We hope you have a happy end of 2009 and on to a better 2010 (we weren't too fond of this year!) Updates as warranted today — we're planning on ushering in the new year in our jammies, watching the ball drop on Time Square, with a martini and the police scanner telling us what the folks in Pasadena have gotten themselves into.

(We are also feverishly working on our annual "Top 10 Altadena Stories" roundup, which will appear at the stroke of midnight tonight!)

We've never liked that "Auld Lang Syne" seemed to be the only New Year's song (and what does that MEAN, anyway?)  Local troubador Bill Burnett wrote a new song that captures its melancholy nature.  Do regularly check out Burnett's Song Mine for more goodies like this one!

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