Day Around the Bay

Today's guest blogger? Why, it's Melissa Griffin of Sweet Melissa and SF Examiner. Melissa was kind enough to do this for us during the Labor Day holiday. Thusly: we now owe her 657832112 cocktails of gratitude.

It's all yours, Mel.

• Top 10 ways to observe Labor Day. (Hug an overpaid city employee isn't among them. [SF Weekly]

• "Opportunity" to be a watchdog on the City Grand Jury that requires long hours for a pittance and whose "findings" are used as City Hall toilet paper is having a hard time recruiting participants. Weird. Perhaps that should be the subject of their next report. [SFGate]

• Former First Lady of SF Kimmie Guilfoyle obviously has a bog ol' crush on Van Jones. (In related news, when reached for comment, current First Lady Siebel offered that "Brown Eyed Girl" is one of her favorite songs.) [SFBG]

• San Franciscans love (at least the appearance of) collaboration. This looks like a cool concept. [The Public Record]

• I love the Commonwealth Club, so I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for
  this bit of embarrassment. [SFCitizen]

• The Restroom Taskforce should sell t-shirts. And use code names. [Examiner]