Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests and some indulgent knee-bouncing as his hard-working daddy mixed drinks on a bar that might just very well be the very same desk at which he pens his blistering e-missives to Mayor (and constituent?) Gavin Newsom.

Last Friday, Chris Daly's office hosted an opening party for their ongoing art exhibition of Mark Ellinger's photographs of Tenderloin and SoMA SROs. (The picture at the right is "Forgotten," from the exhibition.) Of course we stopped by -- dragging SFist Eve along with us!

As we arrived, those in the know informed us that we had just missed Daly throwing Luke Thomas from the Sentinel out of the party -- but the bouncer/bartender/host seemed in a remarkably good mood when we saw him, greeting constituents and mixing up martinis and bourbon-based drinks like a pro. And extra style points for the keg in the corner -- when we saw it, we noticed ourselves reflexively crouching down into our trademark pre-headstand stance. Man, it's been how long since college?

A framed copy of the SF Weekly's "Worst Local Politician" award, a list of the books on Daly's shelf, and action photos of District 6's finest mixing a drink to order, after the jump!

Picture by Mark Ellinger. The show is ongoing in Daly's office through this month in City Hall Room 273.

Ellinger's work is really stunning, as you can see in his photoblog -- and we particularly liked the colorful matting he selected for each individual photograph. He gave what was reported to us as being a very moving speech about his work, after Daly put on his aggressively-policy tone of voice about the need for mailboxes in SROs, but honestly, we were so obsessed with looking at the books on Daly's bookshelf that by the time we noticed that the speech had begun, the room was packed and the door separating us from them had been discreetly shut so our "ohmiGAWD, he has a copy of 'Introduction to Film Arts'!!!!!!" would be somewhat muffled. Sorry.

Our feelings were only a little bit hurt when we saw that Chris has his "Worst Local Politician" award from the SF Weekly framed and up on his door, but nothing up from us. You could always hit the "printer-friendly version" button and put one of our articles in a frame too, you know! We were somewhat mollified when we saw our favorite judy b., stopping by on her way to the Julian Barnes reading at Clean Well-Lighted.

Big ups to the caterers at this event -- the samosas and spring rolls were yum.

Here's a random (and incomplete) listing of books on Daly's shelf:

• the aforementioned Film Arts Art: An Introduction
  
• God's Bits of Wood
  
• Sisterhood Is Powerful (a vintage edition)
  
• Imagineering Atlanta
  
• Soviet Military Policy
  
• American Political Thought
  

As SFist Eve said, "Do you think these are just his textbooks from college?" Hey Chris -- we have a copy of "Vector Calculus" we can lend you if you want!

And, as promised -- ladies and gentlemen, Chris Daly! Thanks, SFist Eve, for taking these, and thanks, SFMike, for suggesting that we take them in the first place! Scroll through them fast and it's just like Cocktail!

Pour....

Mix....

...and serve!

Chris, if you don't win reelection, you could always enter the World's Best Bartender competition! You'd probably be the only one mixing drinks and discussing homelessness policy!