So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt.

Now this would be nothing except the video of it, in a very shaky form, appeared on their web site and thus started a blog war. Alex and Maggie said it was all done to make a statement about "spleen-spewing blogs driven by pure jealousy." In response, Dean said

"the whole mess smacks of a East Coast-West Coast Hip Hop rivalry resurrected between new Death Row Blogger, ‘2Smac’ Gavin Sucks.com and the ‘Notorious P.I.G.’ Gavin Newsom."

And since us bloggers are the narcissistic sort, the affair was written about by Left In SF's Sasha who called the whole thing "surreal" and brought out his inner-film critic to add that "they totally blew the money shot, so there’s only a vertigo-inducing flailing camera rather than actual footage of Dean getting doused." Over on Calitics, Blogswarm gives a little history lesson on other blogger smack-downs and said the whole thing was the "most brazen link whoring publicity stunt I've ever seen online."

Hmm... this was a publicity stunt? No, couldn't be.

As for us, who witnessed the whole thing (you'll see us in the background, looking confused) we would also describe it as surreal and sort of performance art-y. But also way too cold of a night to pour alcohol on somebody.