Do you guys think it's true that Gavin Newsom refused to do anything with Conan O'Brien when Conan was in town last week because his feelings were hurt by Conan's jokes about him? If so, that is so lame! (Also, you can just scratch SFist off the Gavin Newsom party invite list right now.)

So the official story is that Mayor Newsom didn't show up for NBC's Conan celebration day last Wednesday because Newsom was "accidentally overbooked" and was doing an interview on SportsCenter about Barry Bonds instead. Oh, . Who cares what Newsom has to say about Barry Bonds. Do they call Michael Bloomberg for a comment on Wang Chien-Ming's hamstring? Was Gavin just calling up like every single TV show that tapes on Wednesday afternoons to overbook himself? "Ladies! I'll totally host The View!" (Though Elisabeth Hasselbeck does kind of seem like his type, doesn't she?)

Anyhow, so thoughtful readers were kind enough to send to us all the Gavin Newsom jokes Conan told, which are after the jump. Every day is Conan O'Brien Day at SFist!

We've been dying for a chance to use this picture from Gavin Newsom's reelection Flickr site. Feel free to Photoshop that marquee and send it back to us if you're so inclined!

As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to be assessed these days!

So we start off with local progressive Internet guerrillas GavinWatch. Welcome back! After their mysterious disappearance, they've changed all their old passwords, reuploaded all their old clips -- and they're ready to start watching Gavin Newsom again! (GavinWatch -- are you behind these Newsom BETRAY stickers popping up all over town?) They're having their grand reopening party this Thursday at the Balazo Gallery on 18th and Mish, which promises to be filled with their usual anti-Newsom political action hilarity. Will we find out who exactly GavinWatch is at the party? Will folks from Team Newsom Reelection try to crash? We'll just have to wait and see.

But wait! That's not the only ____Watch in town. Pat Murphy at the Sentinel's just launched his own blogspot Watch -- for (guess who): his frenemy Chris Daly! Alas, there's no exciting GavinWatch-style YouTube clips or animated .gif graphics on Dalywatch.blogspot.com yet (just a long story about the latest in Daly's attempts to launch an investigation against Murphy for ethics violations), but we're sure all you anti-Dalys will be happy to volunteer your digital cameras and Java skills to Pat Murphy's cause. As Murphy says on the site, "Watch the man with care, and render your judgment here."

And finally -- Chronicle Watch! Dude, Chris Daly has not taken down his campaign sign from the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness. We mean it, Chris, we're gonna email the big Watchers in town now! (Can someone please lend Chris Daly a stepladder to take that sign down?)

Picture of BETRAY sticker from our Flickr stream (tag 'em SFist) by Steve Rhodes; we took the picture of the Daly 06 sign at Mission and South Van Ness.

When we last left the Leno vs. Migden contest, there was much gnashing of the teeth over these two progessive titans matching up. As SFist Rita put it, What Would the Progressives Do? Should they side with Leno or with Migden? It's like when two really good friends have a party at the same time and one guy has a keg of Meisterbrau and another of Sierra. You want to drink the Sierra, but if you go to that party, would your other friend get pissed at you? So, to make sure the campaign didn't get too nasty a peacetreaty of such was signed with both Leno and Migden pledging to be all cute and cuddly during the campaign. And so within days, a Migden ally went all NAMBLA on Leno.

In a blog entry, Migden advisor, biggest fan, and former aide, Michael "Mike Opera" Colbruno posted all sorts of nice things about Leno. Like that he's a "Porn King" and sort of implies that he's a favorite candidate of NAMBLA. Seriously, we don't know how much lower one could go. This might be a whole new political term much in the phrase "Swift Boating" has become. We'll call this "NAMBLAD." Leno got NAMBLAD.

We should probably go to the backstory here as this didn't just come out of nowhere. Way back in those wild and impetiuos days of 2006, Schwarzeneggar and the Republicans in the State Legislature decided to think about the children and start up a ballot initiative called "Jessica's Law" which was a crackdown on sex offenders. Among the provisions was that anybody convicted of a sex crime couldn't live within 2,000 feet of a school or park. It also said that if a person is caught with child pornography just once, they'd go to prison. Leno, along with others, thought the bill was too harsh and not very smart and tried to come up with an alternative bill. In that bill, he got rid of the provision about where a sex offender could live and moved the number that a person could be convicted of for child pornography to twenty-five. Leno's point was that it's too easy for somebody to accidently click on something they shouldn't click on and then find themselves in prison.

Now Leno didn't try and stop Jessica's Law. He didn't fight it. He just made some changes that he thought would make it a better law, something a lot of other people agreed with. But he made himself and easy target and yadda yadda yadda-- Leno got tagged as a pro-sex offender and child pornographer.

So now the big question is what is Opera Mike thinking. He supposedly still has Migden's ear so did he do this with Migden's approval? Was it some ploy to scare the living daylights out of people in Marin who don't know that much about Leno? Colbruno is so into it, he went on Left in SF and posted long comments in defense of all this. Did he do this all on his own? Did Carole put him up to it? Or does Opera Mike just really, reall dislike Leno. Who knows?

Photo from Michael Colbruno's Flickr page

The crowd inside was raucous, befitting a man who's an icon not only to 60s psychedelic fans but also 70s horror-metal ones -- a woman stood up and started shouting something about making Schwarzenegger the vice president and someone lobbed a handful of popcorn at her, hard. The crowd settled down some when the Noise Pop film fest organizer told everyone to behave, and that Roky was in the audience. (Roky is playing a sold-out show tonight at the Great American, also for Noise Pop).

Okay, this has been killing us all afternoon. So we were checking out the pictures from Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign kickoff rally from Sunday on his campaign website's "Brian Blogs," and it looks like they decorated the office with lots and lots of signs featuring the names of different SF neighborhoods. Sure, cool, no prob.

But.... what's the neighborhood in the sign at the very right of that picture? The Om---? What SF neighborhood starts with the name "The Om--"? The Omni? The Ombudsman? The Om Malik? We're totally stumped. Can someone please help us out here?