Man, this dull-as-dishwater mayoral "race" is getting us in the blogging doldrums. Someone do something funny, quick! Meanwhile, we'll pass along the news of the latest progressive hope for the Newsom mayoral steamroller juggernaut, Quintin Mecke. Mecke's the director of the Safety Network Partnership, active on homelessness and public safety issues, praises Project Homeless Connect, and has worked on Chris Daly's, Matt Gonzalez's, and Ross Mirkarimi's campaigns. His first order of business is going to......

--Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A Pirates of the Caribbean ship sails through Oakland. --San Francisco comic artist Justin Hall gives a superhero lecture at ToonFetish, a conference in Hollywood which SFist MattyMatt assures us is about exactly what it sounds like it's about. --Gay bomb, gay bomb,......

So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving for "personal reasons" the mind does tend to go to certain places. But no matter where your mind wandered, we have a feeling it didn't wander as far as what really happened because the Chron is reporting that Tourk quit mainly because Gavin had an affair with Tourk's wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk. Rippey-Tourk (and woah, what a name) was Gavin's appointments secretary at the time....

Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer of polite ceremony." In reading the summary of the meeting, though, we're not seeing much of a veneer of anything -- unless Chris Daly was smiling extreeeeemely magnanimously as he went through "San Francisco's version of apartheid" (economic disparity in District......

Where we summarize reports written by actual media sources because they're really important but we don't feel like we're in any position to be able to comment on them! The Chron revived its semi-regular profile of life on the streets with a three-part series (which concluded yesterday) about how things are looking for the San Francisco homeless population after the implementation of Newsom's Care Not Cash program. Answer: definitely at least some good, maybe part......

BREAKING NEWS..... BREAKING NEWS.... MAYOR HAS RETURNED TO GEL STOP. HAIR HAS RESUMED PREVIOUS CONFIGURATION STOP. [yes, we know, the stop means period, so there is technically no need to put a period after it -- but it's hard to read like that is all. We're just thinking about your reading comfort!] Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back......

Special make-up day edition. Lots of tech to get out of the way. Peter Merholtz criticizes the tone of Google's "Golden Rules" for managing knowledge workers. Yahoo, meanwhile, goes and buys del.icio.us, which means Yahoo 360 will now be able to integrate three of our favorite tools in one place. And apparently Mena Trott got in quite the snit with Ben Metcalfe at Les Blogs in Paris -- coverage from Eric Rice, Chris Heuer......

From the week that was... -After an extensive, nation-wide search, Gavin announced a new head of the Parks & Recs Department-- the guy who was in charge already. Your new boss of the Parks & Rec Department is the same as the old boss, Yomi Agunbiade. As SFist has done our fair share of temping, we always love it when the temp gets the full-time gig. Gavin also promised major shakeups to the department, including......

Yes, that's our fair mayor washing the feet of a constituent at yesterday's Project Homeless Connect outreach event. Hundreds of volunteers and the homeless they aim to help were on hand to provide medical, counseling and housing services. The San Francisco Sentinel has more coverage up today on their homepage with great pictures from Luke Thomas. As tipster Kimo pointed out, "Whatever you think of Gavin – nice symbolism – I can’t imagine Brown......

In a press release from the California Culinary Academy we received today, the executive chefs and students at the CCA will be serving 1,000 lunches to the local homeless at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium tomorrow as part of Gavin's Project Homeless Connect, which strives to bring city services and volunteers directly to the local homeless population. From the release: "Because Project Homeless Connect really makes a difference for those in our own neighborhood......

When the Guardian did their piece on the "New Bay," as coined by the EA-Ski-produced Frontline, maybe they didn't quite get it right. Does "New Bay" refer to a resurgence in local hip-hoppers getting record label contracts, or is that "New Bay" an allusion to G-New, AKA Da Mayor? Why do we presume that Gavin is secretly a hardcore MC? Well, there's the bling-bling appearance -- slick hair, tight threads. There's the oratorial magnificence.......