasadena - but why not send them back to where they most likely came from?

Hey Council - why not make begging for money considered solicitation? Make it so someone asking you for change or a cigarette is right up there with a hooker in Untown telling you “$50 dollar for blow job”. I mean, it could be complaint based like their stupid smoking ban. We’ve got this new guy in Old Town telling people some sob story about he “just got off the Greyhound from prison” (when in fact, the Greyhound station here in Pasadena has been closed for a little while) - and that he needs a few dollars. Yeah, like I’m going to give money to a criminal. Why not have a hotline I can call where the po-po can come pick him up and drop his ass off in Los Angeles with the rest of the garbage? Put them right by that annoying “Question Mark” cafe on Colorado in Evil Rock - whose name I can never figure out - and let the hipsters on their Wi-Fi give him change. Or throw him in the slammer - at least he’ll have food and water and a bed for a night or two.

Don’t let the homeless dick you around and fuck up Pasadena. I’m surprised more of the limo Liberals aren’t all over this - but they’re mostly the ones GIVING them money and smokes. It’s only `cause there’s not homeless people pushing around shopping carts in Linda Vista. “You can be poor but you can’t be poor near me.” Nice job, douchebags.

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Everyone’s favorite crazy person, Virginia Hoge, is at it again. Spewing more gallons of crazy than an oil well at a Texas mental institution:

The Joker with his new pal

Well, look who is here, partying with Aaron Proctor - at 2 separate parties. The top pic is from Aaron’s Blogger Party - whose pics have mysteriously vanished from his blog (what? censorship in the land of Libertarian “Free Speech”), lucky I kept this one for my scrapbook. And here she is again, giving the camera a “Rose Queen wave” on the far right, a guest at his recent birthday party!Who is “she”? None other than the Public Information Officer for the city of Pasadena, Ann Erdman (yes, she has a blog too).She does not condemn him - her weak “give him a bar of soap” comment, is not near enough - as she should, in support of her City if nothing else! I say her being there is nothing less than a very real show of support from her.Ann Erdman’s job description is listed on the City of Pasadena website as:The Public Affairs Division is the information link between city government, the community and the media. It produces the community newsletter Pasadena In Focus, prepares and distributes news releases, answers media inquiries, oversees all programming on 55 KPAS, develops and sells City Hall souvenirs, produces brochures, leaflets, flyers, posters, ads and other literature; plans press conferences; promotes special events; provides media relations and public relations counsel to city departments; and oversees the information kiosk at Pasadena City Hall. We are in serious trouble at City Hall if their main media person, their “information link between the city…and the community”, has so little scruples as to consort with the likes of this modern-day “Bircher” who is violently* attacking her own colleagues at City Hall! Oh yes, and he also sends our Mayor crudely-drawn comics to “rattle” him.*“Violence of the tongue is very real, sharper than any knife.” - Mother TheresaNot to mention Proctor’s profane, racist and savage attacks on our Public School district and his support of right-wing causes and candidates.Not to mention Proctor’s profane, racist and savage attacks on our Public School district and his support of right-wing causes and candidates.Forget W being Batman, Aaron Proctor is our Joker. (”The Joker”, said the late Heath Ledger “is a person without empathy”).Not to mention Proctor’s profane, racist and savage attacks on our Public School district and his support of right-wing causes and candidates.Forget W being Batman, Aaron Proctor is our Joker. (”The Joker”, said the late Heath Ledger “is a person without empathy”).But how long does he get to run around “Gotham”, a whole lot more? Our media (and the City of Pasadena’s lead media official) seem to be enjoying him. Not to mention Proctor’s profane, racist and savage attacks on our Public School district and his support of right-wing causes and candidates.Forget W being Batman, Aaron Proctor is our Joker. (”The Joker”, said the late Heath Ledger “is a person without empathy”).But how long does he get to run around “Gotham”, a whole lot more? Our media (and the City of Pasadena’s lead media official) seem to be enjoying him.Why? Not to mention Proctor’s profane, racist and savage attacks on our Public School district and his support of right-wing causes and candidates.Forget W being Batman, Aaron Proctor is our Joker. (”The Joker”, said the late Heath Ledger “is a person without empathy”).But how long does he get to run around “Gotham”, a whole lot more? Our media (and the City of Pasadena’s lead media official) seem to be enjoying him.Why?

Here are a couple of things I said in comments on her blog - which I’m sure she won’t print:

1. Those pics are still on my blog. Just go into the archives. Here and here. Idiot!!

2. Those pics are my property and I did not authorize you to use them. Therefore, you should take them down - since they’re copyrighted material. (Note: This rule applies to Hoge and Hoge only. Everyone else is cool with using stuff. I am just worried she’s masturbating to my image. While I don’t blame her, it creeps me the fuck out..)
3. I’m pleased to be put on the same level as Heath’s stunning performance in the film.

4. You’re a crazy fucking bitch…and you’re a professional crazy fucking bitch because you get paid by PUSD to be a crazy fucking bitch.

5. Ann Erdman thinks I rock the party that rocks the body. Jealous much?

6. You wanna talk about verbal violence? When you say things like “how long does he get to run around”, etc - sounds like you want to have me jailed for freedom of speech or even killed. Get in line for both.

7. Sorry you didn’t get invited to the blogger party or my birthday party. Your invitation must have got lost in the mail…..but I swear I thought Crazytown, USA 12345 was a legit zip code.

8. Fuck you. But not in the literal sense - `cause seriously - I wouldn’t go near that if PUSD paid me $11,000.

9. “Our media (and the City of Pasadena’s lead media official) seem to be enjoying him. Why?” Because I’m the Most Electrifying Man in Pasadena and fucking hilarious?
10. Thanks.

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I think we all know who the 5.4-on-the-Richter-scale Ham & Egger in the room is this week.

For the first time ever, this week’s Ham & Egger Award goes to an inanimate object (well, if you count Peter Dreier as an animate object..):

The Chino Hills Earthquake.

Thanks for a “not so big quake” to scare the hell out of me….should rename it “The Ham & Egger Earthquake.”

