..hey, there's a coupon for $2 off any purchase at Amoeba on the back page of the New Times publications!
Whoa, the Weekly's kind of thin this week! What is this, Mischa Barton's paper? Embracing recursivity, the Infiltrator infiltrates an impersonator convention. PUNI makes a Newsom dyslexia joke! Gasp, but also giggle! (We hope he doesn't get sanctioned by the Board of Supes again for it.) Cover article: a Christian film studio. Social Grace tells a person that no, you cannot ask your rich friend to buy you a house. An article about those guys who run that pirate indie radio station (Pirate Cat Radio, 87.9 FM). A woman writes in to Savage Love to complain about discrimination by the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic because of her possible "medical fetish." (Dan blames the victim.)
The EBX! Oh, hooray! Bottom Feeder's girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal! Harshly, her letter to the editor ("yes") is published with the caption: "six to ten years of bliss." People opposing a Walgreens in East Oakland as gentrification. Cover article: organic farmers who find the federal organic designations too processed. (Actually, SFist Jackson is going to love this piece – here's the link). Always good to see that indie rock aesthetic in other subcultures as well. Hey, Oakland's American Idol LaToya is singing at the Oakland Celebrates the Dream MLK festival, and there's a riotgrrl recorder quintet. And the music columnist lists words he resolves no longer to use in 2005 .("Beatles-esque," "drops" for the release date of hip-hop albums, too many hyphens, and "angular.")
The Guardian and the weekly of the week after the jump.
The Guardian, continuing to ignore our existence for yet another week (sigh). Also, no $2 off coupon for Amoeba. A letter from a woman who wants to emphasize that Russian Hill is not the Marina. The new Bay Bridge plans are not going to be biker-friendly. Burning Man is run by women. Cover article: Tim Redmond awards the "Offies," short for "f*** offies" about political things that got his goat. He notes that the woman who used to write these with him died earlier this year and apologizes for them being less funny. Well, it's not so much that they're not funny and more that they're kind of obvious (the governator, Bush's performance in the debates, people pie-ing Ann Coulter). Paul Reidinger thinks it's time for starches to make a comeback. Dan Leone breaks into his old house to watch free cable. And Kim Chun steps in vomit not once but twice over New Year's Eve.
Weekly of the week: well, let's be honest -- not every week can be the brilliance that was "2004: Year of Mayoral Triumph." But that said, we'll give our prestigious award to the East Bay Express this week. Congratulations, Bottom Feeder!
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can we just talk about how weird it is that the puni cartoon suggested that gavin and matt move in together, and appeared on the VERY SAME DAY that gavin annouced ... er ... a rather sudden shift in his living situation? i think that's spooky. spoooooooky! that dan seigler cartoonist guy's starting to creep me out.
If MattyG didn't have a taste for women fifteen years his junior, I'd give it some weight. But when I read in the Chron today that the marital troubles were "an open secret," I was like, "yeah, and that's the only one."