April 22, 2007
Swells By The Numbers
Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 47. (We almost counted the mannequin at your right!)
Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 3.
Minority count: 2 (4.2%).
Hats, capes, tiaras: 5, 0, 0.
Getty v. Traina: 1-2 (Gavin for Team G and Dede for Team T).
Amount of money it'll cost you to attend the SF International Poetry Festival this summer: 0! Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, a Marxist, says poetry is for everyone.
Number of inches of newsprint separating the picture of Denise Hale from the pictures of her estranged stepdaughter Linda Hale Bucklin, whose tell-all book she called "crap" last week.: 11.5. You kind of expect Denise Hale to extend a hand straight up from the bottom of the page to attack Ms. Hale Bucklin.
Number of Chronicle local politics writers who are Linda Hale Bucklin's godsons: 1 (Charlie Goodyear -- the one Chris Daly called a hack!)
Number of copies of Linda Hale Bucklin's book snapped up by one guest at the book release party: 50. Either that person really hates Denise Hale, or really loves Denise Hale and is trying to get all the books off the shelves.
Number of Nob Hill Gazette-designated most-eligible singles seen: 14. (including a "European widower," a "tennis-playing dentist," a "nutrition MD," and a man who "likes women and the outdoors -- preferably together." Rrowr!)
Number of times Nancy Pelosi was seen wearing her Hermes scarf in the Middle East: 3.
Number of flower-print men's suits pictured: 1.
Picture of the Nob Hill Gazette publisher by Ray "Scotty" Morris for the Chron.
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That mannequin looks like Jen Siebel, but less frozen faced and with a better personality.
Rita! Elaine! MattyMatt & Jon! Quick Write a Biography about your life...feel free to use whatever prose you like make it sound believable and be sure show you are related to someone that was in San Francisco in the 70's ( I am sure there is a list somewhere with really good names to use )
Unfortantly, you can't use any of these titles
"Oh, I did that too!"
or the ever so
"I was bad, but I could've been badder"
and hopefully you will not use mine
"Say What? Oh, I am That Chick, who are you again?"
As a former resident of Pacific Heights for five years I have a minimum high regard for my former neighbor Nancy Pelosi. As a Democratic congressional counsel for 17 years it is my view that poor Nancy should be removed from office for violating both the Constituion and Jefferson'Manual (which is still in effect in the House of Representatives Manual of Rules. See www.Jzeifman.com
I'm the person who bought 50 copies of Mrs. Bucklin's book (actually, I bought 100), and it certainly wasn't to get the book off the shelves because I am so fond of Denise - au contraire. I have friends in the East who were clamoring for copies and couldn't find them, friends in Europe who couldn't wait to get their hands on copies, etc. Mrs. Bucklin has put together a beautifully written and very moving account of her life with her father; his mistress and subsequntly second wife, Denise, is peripheral to the story.