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Ok - so everyone (including me) is talking about how great the new Batman movie is - but wait just a minute here….Step Brothers is pretty good, too.

It’s a funny movie that I was laughing through the entire way. Lots of “rated R” type humor - much like you’ll find on this website. It’s not “artsy” funny, either, so leave that Darjeeling Limited shit at home. Plus - like 99% of it is filmed in Pasadena and South Pasadena. If you go see it, watch for the Paseo and the Mission Gold Line Station. Now all those filming signs I saw like..6 or 8 months ago…for “Brothers” make sense.

I also have a soft spot for John C. Reilly (who also lives in Pasadena - why can’t we have John C. Reilly Day?! Margaret McAustin - get on that one…) since a couple of people used to say I looked like him (when I let my hair grow long..)

Plus there are quite a lot of quotable lines and memorable scenes throughout the film. I’ll even wager this was funnier than Walk Hard or Semi-Pro.

I say give it a chance - but wait until after you see Batman..it’s the perfect “pick me up”. Seriously, I was laughing for 90 minutes straight.

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So an e-mail went around from some Old Money White People “historical preservationists” about how Michael Beck wouldn’t be a good fit as the next City Manager of Pasadena.

If you read my post yesterday, you’ll see why he’s really bad for Pasadena. It has nothing to do with his records on pissing off Old Money White People “historical preservation” - it has to do with the fact that he’s coming from Bumfuck County to Pasadena and will roll over anything and everything the City tells him to do. Just what we need - another lackey. Trust me - take a City Manager from like Texarkana and tell him he’s gonna be the new City Manager of New York City and get a nicer house and get paid way more. He’d do anything you’d say. The Old Money White People “historical preservationists” should calm the fuck down - he’ll be at your beckon call.
Besides - the way Bogey is talking in the paper, it sounds like Beck is already the new guy. I wonder if Beck has been debriefed on Pasadena just yet? I mean, I’m sure he knows all the ins and outs of government..but what about other quirks of the Crown City?

TOP TEN THINGS THAT WILL BE SAID TO MICHAEL BECK ONCE HE BECOMES CITY MANAGER

10. “It is true that Sid Tyler does extreme mixed-martial arts cagefighting on the weekends..”
9. “If you see a heavy-set guy in glasses with an un-tucked shirt and notepad lurching around City Hall, that’s Carl Kozlowski. Yeah, don’t watch his stand-up routine.”
8. “Be careful what you say in print around here. Unlike Riverside, people here can actually read.”
7. “Here’s your copy of Mein Kampf for your trips to South Pasadena…”
6. “She’s not a high school intern, she’s a Councilwoman.”
5. “See that Proctor guy? You don’t see him.”
4. “It’s ok. It’s a diagonal crosswalk.”
3. “Nearest Sonic? 22 miles away.”
2. “Shiiiiiiiiiiit.”
1. “What do you mean ‘when’s the next NASCAR event’? HAHAHAHA! Where the hell do you think you are? Riverside?……………………………Ooops.”

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Like dangling a piece of cheese in front of a mouse with its mouth wired shut,
- AP

Everyone is talking about the big event that rocked Pasadena and the entire LA area yesterday. I hope everyone is ok after what happened.

Of course, I’m talking about the unveiling of A SHIRTLESS PICTURE OF STEVE HADERLEIN!

That’s Sexy Steve takin’ a dive for the ladies. Call Chief Melekian - there’s a crime wave of hotness afoot!

Oh and there was an earthquake….

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It’s time for #3 on my list of The Ten Things I Love About Pasadena (inspired by this blog post and a companion series to The Ten People Ruining Pasadena):

#3: We’re The Center Of The Universe!

Seriously. It’s got to be a least a million times that The Proc is watching TV or reading something and shouts out “Hey! They’re from Pasadena!” I guess there’s a reason even Einstein wanted to spend a lot of his time here.

So many famous (and sometimes infamous) things and people are connected to the Crown City, it’s amazing. My favorite baseball player for my favorite team, Chase Utley, for example - was born in Pasadena.

The Gamble House is here..and that’s even Doc’s house in “Back To The Future”.

Wikipedia sez - check out all the famous people from Pasadena:

And according to the City of Pasadena website - check out the myriad of films and TV shows filmed here. So the next time someone tells you Pasadena is just the “place where the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl happen” - tell them all of these exciting facts…tell them why Pasadena is the Center Of The Universe!

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The Pasadena Museum Of History - The Next Home For My Famous Leather Jacket

Miss Havisham (sexy at 69 comments on the FC blog) sent in her interesting take on “The Pasadena Way” as I continue to try to figure out just what the fuck it actually means to everyone:

“That is just not the Pasadena way.”Back in the stonedage when I was but a tot,
and the train used to rumble across Colorado Blvd.
dust would fly up onto your cup,
if you were chance to have a tea by the tracks.*cough*“We’ll have to dump the whole pot out.”“No, oh no. That is just not the Pasadena way.”From what I understand the Pasadena Way to be
as taught to me by my elders,
In the nineteen-seventies
the lore of the loony alleys *was*
We Pasadenans don’t mind a little dust in our tea.- Miss Havisham

Way different than the way it is now, Miss H. Now - people complain when their neighbors have an ugly garage. Now Neighborhood Associations make living in a City not so much fun. Now - any time anyone is trying to have fun or do something not so status quo, it gets heavily taxed or banned or thrown out of the City. (Strip clubs, smoking, any sort of night club that wants to stay open till 2 a.m. in Old Town, etc…) Those 70’s sure sound fun.

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I’ve been getting some lame ass comments on my YouTube page that I’m not approving regarding the John and Ken Show - (and no, it’s not about how one of them looks like Haderlein) - stemming from videos I posted of their balloon ban blowout a few months ago. Some people aren’t too happy about the post where a guy speaks Spanish to John and Ken (and my titling of it): “Mexicans Like John And Ken“:

fleiva30 has made a comment on Mexicans Like John And Ken:

thanks to this morons hate crime and racism has risen ALOT..for the past 2 years
towards our hard working immigrant brothers…every fucking day they talk bad about
immigrants and when they commit a crime oh hell breaks out, but when a immigrant get
kill of a hate crime they dont give a fuck about it….Now what does that shows
u..what type of people are this two motherfuckers???????????

