Guess Lumpy's not doing it after all -- Pat Murphy, the guy who came up with the catch phrase "Do It, Lumpy" to goad local progressive ringleader and District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly into running for mayor in the first place, has posted a press release from Camp Daly. Contrary to Chris's prior bold statements that he'd jump in the race if no one else did, Daly now says: Family is the most important......

Gavin "Big G" Newsom and Kamala "Lil' Kam" Harris laying down some tracks in the studio. We smell a Grammy, or at least something for them to fall back on if things don't go their way this November. ...

Esther Hwang picked a bad day for a press conference -- normally, the media would be all over the former Willie Brown secretary turned cheesecake model turned San Francisco Law School student discussing the $1 million lawsuit she's filed against the SFPD for alleged brutality against her outside a North Beach bar -- but with everyone distracted by Ed Jew's flight from the law, Carole Migden's cancer-related bad driving, and in a city that now......

--There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at them with a camera in hand. --Better to be biking to work than on MUNI -- as some of you reported to us, there was a massive meltdown in the tunnel this morning when the computer system crashed. Maggie Lynch says......

As far as we know, our mom is NOT behind this movement. But we're totally flattered that blogswarm at Calitics thinks we should run for mayor. We're even more flattered that our CrackBerry Chronicles are "dreaded" by someone other than Gavin Newsom. HIGHlarious! ...

And how is the commute going after yesterday's maze meltdown? So far, so good. Reports are that traffic into the maze was light, as probably everyone who commutes over the Bay Bridge, their dogs, and their fish knows what happened. It's still early yet so we'll see what happens tonight and until the overpass gets fixed....

In Friday's Chronicle, the paper's editorial page editor, John Diaz, writes that he recently discovered that he was placed on the Government's "Watch List." Which makes sense, we guess, because Diaz is Arabic for "not even close to sounding Arabic." In the piece, Diaz says that when he tried to print out his advance tickets at the airport, he was instead told to go to the counter. There, he was told the reason for all this was because he was on double secret probation...

Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums tried to out-macho each other last night at the MacArthur Maze. ...

Realizing his town hall meeting is a farce, Gavin Newsom resorts to drinking his own Kool-Aid. ...

"Matt Gonzalez is a wonderful man for a nice girl like me." - SFist Elaine, wiping away a tear. ...

After weeks of playing coy, Danny Glover finally addressed the question about running for Mayor and said nyet to the whole idea. In a statement released to the press, Danny said "I have not considered, nor am I entertaining, the idea of running for mayor." That sounds pretty definitive, actually, not the usual kind of wishy-washy statement candidates make when they kind of sort of want to run but don't want to commit just yet. The Examiner's kind of funny but mainly not "San Francisco's Next Mayor?" bit had Glover listed at 450-1 odds anyways. That's slightly better odds than Wolfgang Puck but not nearly as good odds as Clint Eastwood or Larry Ellison. ...

Matt Gonzalez: "I'm sorry, SFist Elaine, but I've gotta run." SFist Elaine: "We've only been dating for five minutes, and you're already breaking up with me?" Matt Gonzalez: "No, I just can't stand how Luke Thomas is always crashing our dates." Luke Thomas: "She's mine, Matt!"...

When Luke Thomas sent us these pictures of Jennifer Siebel yesterday, we just about died and went to sartorial heaven. Even Jennifer can't believe how cute she looks. Please keep this up, Jen, and give us the name of the salesperson who sold you your cape. We want to buy that person a mojito....

Univision: "You okay, Gavin?" Gavin: "Imo get to that question when I get through this door!" KGO: "Did your hair get bigger, or is the doorway getting smaller?" Gavin: "Why's everybody gotta hate? I killed that town hall meeting. I'm the best mayor in the world!" Pat Murphy: "Is it true you got rid of your entire blue tie collection to quell the wrath of SFist Rita?" Gavin: "SFist Rita wasn't even here. What's up with that? They sent that creampuff, SFist Elaine, instead." SFist Elaine: "Whatev, Gavin. You are so DTM!*" ...

Since this rumor is getting a lot of play these days, it's time to do the Official SFist post on it and that is the Danny Glover for Mayor rumors. The rumors supposedly started on SFJunto and have been picked up by progressives as something doable and even kind of exciting. Hell, somebody has to run against Gavin. The thinking is he'd make perfect candidate because he's a noted lefty (he was so virulently anti-apartheid that he killed a bunch of South Africans diplomats), lives in San Francisco, and is a star, baby, a star. Hell, if Arnie could be governor and Fred Thompson the sudden leading Republican Presidential candidate based on his appearing on "Law and Order" why not Danny? The Examiner has him at 450-1 odds that he's running. ...

