After a break of a few weeks, Gavin Watch is back with a launch party and a spiffy new web site. They already have some great content up already, mainly a video of Gavin at Fake Question Time II trying to reach an audience of mainly African Americans who live in the Bayview by trying to "talk black." Thankfully, the words " fo' shizzle my nizzle" were not spoken, but, well, check it out.

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom fields reporters' questions after kicking off the city's new 311 call service. The logo etched in the glass wall at left was designed with free assitance from the marketing department of Yahoo!

The city of San Francisco officially kicked off its new 311 telephone service today. That means that you can simply dial these three digits (or 415-701-2311 if you are calling from a non-415 area code) for all non-emergency City and County of San Francisco governmental matters. The details. Or, as they say in the 213: "Burning building? Call 9-1-1. Burning Question? Call 3-1-1." Did the mayor actually talk to people calling in with questions about MUNI? Find out after the jump.

(Thanks for the tip, GavinWatch! We can't wait for your launch party tomorrow.) The always vigilant GW tipped us off to a heroic, anonymous San Franciscan who puts a question to Gavin about NextMuni. It's obvious that the mayor's knowledge of the system is gathered exclusively from press releases, rather than actual contact with the computer machine; but still, it's nice to hear him acknowledge that it exists and works great and always has. What's not so nice is how he says it's going to take another THREE YEARS to get it in place -- of course, that contradicts the MTA's own promises. And hey, DC got their system up and running in six months. But patience is a virtue, right? Thanks for being so virtuous, Gav.

To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm and rational point about the meeting by first shouting at Gavin and then approaching him while Gavin filibustered. We'll let SFist Elaine describe the scene. If you want more eyewitness accounts, Fog City has a recap as well as official Editor in Emeritus, Jackson West. ABC 7 has a video of the scene

Special thanks to Jerry Jarvis, Erika McDonald, and Eric Lawson for sending in these photos.

Coming up, more photos and another eyewitness account.

The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON!

Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog City Journal's take on Fake Question Time.

Gavin Newsom was all raspy voice and bulletproof hair last night for the third Fake Question Time at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. Despite somebody's command to "Go back to Nob Hill!" Gavin asserted "I'm not going away." He's used that phrase a couple times now. Is that your campaign slogan, homie? We hope not, because you're not exactly the underdog. It's almost April and you still don't have an opponent.

Gavin spent twenty minutes outlining the Health Access Plan, which promises to cover the majority of the 82,000 San Franciscans living without healthcare. This universal health care plan will cost $200 million a year, and begins on July 1st. Gavin and Public Health Director Mitch Katz discussed the lawsuit filed by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, which received hisses and boos. By the end of the night, Gavin read through/pretended to answer about 60 questions from the audience.

Most of the dialogue during the meeting happened between and Katz and Gavin. Like the second meeting in the Bayview, Gavin read questions off the cards, and also took Q&A's from the audience. Our favorite talk-show moment occured after Gavin asked the uninsured members of the audience to raise their hands. He asked one young woman how she lives without healthcare and she replied, "I just try not to get sick."

More of our Fake Question Time re-cap, after the jump!

Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.

We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our government more effective, our economy stronger, our city more tolerant, and our lives a little easier." And what, pray tell, is that? Listening.

So Gavin wants to hear from you, his peeps, and hear what you have to say. To help everyone in their kvetching, he's set up a "pet peeves" section of his spiffy blog so people can send in their pet peeves. He might even come by and interview you! Or maybe he'll just write up a bunch of phony peeves and read them off.

So fire away and give Gavin your own pet San Francisco peeves.

Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple halter dress she wears in this video is pretty cute, too.

However, just because we're over it doesn't mean we're not secretly putting together a special Fake Question Time ensemble in the hopes of running into some chick dating some dude (not to be confused with esteemed SFist reader That Chick), that will go unnamed because we’re already going to hell for saying she looked old.

Aside from being politically aware citizens and whatnot, we want to go to Fake Question Time (fashionably late, of course) on Monday, March 26th at 6pm at the Cesar Chavez Elementary School to see what all the fuss is about. We'd also love to take any questions from political junkies unable to attend. Send us any questions you'd like to ask Gavin about health care. Remember, kids, there are no stupid questions, just roundabout answers that have nothing to do with the original question.