(By the way - I read that comment entirely in this accent, provided by Kelli after a City Council meeting where a chick complained about smoking..)

Yes, John and Ken are responsible for all of the racism in the world. Any time I’ve listened to their show and they’re ranting about immigrants, they’re only talking about illegal immigrants. Thanks to morons like “flavaflav30″ or whatever the fuck their name is, it’s spread around that John and Ken are talking shit about all Mexicans.

People forget something about Conservatives…from the hate that’s spewed by idiots in the Liberal media: We love immigrants in this country. This country was built on immigrants. However, we don’t love people taking advantage of this country - whether it’s through regular white people abusing the welfare system or terrorists trying to blow up and kill civilians or people jumping our borders and gaining the same things others work hard for illegally. Canadians aren’t really running over our borders to cheat the welfare system and commit crimes. This is OBVIOUSLY happening with illegal Mexican immigrants. I think a lot of people who are critical of people like me selectively hear things. I said ILLEGAL immigrants are a problem. I don’t care WHERE they’re coming from - but the truth is - they’re mostly coming from Mexico. 95% of the LAPD’s outstanding warrants for homicide are for illegal immigrants. Yep, I’m droppin’ knowledge.
And do you read the fucking news AT ALL? It’s not fat, balding beer-swilling white Linda Evans 1970’s calendar owning Bill Engvall fan AM radio listening Conservative guys putting out “hate crimes” on poor Mexican illegals. It’s Black on Latino and vice versa gang vilolence. I’m sorry - but unless you’re an innocent individual caught in the crossfire - I really don’t feel sympathy toward someone who is gang affiliated being killed in a gang shooting. That would be like feeling sorry for Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

But, yeah, keep posting YouTube comments. I’m sure that’s doing a lot more than you, I don’t know, actually researching and gaining the correct information or going out and voting or something. The Proc says: know your role and shut your mouth. Do I hate Mexicans? Fuck no. I ate at Rosarito yesterday and think Mexican Coca Cola is far better tasting than its American counterpart. Get a grip, son.

Try showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing, “I’ve seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I’d like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs, and ballots into my native language? Thanks!” They would laugh you out of the country. - Ann Coulter

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Who is the fuck is this mark?

I hear the new City Manager might be this Beck dude from Riverside. Oh great - here comes the RICO act and gang injunctions. Dude is from a small town and is gonna end up worshiping at Pasadena’s feet and rolling over for everyone - because he gets to leave his crap shack in the IE for a nice Bungalow on Paul Little’s street. Melekian’s gonna love this guy. At least I get to brush up all of my Inland Empire jokes:

Q. How does someone ace a job interview in Corona?

A: Have the same biker tattoos as the guy interviewing them.

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I just gotta speak for a minute about yesterday’s earthquake, though. Especially since it was the first of such magnitude I’ve ever been in. I remember a quake about 2-3 years ago that hit out in Yucaipa somewhere..I was working in Altadena, solving the XML comprehensive bottleneck (inside joke with me and Jason Siler), at the time and the building I was in just shook a little bit..I thought “Oh? That’s it?” Well, that’s because it was a 4.0….

The Star-News has it on the front page this morning. *Crosses fingers* Please don’t let it be Robert Hong reporting..please don’t let it be Robert Hong reporting…please don’t let it be Robe……
PHEW! DAVE AMPERSAND WITH THE TOP STORY! My heart was in my throat for a minute…

There wasn’t a blogosphere back when Northridge happened - so I’m interested in the numbers for people who went to, say, the Foothill Cities blog when this occurred. Kudos to them, as well, for apparently being the first source on the Internet - before any news organization - about the quake! As soon as I came back inside, I shouted “TO THE BLOGOSPHERE!” - not the Star-News or anything else. Rather have personal accounts during a natural disaster - and hey - we’re damn lucky our Internet was even WORKING!
I guess I’m also lucky I was outside - because I was shaken up (no pun intended) but not as much as I would have been if I were indoors. I was on Delacey Ave outside of my place of employment smoking a cigarette..when I heard a pop and felt a big rattle. Carl Kozlowski, reporter for the PW, was also outside and I’m like “WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?” The lamp post on Delacey was swaying to and fro. The chick came out of the perfume shop next to the Cigar shop and said some of her perfume fell down. It was a fucking earthquake.

I immediately called Kelli - I was lucky to get through. Then I called my parents - because I know they’d freak out if they saw “5.4 Earthquake Hits LA” and didn’t get a call from me. Luckily they weren’t watching the news at the time..although, I wish I had recorded the phone call - it was 60 kinds of hilarious:

Me (serious tone): “Mom, I’m just calling to let you know there was a 5.4 earthquake that just hit a few minutes ago…Kelli and I are ok.”

Mom (to my dad): “JAMES! A 5.4 EARTHQUAKE HIT LOS ANGELES! TURN ON THE TV!”

But yeah, I’m ok - just a little worried about aftershocks and if that was a foreshock or whatever - since I don’t know shit about Earthquakes. At very first, I thought someone just really pissed off Sid Tyler.

Ann Erdman’s got an awesome post about how they dealt with it at City Hall.

I should be getting some Earthquake Preparedness PSAs done soon. Poor bike shops in San Dimas - when will they learn? Good thing George Costanza wasn’t there.

I’m also glad CNN had their priorities straight. Obama going to work apparently beats biggest Earthquake since Northridge shaking up a bunch of his base.

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On an even more serious note, I just wanted to say RIP to Edie Huggins. She passed away yesterday at the age of 72. Edie was a part of my television watching experience growing up in Philly (and a staple of many, many other people’s news watching, for sure) and she’ll be sorely missed.

