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Did you know that the "North of Market Holiday Celebration" is coming up? Neither did we! And neither did the rest of the internet, because there's no mention of the (possibly-fictitious) event anywhere else online. What could it possibly be? We simply couldn't find any information or imagery related to the damn thing; and that's why we decided to run this totally-unrelated picture from a few weeks ago.

The airtight smiles. Awesome. For those of you somehow not tempted into becoming a part of Van Santian art -- or, you know, if you sport a vagina -- might we suggest catching round II of the Leno vs. Migden smackdown? Sponsored by the Harvey Milk Club, this meeting is sure to ruffle a few plumes and have local politicos affectedly scratching their chins for days to come. That's right, kids, it's on. It is...

Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty much useless. To wit, they've only been used for evidence in two cases, neither of which were the homicides that they said the cameras would help solve. Whether this is because cameras don't deter crime, or because the restrictions that the civil libertarians have put on the camera usage is debatable. Also, it could just be that the cameras we have aren't great, and are particularly not useful at night, when most of the crimes occur.

Dan Johnson of Burritophile wants to meet up at Taqueria El Castillito on Golden Gate Avenue, just a stone's throw away from City Hall. To us, this lends a lot of credibility to Dan and Co.'s Web-based burrito review service; one problem with your typical review site is you don't know how the staff's sensibilities mesh with yours. Cate Czerwinski, another editor at the site, joins us shortly after we ordered. She's actually the one who's behind the editorial review of El Castillito on the site; Cate gave it an 8 out of 10 overall. If we weren't inclined to agree we could always post our own review on Burritophile--that's the point. Burritophile offers a good, expanding mix of reviews from site staff as well as anyone else who cares to give an opinion.

From the genius who popularized the Hummer came two separate gubernatorial bitch slaps yesterday: first, he vetoed AB 866, which would have added "sexual orientation" to attributes (such as age or race) in a voluntary pledge that allows politicians the option of stating that they won't permit appeals based on negative stereotypes in their political campaigns. Despite having successfully existed for some time, the pledge was declared by Arnold to be "unenforceable" (um, yes, that's what the whole "voluntary" part is about) and, oddly, argued that politicians (such as himself) should not have the option of pledging to practice "decency, honesty, and fair play," because only voters ought to determine which negative stereotypes aren't ok to exploit. Read his vague statement here -- adding insult to injury, it's in PDF.