Today is the President's State of the Union speech, which basically means staying completely away from the TV or the non-Lindsey Lohan obsessed internets for the night lest we get over-run with a tidal wave of bile that these things cause. We hear this year's speech is going to be a doozy too-- while W. shreds the constitution, all the Republicans in congress will sit back and smoke cigars lit by $100 bills given to them by Jack Abramoff. Which raises the question of what to do? Well, there's always NetFlix, of course, as well as good old TiVo. It's also a good night to go to the movies and while Brokeback Mountain is all too obvious of a choice, not to mention something we've all seen by now, we'd like to suggest the Underworld: Evolution as there's something appropriate about watching a blood-drenched movie featuring both Vampires, Werewolves and Kate Beckinsale in a black leather outfit. Ba Bow! ...

Say hello to my li'l Wednesday! Tonight: Don't say there's never anything to do around here! Case in point: An Italian saxophone quartet is playing their classical and light jazz repertoire tonight at 8 p.m. at the Old First Church, which is on Sacramento Street between Polk and Van Ness. We've never seen some many euphemistic synonyms for the word "....interesting.....!" before. It could really be awesome! $15. Thursday: The one, the only, the ur-Wonkette: Ana Marie Cox is in town promoting her novel. At the Commonwealth Club. In a conversation with Chose and Lost Tabitha Soren. We can't wait to see the bus ads they run for this one. "So.... do you really take it up the ass? I asked Wonkette." $20 for non-members. and Friday: Guilty pleasures, dance version! ODC Theater present Underserved II: a night of 11 choreographers setting 5-minute performances based on pop songs they're embarrassed to admit they like. Please take note: Weezer will be featured. Genius! ODC's at 17th and Shotwell, show's at 8, $12 admission. ...

The local blogosphere seems to have shaken off their collective hangover, so lots to discuss today. Om Malik pours cold water on the Google PC rumor, points toward Google Video and says "getting warmer." An ever bigger rumor is that Microsoft might swallow Yahoo whole. Meanwhile, Evil Signtist Courtney lauds Google for shouting out Louis Braille on his birthday. And Nivi asks that you "Donate to Wikipedia if You Love Your Mom." Alternately, donate......

Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over there on that other coast -- they're seen as a danger to everything that's good and right with America, even if they're just fun-loving kids with a taste for Emma Goldman. First, the Tenth Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair which Rona......

For those of you who were wondering, yes, we are actually here for the panels. Kind of. We're also here to get drunk and make out. But only after discussing copyright reform, comment spam, the need for more diversity of voices in the blogosphere, the nature of journalism and the latest trends in technology. Because that gets us hott. Ever since the computer meltdown, though, we've been beholden to the computers in the press......

Sfist staff lets the world know about the crap they're reading. Some good, some bad....

Finally. A goddamn invitation to a real party with real f**king stars. Like Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders who were nice enough to give us Peter A.'s email to RSVP. These, friends, are stars. Love them. Gossip about them. But mostly, read them. Oh, there were more stars, but we had to bump them out of respect. Hell, we ran into our unemployed blogger hero Dan Gillmor talking to Craig Newmark tonight and were......

One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror. Her talk is likely to focus on criticism of her book from the left, the role of racial profiling in our current War on Terror and her experiences as an author, New York Post columnist and television personality. Some readers may remember the heated exchange between Ms. Malkin, Chris Matthews and our own Willie Brown on MSNBC's Hardball, which Ms. Malkin posted about on her site. 1115.org has made their feelings known by featuring Ms. Malkin in one of their biting STFU pieces, and Ana Marie Wonkette has also weighed in on the issue. EssEffist also wants to point out that the children and grandchildren of interned Japanese Americans will have a hard time swallowing some of her arguments - and Muslim students at Cal, who by her own account should be viewed with suspicion as potential terrorists based on their ethnic background, are probably none too pleased with her appearance. EssEffist remembers reading Farewell to Manzanar in grade school and thinks the camps and their justifications were truly regrettable. We thought we were all clear on this when Reagan apologized for it, but Ms. Malkin disagrees. The speech will be tomorrow night at 7:00pm in 145 Dwinelle Hall on campus....