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Playin’ with the Queen of Hearts,

- AP

While we don’t know yet who is running against Victor Gordo (or Sid Tyler or Chris Holden) early next year - we do know that there’s a kinda big Presidential election in November, a stupid Bond Measure that will try to pass, and an Assembly race as well - pitting Democrat & Sopranos extra Fat Tony against the GOP’s Brian Fuller. It’s time for Election coverage so cue the JPG:

The Proc says Brian Fuller deserves your vote. He is the kind of guy that would come over to your house, chill on your couch, be cool with drinking iced tap water `cause you didn’t make a run to Von’s yet and go to dinner at BJ’s in Arcadia with you - so that’s what we did on Saturday night. He also doesn’t seem to mind my occasional use of the word “Fuck“. Fuckin’ a. No Garvanza $50 fundraisers here. And, for all you nosy FPPC people out there, he bought his own dinner - so - no scandals.

Brian Fuller also has a lot of good ideas for the community. He’s not big on the government making bullshit programs that eat up taxpayer money but don’t really do a damn thing - ones that are just to give people jobs so people can try and get re-elected over and over. He doesn’t care for lobbyists or special interest groups that are trying to save their own asses by paying politicians to do their bidding.

Here are some superficial reasons why he should get your vote:

• Drives a bitchin’ yellow PT Cruiser
• Has been to all 50 states - including the Northwest Angle
• Is proud of his Scottish heritage, wants to buy a kilt
• Like artichokes on his pizza
• Likes bluegrass music
• Can quote “Pulp Fiction” like nobody’s business
• Survived driving off a cliff. True story.

Oh yeah, and he’s single, ladies. So - when you go to the polls in November - if you really want all this “change” people are talkin’ about - why not do something a little different and vote for a guy who isn’t part of the “Good Old Boys” club around here? You’ll be happy you did.

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Let’s get some Sid Tyler Facts goin’ in this biznitch:

• Knock Knock…. Who’s There?…. Sid Tyler….. Sid Tyler who?….. (gunfire erupts)
• When Sid Tyler was in high school and he was taking algebra, his teacher allowed all of his solutions for “x” to be “Sid Tyler”.
• When Sid Tyler exercises, the machine gets stronger.
• Sid Tyler banged a mermaid.
• Oxygen requires Sid Tyler to live.
• The media has coined the phrase “staycation“. Sid Tyler has coined the phrase “killcation“.
• When that bus crashed into the Jack In The Box, people thought Sid Tyler didn’t order extra onions.
• Sid Tyler earns maximum wage.
• “Made by Sid Tyler” is imprinted under China.

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! I caught a LOT of the City Council meeting last night and while my rundowns pale in comparison to Dormitas, I’ll try to floss like I’m him any way:

• I thought there was going to be a finale to Pasadena City Manager Idol - but the judges couldn’t make a decision just yet, due in part (Bogey said) to the absences of Sexy Steve, El Pollo Gordo, and “Obligatory Absence” Madison.
• There is, however, a brand new City Clerk - as Mark Jomsky debuted last night. I think a bag of potatoes has more fucking personality. He’s our own version of Toby Flenderson.
• Mike Adamle was named General Manager of WWE RAW last night, so take his name out of the City Manager search.
• The Gestapo will pass their Smoking Ban on August 11th or sometime in September, said Michelle Bag-nair-us.
• Council opposed Prop 7 - mostly because Pasadena is its own power company. 76% people or something like that, support it. Just goes to show you how Pasadena Council can be “We don’t care what everyone else thinks” one day and then “We need to be more like (insert uber Liberal hippie dippie city here)” the next day.
• “Nearly bringing me the hotness but not quite succeeding like some other people do” of the night went to some Prop 7 supporter named Alexandra Simpson during public comment. Just out of college and already doing her political thang. Meeeeeow.
• Bogaard couldn’t remember Fat Tony’s field rep’s name..Adam something…led the pledge (which he slipped up on…probably hard for a liberal to pledge the flag) and bored me with about other stuff. I’ll just call the guy Stacks.
• Something like 71% of the people who live in Downtown make $50,000 a year. So do they think they’re better than me? `Cause they’re not.
• That dude who has been commenting on my blog and some other blogs, Eddie “Banjo” Marks, gave me a call last night. We’ve been e-mailing for a while. He sounded a little drunk..and he’s not even posted a single blog of his own yet…but he seems pretty cool. He is legit from Kentucky - but is living here in California now after doing some work in Mexico. Long ass story. Wish he’d tell it.
• I think the real star of the night was our buddy Sid. At first, he was pissing me off with his “let’s ban smoking in apartments and condos” shit…and then, he was talking to some chick who was an entimologist or epidermist or Episcopalian or something…and he was getting all excited and asked her out for coffee. Chris Holden even said “Sid got excited…shiiiiiiiiiiiit.” That was hilarious stuff.
• The usual b.s. all around. Dormy will go into more detail, I’m sure. No Madison…must have been a really hot stripper to bang somewhere. I don’t think McAustin was gonna put up with his shit this week, any way.

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Back on June 28th, I posted about how I keep running into this homeless lady in the Duarte-Arcadia-Monrovia area who looks like a cracked out Billy Idol. Well, I have seen her TWICE now in the past few weeks. Kelli & I encountered her walking up Huntington in Arcadia outside of 100-to-1, talking to herself - and then we saw her on Saturday outside of BJ’s in Arcadia..again pulling the “I left my bag on the bus” bullshit. I even said to her this time “I JUST SAW YOU AT THE WAL-MART IN DUARTE A FEW MONTHS AGO PULLING THE SAME SHIT!” and she just says “Thank you..” and walks away to harass other people in the parking lot.

Next time, I’m telling this bitch to fuck off.

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Walkabout Pasadena is back. “Part II: Ice Cream Social” is kind of a weak title. How about “Part II: Electric Boogaloo” or “Part II: Day Of Reckoning”? I actually think these events are good and sadly - I won’t be able to attend this one due to prior commitments. I think something needs to be said - not only of the walkability of Pasadena but of the bus-ability of Pasadena, particularly the ARTS bus, as well.

I’m also wondering when they picked this date - `cause it’s suspiciously on the same day my friends at the Pasadena Republican Club are doing their precinct walks. (By the way, did anyone notice how the IndyMac Star-Bus Crash reported the Democrat HQ opening but not the Republican?  A biased pansy runs that place…)
Plus - I’m not going to let anyone else steal my kiosk idea - although I think Margaret McAustin may have unknowingly done so.

