Was it the Best Week Ever? Not so much. But that doesn't mean there wasn't enough good stuff to go around.

First, more problems for the Orange and Black, a franchise in the midst of a drunken-late-night-pizza-slice of a nightmare type season.

-KNBR broadcaster and occasional Examiner columnist Larry Krueger got himself into heap loads of trouble last week for comments he made concerning the men in Orange and Black. In the middle of a full-fledged rant, nothing much different than anything we've heard or read, he made a comment about being tired of seeing a bunch of "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly." Needless to say, that didn't go over well. Omar Vizquel (from Venezuela) dropped the R word-- John Rocker, Moises Alou refused to talk to ESPN about it because he was so upset, and Felipe quit his pre-game show on KNBR in protest. Krueger was suspended for a week without pay and offered to apologize, but the Giants, with Felipe leading the way, don't want his apology but want his head. All of this is complicated by the fact that KNBR is the Giants flagship station and plays all of their games. Not to mention own 1.5 percent of the Giants.

-Gawker reports that a "Found Film Festival" in New York (Found Film meaning it's made up of film found basically in trash bins) includes a film sponsored by a Brazilian Travel Board featuring a much younger Arnold Schwarzenegger and a couple of "escorts" let loose in Rio. We couldn't find much in the way of a description of the film other than several snippets describing the Governor as being "young and frisky". Frankly, none of this really surprises us nor changes our opinion of the man one way or the other. Wake us when they find footage of a "young and frisky" coked-up George W. with a couple of Texas society floozies let loose in Odessa. Now that we'd like to see.

Photo of Larry and Omar Vizquel in much happier times

-A woman from Vacaville who lost a son in Iraq is hanging out in front of George Bush's Crawford Ranch to protest the war and refuses to leave until she can have a meeting with the President to ask him why her son died. The notoriously hard-working President, in the midst of a five-week vacation, has so far refused to see her but has sent several flacks to meet with her instead. Why does this woman hate America?

-Gavin announced some huge initiative to bring in lots of low-cost housing into the city. The plan calls for having 15,000 new housing units by 2010, a third at below-market rate. How is Gavin going to do this? By streamlining bureaucracy, of course. It's just that easy, especially when you're one of the reasons for the bureucratic mess. The plan, however, drew skepticism and outright derision from most of the people involved in it. Developers laughed at the goal because they know nothing's ever that easy while Chris Daly, one of the people largely responsible for making it sure it's never that easy, derided it for political grand-standing. On his blog, Daly attacked the Gavster and pointed out that over the past year, he's brokered several deals involving housing, all of which Gavin did nothing to help out. Tenant Activists attacked the plan because too much of the housing would go to evil Yuppie Scum while, Joe O’D and the Residential Building Association used the plan to attack Gavin on his handling of Joe's pet department, the Planning and Building Inspection. So that went over well.

And now, to catch you up on a few things we wrote about earlier:

-After a few days of negotiations, a deal was made on the possible plan of the Fairmont turning several of their rooms into high priced condos. Instead of an out-right plan, there will be an eighteen month moratorium on an out-right plan in which an economic study will be, well, put together and studied. We love political decisions that basically come down to deciding to make a decision later.

-Chris Daly's plan on how to divy the booty he got from the developers of the Rincon project passed the Board of Supes by a 9-2 vote. "We should think as one city, not as eleven districts" said Jake McGoldrick in a fiery speech in which he tried to figure out way of getting some of that money to his district. Some say the money is much needed and forward thinking for a district about to go under major changes while others say it's extortion and just a way to build a political machine.