Gavin Newsom was all raspy voice and bulletproof hair at last night at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. Despite somebody's command to "Go back to Nob Hill!" Gavin asserted "I'm not going away." He's used that phrase a couple times now. Is that your campaign slogan, homie? We hope not, because you're not exactly the underdog. It's almost April and you still don't have an opponent. ...

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....

Dan Noyes: Is it true that you're leaving your position to start a hyphy group with your brother and John Nelson called the Ragone Clown Posse? ...

It's the return of our column where we compile all the attacks and defenses of Gavin Newsom in one handy place! This week it's all attacks, though. Send your Newsom defenses here! (or post 'em in the comments.) So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin Newsom's much-touted "open door......

-Alleged cop killer deemed "non-violent" before he turned violent. -Weather report calls for rain and floods and possible building of arks. -Arnie to undergo surgery today on his broken leg. -Temblor #4 was in Union City. -Father dies on Christmas day fire in the Mission. -Remember all of that big too-doo over Virgin Airlines coming to SFO? Ooops. -Somebody gets their holiday's mixed up and vandalizes a couple of Bay Area cemeteries. -You know......

The rumors are confirmed! Supervisor Chris Daly has indeed grown a mustache. That's good progress on the handlebar we were suggesting, Chris! Don't worry, folks, we have word that he's shaving it off soon. This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along!......

SFist has a late breaking story today about a secret cabal of people who just might be trying to ruin our city. Who are these people? We don't know. We do know that they walk amongst us and hide their true identities. Some of these people you might see at Safeway. Some of these people you might see walking down the street. Some of these people might EVEN BE WORKING WITH YOU! Be afraid, be very afraid. Who are these people? Posters on SFWall.net ...

Today, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors take up legislation both big and small. First up is a possible override of Gavin's veto of the foot patrol legislation. The board needs eight votes to override Mayor McDreamy's veto, one short of the seven they got when they passed the bill. Right now, it's not looking like it'll happen. Luke Thomas reports in Fog City that two of the seven have been flipped. The two who......

-Another Caltrain fatality, yesterday around 6. It's the thirteenth this year. -McAfee is your latest hi-tech company to have a CEO go down due to stock shenanigans. ...

--Another successful Folsom Street Fair! --Another successful Dragon Boat race! --Another successful Burlingame Pet Parade! --Another successful Love Parade! Article by Catherine Rauschuber, pictures by Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal. See also the Sentinel's coverage, some of which is NSFW. (Luke's pictures are okay for work.). --Happy birthday, Jaynry Mak! --Give Gavin a raise (Sofia Milos makes an appearance later in this item as well). --District 6 candidate Rob Black gets the all-important......

Wanna see more pictures like this? Well, starting next week, you'll get your chance! So do you remember our post from earlier this week about the dueling Daly/Black kickoff rallies? Well, as photographer (and former Sentinel co-editor) Luke Thomas was being kind enough to give us permission to use his pictures from the event, he mentioned that his new website Fog City Journal is launching this Sunday, Sept. 24. We can't wait to see......

You know, we never got that string of silver anti-Daly beads from Pat Murphy.... Pat Murphy, as you guys probably know, edits the local political blog San Francisco Sentinel, the publication that showed us how Chris Daly rolls, and which provided us with some stiff competition for our prestigious Pubbies award (it was of course an honor to be considered among such an august group). The combination of Murphy's elliptical Variety-style gossipy prose and the......

--Why's Lawrence Wong getting in so much trouble for accidentally crossing a picket line when the Bay Area Reporter did too? --The Stanford Band frets about its future. --The SF hip-hop dancer (Allan) from the first season of So You Think You Can Dance supports Krissy Keefer. --Maggie Lynch compares MUNI to Lemony Snicket. --Skip school, go to jail. --More cops in North Beach. Why aren't there more cops in the Western Addition? --Pat Murphy......

It's our column about the shenanigans in the upcoming District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates An (Alleged) Party Crasher. Remember how we said word on the street was that the mayor was going to make an endorsement in the District 6 race? Well, the streets don't lie -- sure enough, on sunny Saturday, Gavin Newsom took a break from acid-washing his jeans to stop by the Tehama Street Mural (sponsored by Cingular Wireless)......

As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to our collective benefit. As promised, commenter Ed sent along his thoughts and pictures -- pass along your story, or a link to your blog, in the comments if you're so inclined. The perspicacious Pat Murphy and Luke Thomas went, shot, and uploaded, as did Flickr user honan, whose picture appears above. Local news stations have downloadable clips of the event today too. And as always, the Chron's got the crack reporters and photogs on scene too -- and it was pretty cool to wake up this morning and read the version (.jpg) of the April 18, 1906 front page that no one actually saw. That quake series has been fun to read. Here's to you, indominable spirit of San Francisco! Picture off flickr by honan....