Hopefully, we'll have enough SFist readers in attendance snapping photos and taking notes with us if we leave anything out because of our ADD. We're not very good at sitting through meetings. Team Gavin better make this exciting enough for us to leave downtown. And it better not cut into the I Love New York season finale.

Omg, we might even be able to meet Dan Noyes. We have a BlackBerry, too, Dan. Let's be BB Messenger friends!

PS: In our defense, we’re only 24 and think everybody looks old, including us. Hell, in about eight months we’ll be a quarter-century old. We’re already crying about it.

Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar Chavez Elementary School on Monday the 26th at 6 p.m. to discuss health care with the residents of District 9. (825 Shotwell (between South Van Ness and Folsom, cross street 22nd). Man, and we were hoping to see Jennifer Siebel again.

Is anyone going to be able to make this on such short notice? Well, if you do, wanna cover it for SFist? Send your pictures and write-ups to editor-at-sfist.com and SFist Jon will pick out the choicest morsels for everyone to see! Whether you're pro-Newsom, pro-Proposition I, pro-stirring stuff up, or just pro-writing questions down on index cards, we're looking forward to hearing your reports from the town hall. (And this correspondent will definitely be reading what you have to say from an overpriced Internet cafe in some faraway foreign land!)

Picture of Gavin from the Second Fake Question Time.

Jennifer "Bumble Bee" Siebel posing with her The Trouble With Romance director Gene Rhee (center) and co-star Emily Liu (right). Looks like it's time for Jen Bunny to get a facial; her skin looks old and tired, just like her haircut. Maybe Jen and Peter "Absolutely Not" Ragone can book an appointment together?

Picture courtesy of one of our fabulous readers. Luv and Houndstooth!

One of the three staff members of the Examiner must have read our post about San Francisco community courts because yesterday they had a story which described the difference between the community courts that have already been set up and the community courts Gavin is trying to implement.

The one Gavin wants to setup is an actual sort of a mini-court in which there's a DA, prosecutor, and judge and is designed to have a verdict rendered within 24 hours. The one's that have already been set up is kind of similar but made up of people from the community who volunteer to sit on the court. Instead of rendering verdicts, the court does something very San Francisco instead, mainly discuss what the person's "crime" does to the community and then make some sort of decision on what to do. We see a lot of "not that we want to make a judgment on your pissing on the street because that would be imposing our values on your values…" or "you can go into community service if you want, but we feel that it's up to you" type discussions. These community courts, however, aren't known for working that well, as things tend to drag on.

So which community court does Gavin want to do? Both. The plan is to continue with both community courts because, well, because...because...we'll we don't know. Some say that running both community courts are basically redundant and a waste of taxpayer’s money, but what do some people know? Ross Mirkarimi says he's not opposed to doing both courts, but that he wishes more resources were put in the community courts. As for Jennifer Friedenbach of the Coalition on Homelessness, she says piss away, what do I care?

Late word: What? Gavin Newsom lied to us! At the last Fake Question Time, Gavin clearly told us that the next "town hall meeting" would be in April and address the issue of crime in District 5. So color us surprised when we start hearing word on Monday that Third Fake Question Time is going to be next Monday, March 26, at Cesar Chavez Elementary in District 9 on health care. (note: there's a press release about it up now on the SFGov.org website dated 3/15, but it wasn't there when we first heard this rumor yesterday afternoon, which was 3/20.)

But... but... but... Gavin told us the Fake Question Times were going to be during weekends, and that he wanted everyone to know about them so we could all go and be part of the process! Next, you're going to tell us he's not really single. You're killing us here, Gavin! (Plus -- we're so mad -- we can't make it that day. Readers, please go with cameras and send us pictures and tales!)

Postponed party: So. Where can we go complain about this Fake Question Time trickery?? Well, shoot. The GavinWatch relaunch party originally set for this Thursday's been postponed due to the city shutting down their Balazo Gallery venue. Will Gavin's people stop at nothing to shut down GavinWatch???? Was it not enough to hack their site??? (If this is all a ploy to build up buzz for the next GavinWatch YouTube clips, guys, it's working!)

--And cancelled appearance! We have it on good authority that Jennifer Siebel did not appear at the Friday screening of her movie at the SFIAAFF, claiming that she suddenly got "stuck" in New York and couldn't make it. We're sure that had nothing to do with last week's Siebel blogging brouhaha. However, she did make it to Monday night's screening, without Gavin. Nobody in the audience had the nerve to ask her any questions about him at the Q&A.

Picture of Gavin at the 2007 CityBeat Luncheon by Orange Exposure from our Flickr stream (Be cool like Orange Exposure and tag your pictures SFist too! They have some awesome pictures well worth checking out.)

This weekend, both the Chron and the Ex had big stories about Gavin's community court idea. Oh, wonky, earnest Gavin, how we missed you. Anyways, the thing about both stories is that we actually have community courts already set up. In fact, we've been praised for our community court program. So, then, why all the hullabaloo? And what is the proverbial what because as we could all attest, it's not like they appear to be making a difference?

For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At the court will be a public defender and a district attorney as well as volunteers from the community to try the case and a social worker offering help to those who ask for help. If found guilty, the court will assess whether the person will have to do community service or pay a fine. Usually, those social services will mirror the crime, so if somebody does graffiti, they'll go graffiti cleaning. Or if they litter, they clean up litter. We're not sure what'll happen if they get caught pissing on the street and we're not sure we want to know.

This is different from our (other) current policy, which is essentially nothing. Actually, those offered citations have to show up in traffic court within 45 days but nobody shows up, no penalties are assessed, and cops don't hand anything out anyways because they don't think it's worth the hassle.

The community court idea is all the rage these days in city management and is found in around thirty cities throughout the country. It was popularized by Rudy Guiliani who's using his cred as proto-fascist Mayor to appeal to the proto-fascist base of the Republican Party. It does appear to work in cities where it's used, except for apparently here.

Negatives? Well, it "criminalizes" the homeless and as commenters have pointed out, quality of life issues might not be in the cities best interests as we have other crime related issues to worry about (others would argue the opposite). Also, as Beyond Chron points out, the program is set up to do something about serial inebriates and proposed by a serial inebriate and that's hypocrisy so we shouldn't do anything about it.

As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to be assessed these days!

So we start off with local progressive Internet guerrillas GavinWatch. Welcome back! After their mysterious disappearance, they've changed all their old passwords, reuploaded all their old clips -- and they're ready to start watching Gavin Newsom again! (GavinWatch -- are you behind these Newsom BETRAY stickers popping up all over town?) They're having their grand reopening party this Thursday at the Balazo Gallery on 18th and Mish, which promises to be filled with their usual anti-Newsom political action hilarity. Will we find out who exactly GavinWatch is at the party? Will folks from Team Newsom Reelection try to crash? We'll just have to wait and see.

But wait! That's not the only ____Watch in town. Pat Murphy at the Sentinel's just launched his own blogspot Watch -- for (guess who): his frenemy Chris Daly! Alas, there's no exciting GavinWatch-style YouTube clips or animated .gif graphics on Dalywatch.blogspot.com yet (just a long story about the latest in Daly's attempts to launch an investigation against Murphy for ethics violations), but we're sure all you anti-Dalys will be happy to volunteer your digital cameras and Java skills to Pat Murphy's cause. As Murphy says on the site, "Watch the man with care, and render your judgment here."

And finally -- Chronicle Watch! Dude, Chris Daly has still not taken down his campaign sign from the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness. We mean it, Chris, we're gonna email the big Watchers in town now! (Can someone please lend Chris Daly a stepladder to take that sign down?)

Picture of BETRAY sticker from our Flickr stream (tag 'em SFist) by Steve Rhodes; we took the picture of the Daly 06 sign at Mission and South Van Ness.

Poor Gavin. He goes on a little trip back east and his girlfriend posts on some blog and creates a major ruckus. Then everywhere he goes, tourist officials say bad things about his city. Like there's too much panhandling and prostitutes. Not to mention dirty. And expensive. Oh, and our convention facilities are not so hot but who cares about that?

So Gavin is proposing setting up community courts to help do something about those "quality of life" things. The problem being is that nothing is really done about people pissing in the streets or drunk in the streets (and Happy St. Paddy's Day too!) or offering to do all sorts of nasty things for $10. The police issue citations but nobody really faces any penalty for them.

