Call me old fashioned, but I do enjoy my local Obon Festival. The Pasadena Buddhist Temple is holding its Obon this weekend (Saturday and Sunday)—details here.
The best teriyaki chicken east of the international dateline is being prepared right now. Thanks to a mild on shore flow, the whole neighborhood smells like teriyaki. If you’ve never seen taiko drumming in person, it’s worth stopping by. They have bonsai and ikebana on display, and there are karate and aikido demonstrations. We may even see the return of the Elvi dancers.
Photo courtesy of this site.
You can see my photos of last year’s Obon here.
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Did you see Sandy Banks piece, A lesson in Senate hearings, in the LA Times today? Here’s a quote:
“Over the course of my career as a journalist, I have learned that people can see the same set of facts differently. That doesn’t mean they are racist or stupid or hard-hearted,but that their unique experiences have primed them with particular expectations, fears, and sensitivities.”
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I’m going to repeat myself. “I have been a contributer to Pasadena’s Political Underbelly but have not posted there recently. Even though I am a contributor, I don’t have the ability to delete or edit posts written by others. This post (note sound of “wicked power-mad laugh”) makes that quite clear.”
In other words, I am not Dormitas. But you knew that, didn’t you?
West Coast Grrlie Blather 
I know your not Dormitas because I CALLED you up and asked you. You said no. I asked you if a certain blogger had contacted you to remove a offending post from the Dormitas blog and you told me you had not been contacted by the offended party through your blog…THIS BLOG
Furthermore since your not the owner of the other blog and have zero editorial control over it, you are “not in position to change as much as a comma” (your quote to me.) If further evidence is needed to prove that you do good work on THIS blog YOUR blog I have the written proof of the donation I made to Church of Angels with the signature of it’s rector Rev Robert J. Gaestel as concerns this blog entry on THIS blog
https://grrl.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/you-do-not-have/
proof
did you go? I so want to try their Sukiyaki, but haven’t hit the right date.
The lies and cover-ups
‘continue’
Pasadena Adjacent’s initials spelled backwards?
(get ready for this)
AP.
Nice try, Kelly. But you and your Neo-Bircher friends like Ann Erdman are being ‘outed’
Virginia well tell the truth this Monday
(the truth will set you free)
I am so mad that I missed it (paranoia?) again. I did see Elvis tho! The real one is (racist) NOT Japanese.
Here’s the proof to freak even Mata Hari (above initials backwards and rhymes with ghiz) out: