We Read The Weeklies
....so we can get the distribution box to make that exciting banging noise when we close it!
Hey! SFist was mentioned in the SF Weekly's Dog Bites! Preen, preen. Okay, you have to scroll down, and it's mostly only because we link to Hooray for Anything, but wrap it up, we'll take it! The Weekly prints a guest column from a Mission Latina activist about the PUNI controversy, which notes that the Weekly is not willing to publicly apologize for the strip. Cover article: a hilar. article where the District 5 race has been converted into a Yu-Gi-Oh card game. Attack and defense cards include the "Ghost of Matt Gonzalez" endorsement, the "Hipster Pixie" ("Cute, politically conscious young women rally around your tousled, devil-may-care good looks"), "Publicity Stunt Gone Awry" ("Following the lead of former candidate Benjamin Vanderford, your opponent tries to stage his own beheading -- only his hand slips"), and, of course, the card of race. This is frickin' brilliant (and we're not just saying that because we're all puffed up by our Dog Bites shoutout either). The next SFist staff meeting is going to feature a round or three of Sup-ee-Oh!, oh yes it will. It doesn't really matter what the rest of the paper has, though Savage Love notes that it's entirely possible you could get gout from drinking urine.
And next up, the Guardian! We should just say that while we sometimes like to poke gentle fun at the Guardian in this column, we kid because we love! Don't come after us, Bruce! We promise to support public power! ("Fury of BBB" is a powerful attack card in the Weekly's Sup-ee-Oh!, we'd like to point out.) On that note, we humbly offer you a link to celebutante hitting-the-big-time Hooray for Anything's Wank of the Week best paragraph of the Guardian! (H4A went with a movie review, even after our impassioned lobbying for the Orson Welles of Manitoba piece.) And, as promised by the Weekly, we'll renew our gmail invite contest for those of you who find a better quote and post it in the comments. (If you really want a gmail invite, though, we have an easier contest a few postings below.)
Onto the summaries! The Guardian endorses Mirkarimi (1), Haaland (2), and Feldstein (3) in District 5. Is it just us, or does Haaland seem to be coming in a solid 2nd choice endorsement for every single city political action group? We'll make you a bet that Haaland ends up winning in the ranked-choice-voting game. The Guardian also endorses Kerry, McGoldrich (Dist. 1), Pascal over Alioto-Pier (Dist. 2), Peskin (Dist. 3), Linnebach (1) and Reifsteck (2) for Dist. 7 (and begs you not to vote for Corrales, a captain in the Mission District SFPD office who was briefly a defendant in the fajitagate mess), Ammiano and then Saucedo for Dist. 9, and Sandoval in the 11th. Check out the rest of the Bay Guardian's SF endorsements online (you should really see all the propositions we have to vote on too, yikes). Kimberly Chun revives her excellent thumbnail listings (scroll down) of upcoming shows -- we missed that column on sfgate very, very much and are glad to see it's back! Also, can we just also say, we love the Sonic Reducer logo? If SFist ever gets a tattoo, that's what it's going to be. (It's unlikely that SFist is ever going to get a tattoo, though. SFist hates pain.)
Our sources fell through this week on the Metro -- sorry. But we did secure an East Bay Express, which has an excellent cover article on how KMEL drove the new hip hop station, Power 92.7 (which replaced the dance station that was driven out by KMEL's sister station WILD 94.9) off the air. Radio politics are messed up -- and we're hoping this isn't the end of locally-focused hip hop radio on the FM dial. (While we're at it, we'd also like to say that we'd love it if Z95.7 and top 40 radio came back to the Bay Area too. Where else are we going to hear Britney's new version of My Prerogative?)
So who's the pick of the week? You know, all is forgiven for everyone's mediocre showings last week -- we were pretty pleased with all our weekly media's newest offerings this week. A little local politics and a little music, that's all we want. You really should play a round of Sup-ee-Oh, though, at a bare minimum.