It's looking like "quality of life" is going to be the big thing in the 2007 election, the one between Gavin and, ummm, well, umm, who knows. We sympathize with Gavin too because everytime we go home, we always hear gruff about the city. Like we're all a bunch of hippies or we beat up people for singing the National Anthem. After awhile, we just want to snap back and say "well, yeah, we're prettier than your city" or "yeah, like you have burritos." Still, it's one thing for us to do all the kvetching about the city, another for everyone else too. So, to all ya haters out there, we're so much prettier than you are.

Yes, lucky readers, that's right: Jennifer Siebel's movie The Trouble With Romance is screening in San Francisco for the SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival. And who better to review the press screener we received, than our special guest correspondent, and Chronicle Culture Blog Gavin Watcher..... Beth Spotswood!!!!

The infamous SFist Rita took time away from her remote cave lair and evil blogging minions to hook me up with an advance copy of The Trouble with Romance, starring none other than SFist commenter herself, Jennifer Siebel.

Oh my god. Swiss Miss: Thespian.

I was given strict orders to review Jen's performance only, and while I still don't really understand why, I'm sticking to the rules. Don't mess with Rita. She'll make fun of your outfits. [We were told not to spoil the fine plot secrets of this movie for the viewing public! That's all! --r.]

I popped in that DVD, took a Newsom-esque swig of Chardonnay and settled in to see that girl's girl act her little heart out. Here's what I have to report:

After the jump: Jennifer Siebel as a psychotic and erratic girlfriend. We're sure it's all acting, people! The movie screens tonight at 9 p.m. and Monday evening at 7:30 as part of the SFIAAFF.

Look at you guys go on that Jennifer Siebel thread! 402 comments as we finalize this post, and still going strong. Can you guys see if you can get the count up to 414? We'd then have the highest comment count Gothamist-network wide. We're coming for you, most-popular "First Thoughts on The Matrix Reloaded" post!

In all seriousness, thank you guys for keeping the conversation in the comments relatively civil (snarky, but civil -- our favorite!). We always knew our readers and commenters were the best and this just goes to prove that. Look. we even made you guys a t-shirt!

A quick recap for those of you just tuning in: Our first post ("Not a Girl's Kind of Girl"), Jennifer Siebel's comment in response, all the comments in response to Jennifer Siebel, our next post ("Jennifer Siebel Online"), its comments, and yesterday's post ("The Girl Code"), and its comments. Oh, and here's the comment widely believed to be by Jennifer Siebel's PR agent friend.

So, for today's Siebel post-flogging, we thought we'd feature some of the comments we've found the most entertaining. Lots to choose from! (and we're not including all of the ones that made us snicker, just to encourage you to read the whole thread.)

Best Comment So Far: "Quick, quick! Somebody save meeeeeeeee! --a bee in a pool." Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

An explanation of the bee thing, and the other comments that jumped out at us in a brief scroll through all the action, after the jump!

We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead.

As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said: "Jesus, get over yourselves...you're not even the poor man's TomKat!"

Whatev, we can't complain. Your inability to comprehend any humor or irony has given us the opportunity to blog about something we love even more than wonks or wonky-eyed socialites: ourselves. Duh. It's like being given a second MySpace page or something.

To clarify: we never said you needed a stylist, Jennifer. One of our readers commented that you did. We don't think you "dress poorly" -- just boring. It's a matter of personal taste. You don't see Lindsay Lohan writing comments on Perez or Gofugyourself every time they write something negative about her (though we wish she did - her frenzied BlackBerry emails are epic).

Before we get into the Jennifer Siebel links of the day, we'd like to put a theory out there. Remember Chron writer C.W. Nevius's theory that men were upset about Newsom's behavior with Ruby Rippey-Tourk because it violated the man code? (which is, in short, don't mess around with a friend's woman.)

Well, we'd like to put forward the thought that one of the reasons why people are so angry with Ms. Siebel over her comments about her romantic rival because she violated the girl code. There are many, many manifestations of the girl code, but we'll summarize it as "always back the females." So -- if you slag another woman, or if you make excuses for a cheating male, all bets are off. C.W. Nevius, feel free to borrow this idea and make it into a post of your own!

