Polly Low asked me to post this to our site:

Today's San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Pasadena Star-News picked up an opinion piece from the New York Sun on the coming of Go-Go Curry to New York.  The writer foresaw this as the next "thing."  First curry, then kaiseki:

http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinions/ci_5467637

I think she's way off base.  After all, Hurry Curry and Curry House have both been here in Los Angeles for years, yet neither shows the sort of crossover appeal of even an El Pollo Loco.  I'm sure they do a fine business, but they're not going to be popping up on every corner.

Saturday March 17, 2007, from 9am - 3pm, at the Southern California Edison parking lot (the lot west of Walnut Grove), it's Household Hazardous and E-Waste Round Up Day.

What they'll accept:  brake fluid, paint, paint thinner, cleaners with acid or lye, pesticides, herbicides, household and car batteries, pool chemicals, motor oil, oil filters, expired pharmaceuticals, anti-freeze, flourescent light bulbs, computer monitors, televisions, computer cpu's, keyboards printers, cellular phones, etc.

You often here the refrain that "every vote counts."  And, every now and then, we find proof of this maxim.  This past March, this lesson was reiterated in Temple City, our neighbor to the north.  I've linked to a Los Angeles Times (free registration required to read) and a San Gabriel Valley Tribune article on that election:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-temple11mar11,1,6574300.story

Well congrats to you I hope you let Polly do her job and not make her your puppet. Don't forget that theres alot of Rosemead and not just where you all live. And if she wants to start cleaning up the city she should start with San Gabriel Bl and Garvey Ave where the day labors and street people hang out all day doing nothing but bringing the property value down. Also you union people was hating on Walmart for help people who needed jobs and helping me stop paying stop paying them from my tax money.

For you trivia fans, that's what the first marathon runner is alleged to have said at the end of his run, as he collapsed and died:

http://www.answers.com/topic/pheidippides

The Los Angeles Marathon over the weekend had me thinking of that story.

And it's somewhat fitting for the news from Rosemead tonight:  Polly Low was elected to the Rosemead City Council!

Tell your Neighbors/Tell your Friends!

Election day is Tuesday, March 6, 2007.  Polls are open from 7am - 8pm.  If you're not sure where your polling place is, click on the link to your right and follow the directions.

Also, after the polls close, both Victor and Polly are planning victory parties at their respective campaign headquarters.  If I'm ambitious, I may try to set up a telescope on the lawn next to Polly's HQ for Saturn viewing.  That's assuming I'm not still trying to finish a conference paper that I need to present on Thursday morning!

To the surprise of no one, the SGV Tribune endorsed the reelection of the incumbents in Rosemead.  Not only did I disagree with the endorsement--I also found their reasoning to be weak.  So I wrote a letter to the Tribune.  Here's the part they printed:

I take issue with your newspaper's endorsements in the Rosemead City Council election. The two incumbents have served 28 and 32 years on the council, yet the Tribune's endorsement contained no long list of accomplishments that would justify why they should remain in office. Like the incumbents themselves, the editorial wants us to pretend that history doesn't matter.