Looks like there’s going to be ice cream…and Bogaard. So - find out which takes longer to complete: Bogaard finishing a sentence or ice cream melting. The results will sweep you away!

Happy Tuesday.

- AP

So, a bus crashed into the Jack In The Box on Rosemead & Colorado on Sunday. Kelli and I were coffee table shopping and happened to be going down Rosemead around 1 in the afternoon and saw the end of the mess - a bunch of fire trucks and cop cars surrounding a huge tow truck picking up a bus that had its windows completely shattered. Really sick sight.  Usually when this kind of thing happens with a bus, it means the driver was high on drugs or drunk or something. Let’s hope that’s not the case and let’s be thankful no one was seriously injured.

Also - since no one was seriously injured, it’s ok that I made this:

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I was tagged to answer this survey by West Coast Grrlie Blather - who is really good at tagging since she lives in the Northwest:

Here’s one for all you locals: The Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) is doing a “Alcohol & Drug Community Survey.” It has some interesting stuff on it, like ‘my community is good at handling changes’ (not sure what this question is getting at) and ‘parents in my community monitor their children’s behavior.’ There are a few open-ended questions that you get to answer freestyle, like “the biggest challenge facing youth in my community is…” and “the best thing about my community is…”

I defy anyone to take this survey without mentioning PUSD. I don’t think it can be done.

I don’t know what the PPHD will do with this data, but I hope they will make the results public. There’s a link to the survey on PPHD’s web site (scroll down and you’ll see it).

Seems the quiz is one of those “Disagree, Slightly Disagree, Neutral, Slightly Agree, Agree” type quizzes. Here’s the questions after the demographic stuff:

3. I am aware of what the City of Pasadena Recovery Center does.

Slightly Agree: I’m assuming they have something to do with some kind of recovery.

4. I volunteer in my community.

Agree: My blog does more for the community before noon than most City Councilmembers do all day.

5. I interact with youth in my community.

Disgaree: Fuck no. I don’t want Chris Hansen at my house.

6. My community is good at handling changes.

Slightly disgaree: We’re talkin’ about Pasadena, right?

7. My community is safe.

Slightly agree: Are any of us really “safe”?

8. My community’s schools are safe.

Slightly disagree: They’re cool until the superintendent brings in a gangsta rapper to talk to the kids.

The Game is currently working on a new album entitled “Bond Measure A Cap In His Ass”

9. I would attend a workshop on how to help my child refuse alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

Slightly disagree: So, we’re so god damned lazy in this country that we’re now delegating PARENTING?!

10. Parents in my community provide clear expectations to their children.

Neutral: I mind my own fucking business.

11. Parents in my community monitor their children’s behaviors.

Neutral: See #10

12. There are positive opportunities for the youth in my community.

Slightly agree: I think the City of Pasadena truly does provide positive opportunities for the youth. There’s always a wall to tag or a corner to panhandle on somewhere.

13. The youth in my community engage in risky behavior.

Agree: Well, they were engaging in Risky Business - but then Tom Cruise was going to sue them for copyright infrigement.

14. Underage drinking is a problem in my community.

Agree: Along with Facebook, “Brooke Knows Best“, and the shitty music kids like…sure.

15. Underage smoking is a problem in my community.

Neutral: Ya know, Pasadena’s smoking questions are starting to sound a lot like Nazi Germany. “Fünfzehn:. Underage Jews are a problem in my community.”

16. Drug use by minors is a problem in my community.

Slightly agree: We do live in Southern California….

17. Drug abuse among adults is a problem in my community.

Slightly agree: And possibly members of City Council - I mean, a lot of them seem like they’re on crack.

18. The youth in my community are very responsible.

Disagree: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

19. It is OK to buy illegal substances for minors.

Disagree: What kind of question is this any way? Let’s do an online survey..where we can easily track IP’s..and ask if it’s OK to buy illegal substances for minors. Did you see 19 a? “Is it ok to have donkey shows in your garage?”

20. It is OK for adults to provide a place for minors to use drugs or alcohol.

Slightly disgaree: Ya know, I think if your 16 year old son is at home and dad gives him a beer to watch the baseball game with, there really, really isn’t anything wrong with it. But if dad is having twenty minors over and throwing a big party full of alcohol - then it’s a problem. Moderation, people.

21. The youth in my community are in good shape physically.

Slightly agree: You see some of those jailbait chicks in Old Town with their asses hanging out all the time. And how.

By the way - these questions are starting to get disturbing! 21a. “Does the 15 year old chick in your neighborhood look exceptionally hot in her Catholic School girl uniform?”

22. There are positive opportunities for adults in my community.

Slightly agree: There’s a lot of opportunities - if you know where to find them. If there aren’t, you can MAKE them. Pet Shop Boys sang it best, right Larry? People are lazy - so they don’t. They want everything handed to them.
23. The biggest challenge facing the youth in my community is:

An environment that simply wants to pass the buck. Shitty parents blame the shitty schools. Shitty schools blame the shitty government. Shitty government raises taxes to make everything shittier. No one ever has the balls to admit the fact there just might be “shitty kids”, though.

24. The best thing about my community is:

The Proc.
25. My community really needs:

A WENDY’S!

26. The types of things I would like to volunteer for are:

Meh, I do enough.

27. Additional Comments:

Cut down with the creepy questions.

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Have blue jays always been douchebags and I’m just noticing now? The flock in my neighborhood are taking over nWo-style and drinking some of that Madison Juice. They’re flying down and jumping on cats backs and flying away.

I, for one, welcome our blue jay overlords. Just don’t try to get me to start cheering for Toronto. I still hate Joe Carter.

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Be seeing you (and especially you),

- AP

Apparently - I don’t “exist” on the Internet, or people don’t want the world to know about me - according to Ann Erdman’s links as well as a certain public editor - who is also probably a big fan of Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants and waiting in line for the sequel - over at the Star-News.

