SFist: San Francisco's Mayoral Pick Via the Old Gray Lady

Brock

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:54:06 -0800

guest 12, very funny. and how is it possible to do drag in california in 2007 and find the term "tranny" offensive. someone's drag mother wasn't doing her job.

guest

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:25:33 -0800

Brock, it's really disappointing that you would mock transgendered people.

mattymatt

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:08:15 -0800

"Hippie Hootenany" is new to me as well; but now that it's been said, it's not exactly inaccurate, is it?

guest

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:27:22 -0800

Ethel Merman (aka Mark Sargent) is not transgender--he identifies as a non-transgender man, who is a musician/performer. I know him personally, and I've worked with him many times. Lady Champerz

cat

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:20:26 -0800

did anyone notice how there were two other articles at the same time as this one in major national publications (bloomberg and newsweek) about the sf mayor/mayor's race?? it's like they were all part of the same push for coverage... & no word yet from the new york times about the LTE...

guest

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:27:08 -0800

Lazy journo didn't have enough context to question the propaganda that Newsom polls as strongly as claimed and foolishly reports the inflated number. The Times' SF scribes used to be better; this one didn't even honor their own article history..."hippie hootenany," where'd that come from, the "be-in" archive? Cat's right, it would have taken but a simple phrase from their coverage of 03's magic to get the Matt G. characterization properly differentiated. Hopefully they'll get more chances soon to make up for this lapse... --SocialJustice

mariconsoy

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:38:34 -0800

Ethel Mermann- thanks I though it was Joan Crawford after her weight watchers diet failed. I particularly like that she is showing hard nipples. Must be a reaction to Gav. Dude, you have GOT TO GET A NEW SUIT! The one you keep wearing is getting shiny. BTW for those who don't know. NYT online is great. They have a feature that allows you to double click on any word. That links you in a new window to a dictionary and the meaning of the word you clicked on. Major great.

cat

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:01:38 -0800

thx. i already did. we shall see if they run it...

haplito

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:49:43 -0800

#3, you should write a letter to the editor re: that article.

Jeremy_notSFist

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:59:58 -0800

Hippie hootenanny? What the? Nicknamed by whom? Out of touch New York Times reporters? Eric Jaye? Yeah, the Progressive Convention sure was wacky and zany. Man, those 15 elected officials (mostly Democrats) were far out. When Public Defender Adachi went off on that jam about California's recidivism rate, and then Sheriff Hennessey followed up with the same riff, that was epic. Pathetic. I expect better from the New York Times than another cliché "look at those wacky San Franciscans" article.

cat

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:46:59 -0800

i found the tone and content of the piece to be pretty disappointing. i mean, i met the writer once - very nice guy - but in the article he reduces everything in sf politics to their most trivial and comical. it's like we're being pattted on the head or something for being so amusing. well, yeah, of course we’ve got a lot of whacko political stuff going on, but he makes it sound as if there aren't real issues involved in our local elections. oh, and the thing about the progressive convention being referred to as a "hippie hootenanny"? ??!!?? is that straight from some campaign's spin? i did a web search of that phrase and a bunch of combos of sf, convention, progressive, chris daly, etc, and came up with nothing. (actually i found a reference to burning man as a "neo-hippie hootenanny" but that's the closest anything came to sf.) even more strange - altho tony hall would not be my choice for mayor, there actually is a former elected official in the race who is not mentioned once, among the colorful canidates. the article also describes what matt g. is doing today as a part-time collage artist, as if matt is just like the rest of the folks in the article, as if he doesn’t have anything else going on, as if he didn’t start a law firm, etc. even the line describing eric jaye as "not the cuckholded one" is totally unnecessary and I think too flip in tone for the nyt...

Cement Brunette

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:30:47 -0800

Hey, Ethel (or is it Ethyl?) is awesome. She's not tired at all. (In fact, I've actually heard her sing that Pink song from the earlier post.) At least she's got a live schticky kind of act and doesn't go about lipsyncing bad drag queen breath into our faces like some of the other SF drag queens. Sure, her act never changes, but who cares--it's Ethel (Ethyl?)!!! Oh, and who is the Hottie van der Hot behind Gavin in that photo. And is that a trailer back there or are they fancy port-a-(sniff, sniff)-johns?

guest

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:27:44 -0800

Nice Big Brother reference.