-- Smell that? It's the stench of awards season underway. And the San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominees are... [Hartlaub, Maximum Strength Mick] -- Rincon Hill? Is fit to be tied. [Curbed] -- The Hayward fault is coming to get you, us. [The Snitch] -- Mark and Carole and Tim and SFist. [SFBG] -- "[C]od sperm crostini." (Also: barf.) [Eater] -- Will you buy us this incredibly well lit house? [The Front Steps] --......

-- Daly v. Newsom on the budget. Good stuff. [The Daly Blog] -- Vodka for everyone! Russian company buys LiveJournal. [The Snitch] -- Friday night is dope night. [BeyondChron] -- Andrew Cohen on the SFPD (one year later.) [InsidetheSFPD] -- Tahoe's isn't easy being green. [Curbed SF] -- How to make a tiny top hat. For your head. No, not that one, perv. [SFBG] -- Why, Tim Goodman has a personal blog now. Who'd a......

-- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? Ugh.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch]...

--East Bay garbage workers still locked out. [The Trib, the Chron, KTVU, CBS 5] --White supremacists keep writing the SF Weekly about popular SFist topic Harmon Leon's story from two years ago. [The Snitch.] --Chris Daly feeds the trolls. [Daly Blog comments] --65-year-old man walking home in North Beach at 11 p.m. shot in a failed robbery. [Chron.] --They arrested someone in the Dolores Park fireworks fiasco -- they don't have enough evidence to......

Supervisor Chris Daly takes a break from smashing the state to continue the Matt Gonzalez tradition of Smashing The State through art, as he hosts what looks like his first City Hall art show. (is that right?) Hey, is Ross Mirkarimi still having his art shows, or has he moved onto the ultimate performance art project of compiling a 5 bazillion-page zoning guideline for pot clubs? We can't find any information about Daly's show online -- not even at the Daly Blog -- but sources (and the fine print on the .jpg we got forwarded) tell us it'll be featuring the work of photographer Mark Ellinger, who takes pictures of SROs in the Tenderloin and SoMA. Sounds like Daly's going to be featuring Ellinger's work and talking about SRO mailbox legislation, with free food and drink to boot. The event's next Friday (2/10) and open to the public. We can't wait! The photographs are beautiful, and -- well, all right, we are totally dying to see what Chris Daly's office looks like too. We promise not to start any fights! Okay, and this is not related to anything, but is it a bad sign when a news article entitled: "As Wife Heads To Jail, Daly Shoots 69" is published and two or three people email asking you how SFist will be covering this? (John Daly! The golfer!) The Hotel Project February 10, 2006, 4-7 p.m. Room 273, City Hall, SF. Picture by Mark Ellinger...

Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to protest the fact that the mayor wanted to give a tax break to a bike race sponsored by Republicans when he wouldn't give money to villages affected by the tsunami. This was because the city was going to write off the amount of money it would cost to provide police services for the race. You may recall that Daly's proposal was greeted with chortles and harumphs all around (some even in this very blog), and went down in defeat (see angry blog entry!). Well, well, well -- how things change in seven months! It turns out the Grand Prix actually was cheating the system -- they stiffed San Francisco and somehow "forgot" to pay for almost $90,000 of police services they incurred in 2004. (They also haven't paid another $82,000 in fees to DPT and DPW). The City by law is not permitted to enter into a contract with someone who owes it money. No one has an explanation for this, and Peskin had a conniption ("I stuck my neck way out for you. You played me for a fool. I resent it deeply." That's the way he rolls, baby!) We imagine Daly smiled beatifically at the Chron reporters when he told them, "I have had many reservations about the San Francisco Grand Prix, even as an avid cyclist, as a commuting cyclist." (bonus link: read about how Daly got doored). Picture from the Daly Blog...