Yeah, I think it’s hilarious that they both have a kind of “don’t mention The Proc” policy around their places of employment. First of all, my site gets hundreds of hits from both the City of Pasadena and the Star-News. Somebody’s readin’ this shit. It’s also hilarious because nobody - and I mean nobody - can really stop the power of Google. Really ruins that whole “the best way to insult someone is to completely ignore them logic.”

I for one - take Erdman’s “No linking to Proctor” and Larry Wilson’s “no mentioning Proctor” policies as a compliment. I mean, the funny thing is, if Ann is trying to please Steve “No Balls” Madison, she should probably take down the links to some of the other blogs I write for or any blogs that link to my stuff. So, that’s like, half the blogosphere around here. Good luck with your “Censorship”.

And, Larry, I know for a fact that half of your staff reads my blog - and thousands more outside of your little world. So you can continue living in a Proctor-less, boring world while everyone else reaps the rewards of this website. Have fun writing about garden parties and lawn bowling and stupid old limo liberals and stiff shafts and how you’re “totally straight acting.” Oh, and, isn’t “Hiding” the Internet just as bad as the guys like Dick Cheney that you criticize and “never watch” week in and week out.

The Proc is all around you. Nowhere to hide, kids. Para example - a hilarious e-mail I got yesterday from Dirk Allcreaturesgreatandsmall:

Subject: No more comments on the hotness of our reporters
From: “Dan Abendschein”
Date: Fri, July 25, 2008 10:51 am
To: teamproctor@proctorformayor.com

Aaron: I tend to think your “charming” (in the sense of a staggering drunk
approaching woman at a bar) sense of humor is harmless, but our female
reporters have made it pretty clear that they really don’t like it. So I
deleted your latest about Jen McLain, and will delete such comments in the
future.

If you are hurting for material, I suggest a top ten list on why the
Phillies don’t have what it takes to make the playoffs.

You got it, dude. No more talking about how Jennifer McClain is the new Star-News sexpot or how every guy who reads page 2 wants to fuck her seven ways to Sunday. Not a problem at all.

You’d think you’d wanna sell papers..and what sells better than sex?

While we’re talking about newspapers - the battle between “Mr. Thursday Morning” Andre Coleman and Frank “Coast To Coast” Girardot over the Richter mess has been heating up on the blogosphere for the past few days. It’s getting so bad that I’m going to have to have Andre vs Frank in an Extreme Rules Match on Smackdown Vs. RAW 2008. Coming soon.

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Pasadena’s Blackwater..I mean..Inter-Con Security has been all over the news the past few days. Here’s Joe Piasecki’s article in the PW and more parking coverage from the PSN.

I love it how people keep complaining and complaining and complaining and Douchey McDoucherson still doesn’t care because he’s “looking out” for a business in his District. Oh yeah? Just like you were looking out for the businesses in Old Town when you came up with your smoking ban (which you were then coincidentally not present for..) - with all the coffee shops and open-air eateries and..a fucking CIGAR SHOP in your District.

The thing is - the Parking Gestapo Enforcement has been shoddy and suspect Citywide for years. Whether it’s the “chose-this-over-Wal-Mart-cashier” Inter-Con kids or the City itself, they’ve been targeting specific people and specific areas for ages. It’s just now on the table because a lot of out-of-towners are going to complain - and you know how Pasadena has the biggest hard-on for out-of-towners.

Fuck Inter-Con. Their company isn’t even run properly and has tons of controversy with regard to its hiring and firings and general goings on over there. Is this really a company that we want to have a contract with Pasadena? And why are we giving them a YEAR to clean up their act? Why not 6 months? 3 months? 30 days?! What happened to the Pasadena Way that Barney Melekian told me about: “fair but firm”?

It’s just another way The City Government passes the buck onto a private company - so nobody on Council gets the finger directly pointed at them. Just another “cover our asses” move that reeks of Limo Liberal socialist elitism.

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There’s about to be a much less bloodier and much more artistic (in the gay way) Civil War here in Los Angeles County - between the people of the San Gabriel Valley and everyone’s favorite City in the world (but not mine), Los Angeles. It’s fargin’ war!

There’s going to be a sales tax increase measure on the November ballot (along with the bullshit PUSD measure we already have to deal with there in the Dena). Everyone here in the SGV (including me) except Fat Tony are concerned that the sales tax will be used so LA can build a stupid subway to the beach, instead of for monies to extend the Gold Line.

Why would I want to be paying more taxes so the lame-asses over in Los Angeles can not ride public transportation? Does the County really need to involve all of us in this shit? I hate L.A. so much. After being immersed in the “Hollywood Club Scene” (as K-Todd used to say) for years, I’m so sick of that place. I don’t even remember the last time I even went to Eagle Rock. Seriously..can’t stand it. You think the limo liberals and old money staid-asses I make fun of here in the Crown City are bad? They’re nothing compared to the fake-titted, non-voting-liberal, KROQ-listening, America-bashing, dregs of society that come out of the City of Angels. And don’t get me started on what you’ll see in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium. I’ll go there when I need an air-brushed Virgin Mary t-shirt.

Yeah, let’s totally raise the sales tax (and housing costs through the proposed PUSD Bond Measure) - what - with the economy finally slapping the Dena even the face. Even The Pasadena Way can’t hide from the reality of an economic downturn.

It’s not even about a new tax or paying more money - I just can’t stand L.A. So, definitely voting “no” on this one - on principle alone. I’m on the side of the San Gabriel Valley on this one - even if I have to be in the same room with a weird chick named Hilda.
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I love how all the Obamamaniacs can say about John McCain is that he’s “old”

I’ll leave you all on this beautiful Saturday with the following stuff. First - I’ve been entertained by Avie Joe and his/her “Society Of Lemmings” blog. Even though some stuff can come off sounding like a 17 year old is writing it (hey - my stuff is usually much worse), it’s an enjoyable read and perspective.

Oh - and here are a few more reasons why you shouldn’t vote for Barack Obama. Uh-oh. I just said the “not voting for Obama” sentence again. Preparing for insecure liberal hate mail in 3…2….1…

Be seeing you,

- AP

The Proc says: don’t think for a moment that I wasn’t about to end this week without giving someone a Ham And Egger award!

