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David Beckham's gargantuan Armani underwear poster splattered against the side of the Macy's building to much acclaim yesterday. "Just in time for gay-wedding gift shopping," declares Gawker, here are some shots of the man's monstrous, 100% cotton-sheathed unit as it's being unleashed to the hungry masses below.

The Bay Area is rife with celebrities right now. Oprah spoke at Stanford’s graduation. Beckham is playing soccer and selling underwear. Got any good stories or pix? Do share! Who needs the paparazzi when we’ve got SFist readers?

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles.

Because kangaroos are so adorably bouncy and keep their little blessings inside of their pouches, the California Supreme Court just overturned the Senate’s May decision to end the ban "on importing and selling kangaroo parts." Namely, the David Beckham-inspired Adidas soccer cleats might not be for sale in California. (That and other Kangaroo-skin featured items.) Although the Senate recently allowed "kangaroo-derived products made by the sporting goods" industry to sell their stuff willy-nilly, the Supreme Court’s counter will most likely be overturned.

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic night" and sang a custom version of Madonna's "Borderline" to a much-beleaguered board member.

"I love that word 'relationship'. Covers all manner of sins, doesn't it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship. A relationship based on the President taking exactly what he wants and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to, erm... Britain. We may be a small country but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that. And a friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger. And the President should be prepared for that." - Hugh Grant, as Prime Minister, in Love Actually

Gavin's BFF, Vanessa Getty, looked fabulous at artist Damien Hirst's show in LA last Thursday. This is a signature look for Vanessa -- vintage-looking dress, simple jewelry, and metallic clutch -- but it works. Too bad she didn't look this good in that Judith Leiber ad!

-And speaking of the Warriors, there's bad news and even worse news. The bad news is that they lost to the Nuggets 123-111. The worse news? Baron Davis is all set to have knee surgery. Is this the end of the season? Should the Warriors, then, throw in the towel and play for a lottery pick? And should fans root for them to loose-- you know, fantanking.

After a weekend in which it felt like we watched about 100 hours of football, all we can say is Bill Belichick has some major cojones and one can only wonder what Marty Schottenheimer did in a past life to deserve everything that has happened to him in the playoffs.

So where are we in the whole Bonds on Speed story? According to the Giants, they didn't know Bonds tested positive at all which sounds kind of silly, now doesn't it? Barry also went out and defended Mark Sweeney, which is nice of him to do considering Barry threw him under the bus.

that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post.

We have to admit that we love the idea of the baseball World Cup. It could turn into something awesome, like the soccer World Cup, except with more scoring and less David Beckham. Which doesn't mean that MLB won't somehow screw it up, but it has potential. The biggest thing the thing needs is legitimacy from its star players. Well, it just got one of its biggest stars to compete, maybe the biggest of the big, one Barry Lamar Bonds.

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order.