Altadenablog has gained an incredible amount of respectability in the past week, what with increased page views since the town council election, a fan phone call from our favorite Pasadena Weekly correspondant Andre Coleman, our first sponsor, jealousy over our first sponsor at Foothill Cities Blog, and other pats on the head. 

So now we’re starting something new: a countdown.  Our friend Monica Hubbard sent an email several days ago, asking Pasadena Star News’ Under the Dome by Dan Abendschein to add us to their list of fine local blogs.  To date there has been no response — so we’re starting the count NOW:

Now, in fairness, Frank Giradot’s Crime Scene Blog,  also under the Pasadena Star News umbrella, has blogrolled us for several months now. But not to cast aspersions on any of the fine blogs Under the Dome has blogrolled so far and the work these folks do,  many of ’em haven’t been updated for weeks or months.  And yet here we sit, Altadena’s community newsblog (now sponsored), ignored by Under the Dome despite giving you the latest in Tom Cruise’s movements.

So, Day 1.  It’s up to you, Dan.