$80,000 more for Dinsmoremoneydownthepit House.

Is, of course, NOT coming to Rosemead. But they did get a cover story in Fortune Magazine. Read it here.

Chuck Lyons' vanity track is going to cost this year's Rosemead High School football team an entire year on the road. It'll also cost them ticket and concessions revenue. But they'll still come out ahead, because of the $800,000 the city of Rosemead is paying for their new track.

On a related note, I knew that all the Bell controversy would lead at least one stupid person to stand up and say how good it was that Rosemead didn't become a charter city (as though every charter city has Bell's problems). Last night's meeting did not disappoint in that respect, although it was a pretty tremendous waste of time.

I love watching Huell Howser, which makes watching his visit to the Bagdad Cafe, near Newberry Springs, CA, so painful to watch:

At least the fifth homicide of the year within a one-mile radius of Tyler and Santa Anita, reports the Los Angeles Times.

It was such a funny headline, I couldn't resist. Sadly, two of the monkeys were already dead.