Okay, onto the links.

SFist summary: First post from Monday, Jennifer Siebel's comment, all the comments in response, and yesterday's reactions.

--Matier and Ross report on the reaction to Siebel's comments at the HQs of both Team Rippey-Tourk and Team Newsom, and quote Eric Jaye aspirationally opining that "I think the rest of San Francisco is treating it the way people on the inside are treating it -- we're tired of hearing about it." Rippey-Tourk's rep says of Siebel, "Apparently she is just visiting this planet."

--Steven Jones at the Guardian writes a blistering piece about this latest news, in the context of the various failings of the Newsom administration -- while his partner Alix Rosenthal reposts her SFist comment on the letters page of the Chron.

After the jump: Reader blog links, a so-good-it's-freaking-us-out animated .gif, and -- we have it on good authority that we might appear in the Beth Spotswood Culture Blog column coming out later today up now! We hope we don't get edited out!

It's our de rigueur day-after-the-scandal post, where we compile all the links we can find about the thing we were all talking about yesterday and turn it into a post for the next day!

For those of you just tuning in -- here's the link to our original story, and here's a link to Jennifer Siebel's infamous comment (the one that the Chron has chosen not to print).

So before we get started, we just want to correct something in the record -- while we did make some light fun of Jennifer Siebel's houndstooth coat at Second Fake Question Time, we think Ms. Siegel is actually referring to a post by Fashion Correspondent SFist Elaine when she said in her comment that this correspondent shouldn't make fun of her clothes because she can't afford a nicer jacket. SFist Elaine, meanwhile, is looking for a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress on sale too.

Okay, back to the links. So hey, we made it on the front page of the Chronicle! But... for mayoral blog indiscretions again? It's like we only do one thing around here or something. Hey, we post about lots of other non-politics topics around here too, you know -- we're covering the Asian-American Film Festival this week! Stay tuned for that! Also -- check out the ChronBlog coverage if you want more comment-o-mania besides what we've got over here.

--Meanwhile, before chaos broke out, Jennifer posted a link to her commentary at SFLuxe. And hey, SFLuxe called us non-stylish! Ha! Guilty as charged! (Though again, please note that we never personally said Siebel needed a stylist -- and SFist Elaine is super cute.)

Links around the San Francisco blogosphere after the jump. Also -- the return of GavinWatch!

Picture of Jennifer Siebel with Samantha Daniels (left) and Daphne Zuniga (right).

Jennifer Siebel curiously covering her left hand with a non-engagement ring. Hmmm....

PS: We think it's, like, totally awesome that Jennifer buys Diane von Furstenberg wrap dresses on sale. Struggling bloggers can't afford designer dresses, either.

Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.

Oh, so Jennifer Siebel is that kind of girl: the kind that doesn't like other girls. People are abuzz about the comments that Gavin Newsom's current companion made in what was otherwise a kind of fluffy throwaway interview in the Sunday Style section of the Chronicle -- where she lashed out at people criticizing her man's behavior with the wife of his campaign aide by saying, "the woman is the culprit.." Oh, nice.

Here's the full quote from the article:

"I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal ... the woman is the culprit. Alex Tourk is a nice man and it saddens me that his wife did that to him.

Oh, poor victimized Gavin, helplessly seduced by a woman suffering from a potentially-deadly substance abuse problem and whose paychecks he signed! And sweet, sweet (and exhausted-toned) Jennifer, so exhaustedly willing to forgive her publicity magnet because, you know, boys will be boys and other women: they're the competition.

Wow, we sure do love it when women stand up for each other. Hope Jennifer's never going to need the support of a girlfriend if things go south for her and Gavin.

Picture of Robin Morgan's Sisterhood is Powerful, which is out of print, so the only picture we could find was from a sale on eBay.

It's a real picture!!!!! Or so says the Bay Guardian, of this fabulous photograph of Mayor Gavin Newsom posing in what looks like a pink kimono ceremonial Korean hanbok with the man he's successfully gotten a restraining order against, the obsessed Han Shin. Man, we can't even get Gavin to answer our question at the First Fake Question Time, but he'll just let anyone come up to him and give him clothes to wear???