We’ve got quite a few candidates this week, lots of people in the front-running - but unless you’re hating on America - there can be only one.

Thomas Himes, an intern of Frank Girardot, vaunted a Universal Fail earlier this week against PW reporter Andre Coleman when he tried to rip him for an article Coleman wrote last week. Coleman’s newest story in the P-Dub discusses a broken jaw and the location of a gun in a police officer’s obvious murder - something Himey couldn’t get his hands on.

As a convoy of Wahhmbulances raced to Himes place of employment - something else came out of this whole ordeal: Thomas, you get your first prize in journalism - The Ham And Egger Of The Week!  Hey - you can call the PW a tabloid all you want - at least they’re not writing about Miss Cleo!
Hopefully it’ll hang on your wall 10 years from now when you’re workin’ at the Wall Street Journal - or Wal-Mart.

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There’s some other good stuff in the this week’s PW:

John Muir High School bullshits through another school year.

Inter-Con:  Pasadena’s Blackwater.

Jim Laris has the balls to get it right in the PW.  Ellen Snortland is planning her next boring, useless column as we speak.

Oh yeah - and this isn’t from the PW - but check out Edwin Decker’s sad yet interesting shark attack article in the San Diego City Beat.

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For the 3 of us smokers still left in the Crown City, I found a place where you can not only get cheap cancer sticks - but not have to wait in a long line of cars to get gasoline during rush hour, either.

It’s the ARCO at Kinneloa and Colorado, across from the “big” Target - near UnTown. You can get major brands for under $4.00 and they even have a cheap brand caled “Gold Coast” which will run you about $2.75. Plus, nobody ever seems to get their gas there - you can be in and out and back on your way in no time.

Speaking of things that can kill you - I’d like to point out to any City officials reading (and I’m sure you are!) that the crosswalk at Vista and E. Foothill Blvd is QUITE dangerous!

Nobody follows the crosswalk rule about stopping for pedestrians - except for MTA buses - and even then, cars just pass up the bus. It sometimes takes 3 minutes just to cross this street. I’ve also been nearly hit by a car twice in the past few months. Just a friendly reminder that it’s a little safer to walk up a half block and cross at the light on Sierra Madre Blvd and Foothill - but even then, you’ve got some crazy people making illegal left turns from N Sierra Madre onto Foothill.

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Got a really nice e-mail from a reader of the blog about my quest to find out just what The Pasadena Way means to everyone. Here’s the take of someone, from a PUSD standpoint:

Hmmm….the way I see it, it’s pretty clear that the majority of Pasadena residents
with school-age children have them in private school - including several, if not all
of the BOE and City Council representatives.? What does this say to our
population….?? That it’s ok to live in Pasadena, but god forbid you actually
utilize the schools in the city you live.Now, I personally am not trying to be hypocritical.? I have a middle school student
in private school ONLY because after 7 years in PUSD she didn’t “get” a middle
school.? The Open Enrollment of PUSD sucks….there is no communication that you are
only short-listed on your first choice school….and the entire endeavor to get a
school of choice is a crapshoot.? With Sierra Madre Middle School now open for
business, there needs to be greater efforts to allow long-standing PUSD students
filtration into some of these schools.My PUSD days are literally on a year-by-year basis…as long as my younger kids have
decent teachers, I’m fine (just WISH that Don Benito would rid them of that hag they
call a principal.? She’s done NOTHING but turn what once WAS a top school of choice,
into a ‘day-by-day’ stay for many families!)

Ya know, it’s pretty sad when you have people on the BOE who have kids in private school. It also sucks that parents have to literally gamble with their children’s education around here.

I guess common sense isn’t a prerequisite to serve on the board.

The lame ass bond measure isn’t the only thing going on the ballot in November, though.  A tax increase which nobody here in the San Gabriel Valley supports (well, Portantino supports it - but he’s too much of a pussy to say he supports it) - but LA Mayor Villatelemundo does support -  is hitting our ballot in November.  The funds are “going to be used to pay for the Gold Line first”, said The Abomination Of Mayors.  Sure thing, Antonio, just like you told your wife you’d never sleep with a hot news anchor from Telemundo.

You can read Dave Avenue’s excellent coverage on it here and here.  Ya know, the more I read this guy’s stuff, the less I remember that guy..what was his name?  The dude before Fred Ortega?  The guy with the deep voice…what was his name? Oh yeah:  K-Todd!
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It’s time for the newest segment here at proctorformayor.com: The Slang Word Of The Week!

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Today’s word is: floss.

floss (flossed, flossin’ or flossing) [prob. modif. of F floche - soft, weak, (of silk fiber), fr. Gascon, fr. L fluxus, lit., loose, flowing, pp. of fluere to flow] vi 1 : to flaunt, to boast “HE WAS FLOSSING ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER’S GRADES” 2 : to pretend, to feign “HE’S FLOSSING LIKE HE’S A CEO” 3 : to show off 4 : to look stylish and attractive 4 : vt to outstrip in a game or competition “YOU GOT FLOSSED!”

Mayor Bogaard was flossing his affordable housing strategies to everyone at the Council meeting on Monday.

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Do people remember that former District 2 Councilmember Paul Little has a blog?  I read it all the time and I enjoy it regularly.  However, I think there are a few things he could do to increase his readership.

TOP TEN THINGS PAUL LITTLE CAN DO TO INCREASE HIS BLOG READERSHIP

10.   Post a weekly comic strip about Jim Lomako and Stacy Lewis
9.  Up-to-the-minute girls’ softball scores
8.  Just make it a whole `nother blog of calling Steve Madison a douche.
7.  Just rant and rave about last week’s episode of “Torchwood”
6.  Post videos of Paul’s renditions of current & popular hip-hop songs under the name “Master P”
5.  Mention Proctor every other word.
4.  Turn it over to his teen daughter, make site become “Gossip Girl” message board
3.  Post some pics of that hot blonde chick on the Board of Directors For Old Pasadena.
2.  Rename blog “Uncle Paul’s Bloggin’ Kitchen”
1.   Make shit up

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Be seeing you,

- AP

Pick up a PW today! The 99 Cent Chef is my special guest in my weekly “5 Questions” segment! Find out which 99 Cents Stores sell BEER!

