We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. The saga continues! Robert Haaland snipes in the letters column about Matt Gonzalez's snipe in the letters column the week before, about an op-ed by Harvey Milk Club prez Greg Shaw that ran two weeks back. Plus, the world's most excellent article about infighting in the San Francisco left -- someone, please option this for TV! It's totally next season's Lost! They could call it Left! This week's op-ed is by an activist in the leather community about joining the SF People's Organization; we look forward to next week's angry response in the letters to the editor! It doesn't really matter what else is in the paper.
The Weekly: Matt Smith on bikes. Dog Bites says the SFIFF is badly run, and Ray Ratto uses the prefix "crypto" too often. Cover article: Ostensibly about a bad-boy photographer, but okay, okay, we only looked at the pictures of naked people, is that so wrong? Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini. (Why isn't her last name something "-sdottir"?) And Savage Love: foot fetishist, panty fetishist, and STDs.
The EBX and the weekly of the week, beyond the expandotron.
The East Bay Express. We didn't manage to pick a hard copy up this week, so we're going solely off the website. Bottom Feeder: The Wayans Brothers want to build a theme park in Oakland!! Whoo! Legal woes facing East Bay radical animal-rights groups. John Yoo the torturer is blowing up all over! Yikes -- the "vampire rapist" is out of jail and living at the Oakland Marriott. Cover article: Summer! And I Like Eating goes to Hooters (fried foods).
Weekly of the week: We're giving it to the EBX -- Hooters, vampire rapist, and a Wayans theme park! The answer is clear. But we're still writing up a TV pilot pitch for "Left" too -- we'll remember you all when we're rich and famous and perched in the prestigious Thursday at 8 p.m. time slot!