You may recall that the Guardian ran the picture in this week's issue of their alternative-weekly paper, saying they'd gotten it from a good source who said the picture was from Shin himself, but leaving open the question of whether it had been Photoshopped. One of our readers then wrote us with an analysis of why he/she thought it was a cut-and-paste job, citing in particular the odd lighting on Newsom's face as the key piece of evidence. A lively debate then followed.

Well, the Guardian is now saying they've spoken with a person who claims to be the person who took the picture for Han Shin. The Guardian says that the person "has a history in local politics and no reason to make it up." According to that source, they were all chilling at the Bevan Dufty campaign kickoff party, and Shin presented the kimono hanbok to Dufty. Dufty tried it on, and then Shin put it on Newsom and asked someone to take a picture of the two of them together. The person who called the Guardian claims to be the someone who took the picture.

The source claims there were a lot of light sources at the party and also says the camera was not high-quality, which may explain the weird lighting in the picture. Photoshop experts, your response?

Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy, frat boy roots by popping his collar. (FYI Gavin: Popping your collar is so 2004.)

Charlotte Schultz looks elated to see Gavin without his signature blue tie. We wish he didn't wear a green tie with a blue shirt, but we'll take whatever we can get at this point.

Too bad Big G will be sober for St. Patrick's Day next weekend. Everybody drink a green beer for Gavin!

Photos from Orange Photography's Flickr page

We found this picture of Gaviffer looking cute, boring, and not married at the Google party last weekend. Thankfully, he left the blue tie at home, and we hope she left that weird houndstooth coat in a dumpster where it belongs.

Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.

If you remember, two years ago Gavin announced some program to fight litter in the streets by calling on residents to mobilize and clean the streets. Somewhere Gavin envisioned hordes of fresh-faced San Franciscans picking up random potato chip bags, coffee containers, and hypodermic needles while frolicking down Polk Street arm-in-arm singing John Denver songs. Well, as anybody could tell just by wandering the streets, the streets are still dirty as hell.

So today, Gavin introduced a new campaign to stop littering. This time, the campaign will be mainly educational as that appears to be the problem. We don't understand why people wouldn't think littering is bad, but we were kids in the early '70's and had a bunch of long-haired hippie teachers tell us that littering is bad, mmmmkay, in between the playing of Judy Collins' songs. Just walking to our car this morning, we saw a bag of chips lying on the street and it occured to us that as there was a garbage can a few feet away, why didn't somebody just dump it into the garbage can since the idea behind garbage can is that's where you put garbage.

Gavin's earlier campaign actually did work in some ways in that the amount of citations given out went up and the city picked up more trash than ever. There was even the establishement of "neighborhood ambassadors" whose job it was to sweep up streets and to alert the authorities whenever they saw an issue. It's just that as hard as the city tried, it wasn't enough.

So the Bay Guardian was sent a picture, purportedly of Han Shin and the object of his stalking fantasies, Gavin Newsom. A cropped version of it appears to your left; the full-size photo in the print edition shows Han Shin in a black jacket and royal-blue shirt unbuttoned at least two buttons down, revealing a lovely pendant. Gavin is in a pinkish-purple kimono-style robe, wearing what looks like a Bevan Dufty for Supervisor shirt underneath. The Guardian's source says they got the picture from Han Shin himself.

Now, we're no Photoshop experts, but a reader who is sent along the following thoughts:

The light on Gavin's face is coming from over the photog's right shoulder. So there is a shadow cast by his nose that shows you where the light is coming from. The area between the Gloved One's face and the kimono shouldn't be in shadow. The one pixel by 25 pixel area in shadow at this border suggests most of the light is coming from over the photog's left shoulder.

Also, what's up with that collar? Gav's oxford shirt collar sort of morphs into the kimono differently on the left versus the right side.

Now, you know that both we and Han Shin appreciate a good composite picture -- so did someone prank the Guardian? Or is Han Shin passing out more photoshopped pictures? (We still kind of want to see that diaper picture. Sort of.)

Or ....did Gavin actually lounge in a pink kimono-style bathroom with Han Shin? Fingers crossed! After all, Han Shin says he had sex with the mayor too. (Though an SFPD inspector says that claim "is not accurate. I've had discussions with Mayor Newsom.")