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By the way - people lookin’ for me at last night’s Pasadena Republican Club shindig ought to know I had to work overtime yesterday and couldn’t make it. My apologies.

Anyone else notice a mini-war going on between Councilmembers Maggie McAustin and Maserati Madison? Dormitas talks about it a little bit in this week’s Council blow-by-blows.

Madison made some backhanded/condescending comment toward McAustin at this week’s meeting - basically making fun of her for not being on City Council as long as he has.

I think Madison’s just being a baby because McAustin totally crushed him a few weeks ago and his everyone and their mother probably saw Steve get owned on YouTube.

It’s time for this guy to step down from Council or something. He uses his position as something to show off to all the ho’s down in Old Town..or something. They all sit up there and talk about The Pasadena Way and here’s a guy who definitely doesn’t fit that description.  Ya know, Steve, I think you can pick up some anti-douchebaggery breath spray at Lula Mae.
And I’m tellin’ ya - if he does run for Mayor - I’ll run, too. Just to make sure he doesn’t win. Listen all y’all it’s a Sabotage.
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“See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends…” - Goodfellas

Fat Tony is having a fundraiser - and you’re invited. And by, invited, he means, pay $50 or wind up in one of the fake rivers we have around here.

Everyone is going to be there! Bill Bogaard’s wife, Mark Kenyon and Clare Marter Kenyon (their names even SOUND like they’re limo liberals!!!), oh - and since it’s overlooking the Arroyo and South Pasadena, you won’t have to worry about any black people being there.

Whatevs. I got Brian Fuller’s back. The thing is - how come Portantino needs a fundraiser if Fuller’s campaign isn’t “threatening” (wow, that sounds familiar). Kinda like Bogey raised like..$65,000..to run against me?

Seems a little, I dunno, mafioso to me? I’m just sayin’. Doesn’t help the stereotype either when you’re from Long Branch, NJ.

*cue The Sporanos theme* Woke up this morning…

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A bunch of Starbucks in the area are closing.  Blah, blah, fuckity blah.  I noticed that you’ve got a Starbucks on North Hill Avenue and then right around the corner, another Starbucks on Bonnie and Colorado.  Seriously…not even a mile away from each other.

Maybe that’s why they’re going to have to close stores?  Ever hear of a term called oversaturation?  I’m all for companies succeeding in our capitalist society and I’m all for people not being penalized for being successful - but you wonder when the coffee bubble is gonna burst when you’re got 16 Starbucks per square mile.

Ya see, this is what happen when hippies grow up, have kids, and those kids start coffee businesses.  They don’t think ahead because they’re too busy smoking pot, trying to infuse the pot into their coffee, and listening to Jack Johnson or Dave Matthews or whomever is popular with the stoners this half of the year.

I, for one, welcome these store closings.  Just so I can see annoying fucking hipsters wandering aimlessly down the street because how dare they drink Winchell’s or gas station coffee!  Those trucker hats won’t save you now.

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Seacrest out,

- AP

Inspired by a post over at Cartersblog - I continue my look at the Ten Things I Love About Pasadena. Here’s #4:

#4 - Unincorporated Pasadena!

It’s got a Pasadena mailing address but can’t vote for City Council. It’s seen in ads for businesses as part of the city but it’s really part of LA County. It’s Unincorporated, untouched, and uncensored East Pasadena at its finest.

Know that song by Petula Clark, “Downtown?” Well, why don’t you try and learn a little bit about our unwanted neighbor to the East through these lyrics. It’s called “Untown“.

When you’re alone
The wife is making you lonely,
You can always go Untown
When you’ve got worries,
And no known case of Herpes
Seems to help, I know, Untown

Just listen to the music of the Cholos in the pick-up
Don’t linger on the sidewalk too long for the big stick-up
How can you lose?

The hookers are much more Asian there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all you cares and go
Untown, things’ll be great when you’re
Untown, no finer place for sure,
Untown, Happy Ending Massages waiting for you
(Untown)

Don’t hang around
And get into fights at R Place

There’s a nudie bar right there

Maybe you know
The Show At Papa Joe’s

For a $50 blow…go Untown

Just listen to the crazy man singing Christmas carols
You’ll be runnin from ‘im too while I am laughing barrells
Happy again

The lights are always burned out there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares and go
Untown - Circuit City next right,
Untown, cops will bust you tonight and take you,
Downtown, wife will bail you out now
(Untown Untown)

Downtown
(Downtown)

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Give you a handjob

So, maybe I’ll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go to
Untown things’ll be great when you’re
Untown don’t wait a minute more,
Untown - VD is waiting for you

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Occasionally, The Proc has to tear someone a new one. For the betterment of Pasadena, ya see.

Thomas Hines or Himes or Hives or whatever his name is, an intern for Frank Girardot, recently had this to say on Frank’s blog:

The death of retired Pasadena Police Lt. David Richter has highlighted the need for responsible journalism in a time when tabloid reporting and the sentiments of bloggers are confused with news.

Richter’s abandoned car was found by a water-filled pit in Irwindale last January. Police assumed the retired lieutenant had either taken his own life or simply walked away from his financial troubles.

The later discovery of Richter’s corpse and a firearm under a nearby overpass seems to corroborate the theory that Richter took his own life. But then there’s the conspiracy theorists, and admittedly the case possesses all the potential of a Law and Order episode.

Thursday, I read an article by Andre Coleman of the Pasadena Weekly. Buried on page 13, the article uses an unnamed source and anonymous letter to create speculation amongst readers. After a short recap of the facts, Coleman delves into a lengthy digress about an anonymous letter sent to members of the Pasadena City Counsel. The letter alleges everything from police malfeasance to racism.

Coleman’s sublimation of this anonymous letter leads to another anonymous source:

“According to an earlier conversation with one coroner’s office employee who did not wish to be named, among the factors that may have led authorities to reopen the case (the case was never closed) was t