Hey, remember Gavin Newsom's stalker, Han Shin? He's back in the news, appearing in court today to answer the charges that he tried to run over the roommate of a friend of his, right around the same time as Newsom got that stay-away order from him too. (We had forgotten Han Shin sent a bunch of letters to Ed Jew too! What address did Shin use, do you think?) So here's the story. Shin shows......

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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 Han Shin and......

Han Shin showed up in court in Contra Costa County yesterday to plead not guilty to the charges that he tried to run over an ex's roommate with his car in San Ramon. He smiled and wished the judge a good day. Meanwhile, the authorities also arrested an Oakland man who's been stalking Schwarzenegger. Good ol' Dan Noyes! His I-Team's sued MUNI to get access to bus safety records, and they just won an order......

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......

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.......

"He is like a cross between Liberace and Hello Kitty. He is out of his gourd." - Bevan Dufty describing Han Shin (aka Purple Gloves) to the Bay Area Reporter....

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....

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......

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......

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups. Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had......

From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from the building to the Bay Bridge. Also found were a cutout composite photograph of the mayor, Shin and Shin's father, magazines with articles about Newsom, a laminated photograph of Newsom, three purple latex gloves and a cassette tape titled "President Newsom." Now,......

Special single-issue Blotter! And please note: other SFist writers may very well take a crack at this same topic. Looking for news on Gavin's stalker? We've now rearranged this morning's blotter into our usual Breaking News format, latest updates on top. Read our original post after the jump too, we're quite proud of all the links we put in! Latest: Guess who else Han Shin was obsessed with? District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew! He's gotten......