Remember that mini-scandal concerning Ruby Tourk's timesheets and her disability leave? Well, ABC 7's spunky I Team has more on the story as they got their hands on Ruby's timesheets and discovered that a a lot of her sheets were either signed by her, by random people or by nobody. That would be 42 out of 65 timesheets. Some of them were even signed off by hubby Alex and a few by Epstein's mother.

This of course is a no-no. Even Gavin's Chief of Staff, Phil Ginsberg said it was a no-no and that it won't happen again.

The big question, then, is if all of this is a case of malfeasance or incompetance. Or maybe a little bit of both. Did Alex get approval on her timesheets because she was a little bit more than her teacher's pet? Or was this all because nobody in Gavin's administration knows what's going on? Or, having done plenty of temp jobs before, was it just that nobody really cared that much about signing time sheets? We've had UPS delivery people sign our time sheets.

It also raises questions as to how many hours she really did work. All things considering, she could have come in for an hour a day, read Oh No They Didn't and go home after an hour. Nobody can really know for sure because the people who could check on it didn't check up on it.

The folks at NBC 11 gave Gavin Newsom a camera, and asked him to take photos of his life for their "Moving Pictures" series. During the promos, we started cracking up because there were all these clips of Gavin in full "woe is me" mode, talking about "compartmentalizing your personal life" and whatnot, set to really serious music. We expected the actual interview to include much of the same.

Instead, Gavin looked downright excited to be showing off his amateur photography skills. He even took pictures of the press! He was thrilled at the chance to be "Confronting all of you." Who are you talking to, Gav? (Is this about the time we took a picture of you with our camera phone? We totally deleted that.) He also said he got to ask the reporters questions for a change. Who did you interview, Gavin? Luke Thomas? That would be hot. Personally, we'd ask Luke if he'd like to contribute to Caption Action.

We also see the view from Gavin's apartment building, which he says is his first view ever. (Now we know why Han Shin was so anxious to get up there.) There are also a couple candids of Kamala Harris, which she probably won't be too happy about. Also: a fascinating shot of his desk clutter, some people we don't recognize, and Peter Ragone pointing to something that looks like the 49ers stadium plans. What it do, Byorn? We miss you!

The collection does not include any pictures of Gavin himself, though there's a picture of a bunch of pictures of him. Despite the constant media attention, and latest scandals, he said his his daily struggle, "Pales in comparison to what real people go through." For real.

Sobriety seems like it's agreeing with Big G. He's even talking clearer; we didn't hear any "Imo get to that!" anywhere. We hope he keeps it up!

You can see all Gavin's photos on NBC 11's website under "Moving Pictures."

Photos from NBC11.com

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So what's the latest with those two Asian-American embarrassments of last week, racist Kenneth Eng and Gavin-obsessed Han Shin? Or, as we call them around here, Green Dragon and Purple Glove!

The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece Dragons: Lexicon Triumverate (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down) and will delete the book from their website and from Amazon as well. (We just checked on Amazon and the page is totally gone! We should've cached it, along with its awesome accompanying blog.) The mortified publishers also released a statement that:

We are absolutely stunned by the writing of Ken Eng. We apologize again. At the time of his book acceptance there was no indication that things like this would come up to the surface.

The publishing house did say, however, that no more than 300 books would need to be pulled.

And Purple Glove? Not as much to report, except that he's been given a court date over his attempts to run over the roommate of a possible ex in San Ramon. He's also announced that he only wears Versace suits, and says only the police and psychiatrists think he has a mental problem. No one else?

Big G took a break from his busy thunder-stealing schedule on Sunday to watch his lady friend, Jennifer Siebel, act her heart out at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. The movie is The Trouble With Romance. It looks amazing.

According to NBC 11, Gavin will be showing off some photos he took himself tonight on the 11p.m. news. We wait with bated breath. Gavin Newsom, Renaissance Man!

Nice to see Gavin doing productive things now that he can't drink. Did he take any pictures while he was riding the J-Church?

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Kimberly Guilfoyle and her mocialite husband, Eric Villency, at the Michael Kors Fall 2007 fashion show. Who do you think is wearing more makeup?

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Conservatives are doing what they do best-- feigning outrage over trivial little thing, that being the fact that Gavin issued a proclamation making last Friday, "Colt Studio Day." For those not in the know, Colt Studio is a gay porn company in San Francisco that just recently celebrated it's 40th Anniversary.

You know, even we're thrown for a loop on this.

The proclamation came the day of a gala event (link NSFW) at the city's War Memorial for the company. The event was held the day before the GAYVN Awards, the big Gay Video awards event.

So here comes Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Anaheim-based Traditional Values Coalition "No other major city in the nation has gone so far as to blatantly glorify a homosexual porn producer and company." And Bill O'Reilly jumped in, saying "there is not another city in the country that has ever had a 'gay porn day'. And you wonder why your city is looked upon as a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah?"

And you know, Bill might be right about that. Not about the Sodom and Gomorrah bit (and if we are, we're darn proud of it) but the whole "only in San Francisco" thing. It might be just us, but we're not seeing Lincoln Nebraska having a "Vivid Video Day." Or hell, even politically correct us having a "Vivid Video Day." Or even having a day honoring the Mitchell Brothers.

California Assemblyman Mark Leno and San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros also joined in on the proclamation fun and Bevan Dufty was in attendance at the GAYVN. And that's probably something you won't be seeing in pretty much any other place, a government official attending a porn award show.

If Alex Tourk had a MySpace page, he would have moved Gavin from the #1 spot on his Top 8 after he heard about the affair, and deleted Gavin as a friend. So Gavin trying to be nice on Alex's birthday was like Gavin trying to re-friend Alex, and being denied. Gavin's gonna rot in Alex's hypothetical friend request box for all of eternity because they aren't even RealSpace friends anymore.

Alex was going to announce his future plans on Wednesday, but Gavin had go steal his thunder. Again. We didn't know what Alex was going to say before that, and now we really don't know. That would have been, like, news. Thanks a lot, Gavin!

Name-dropping isn't our thing (unless it's our name that's being dropped, duh), but we interviewed Alex back when we were a bright-eyed, pixie-haired intern at 7x7. The interview was for the Hot 20 Under 40 issue. We can remember being clueless as to who Alex was before the interview, only that he worked for Gavin and was really important.

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"Oh My Gawd, did you hear?"
"No, what?
"Well, like Gavin was at this, like, party and you'll never guess who was there?"
"Oh my gawd, who?"
"Alex Tourk."
"NO WAY"
"Totally."
"Did they say anything?"
"No. They just, like, pretended they didn't see each other."
"NO WAY. But did they see each other?"
"Gavin, like, totally saw Alex because one of his bodyguards walked right over and hugged Alex. And, like, Gavin WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!"
"OH MY GAWD."
"But it gets better, because, like, it was totally Alex's birthday and Gavin didn't even sing along."
"NOOOO!!!!!!!."
"Yeah, but then he totally did at the end. Oh, and guess what?"
"What?"
"Like Gavin gave this, like, talk at the end and he was all 'Alex Tourk did an awesome job.'"
"Oh my gawd, Gavin is sooo hot"
"But then Alex was all 'I'm outta here, bitch'" and he totally left."
"Oh no, he didn't."
"Oh yes he did."
"Oh my God, that’s crazy."
"Totally."

So what's the latest with Purple Gloves? Well, Gavin Newsom's stalker Han Shin is now behind bars, after being arrested last night by the Union City cops. Not for the Gavin shenanigans, mind you -- but because yesterday morning, Shin had driven over to a possible ex's house in San Ramon, and when his ex wasn't there, stormed into the house, stolen several items, and then tried three times to run over one of the ex's roommates. (Hey, all of a sudden we're now wondering on the current status of the last mentally ill East Bay man who tried to run people over.)

They found Shin at his parents' house, hiding in a closet. Once caught, Shin reacted violently to the arrest, hitting one officer in the nose.

Before being taken in, though, he called a local newspaper, the Argus, and complained that the media was portraying him as a "Jacko wacko." (He also admitted he was in Gavin's apartment building, but refused to comment further on the situation, saying, "What happened that night is between me, the doorman, and Gavin.")

The Argus also confirmed that -- the rumors you've heard are true -- the composite picture of Shin with Gavin featured "an Asian man wearing only a diaper." Probably an astronaut.