We're baaaaaaack! We missed you! Sorry we've been gone from the scene for so long -- yes, we've been swamped at work, but honestly, we've been so dispirited with this particular election cycle lately, we figured we were going to boycott posting until it was OVER. Over over over. So -- man, how irritating is this? It's never going to be over! Thanks to the city's questionable ballot-reading machines, it's going to take weeks to......

Too real, if you ask us. Election night will soon fall upon the city like a blanket of darkness. But that doesn't mean you should celebrate or grieve alone. Ripping off Inspired by SFBG's Election Night Parties, we present to you SFist's...election night parties. Ta-da. -- Gavin Newsom's (Victory) Party: Pros: at the Ferry Building, the thrill of victory, Gavin's form Cons: at some point you will be snubbed by someone in the society......

Photo showing the lack of excitement associated with our mayoral race. ...

Migden, Leno, Peskin, Daly, Herrera all were on the scene at one point or another, and tempers flared. Why? Because Carole Migden stole the show (along with a hefty endorsement) at last night's Harvey Milk Club meeting. ...

Objectifying Gavin Newsom is dead. We've shifted our stalker gaze on Quintin Mecke, and so have many of SFist's more randy readers. Where does he stand on the issues? Who cares! (Well, actually, we do care. Excuse us for getting caught up in the moment.) People are begging for more shots of him. And so are we. ...

-- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor & the Tamale Lady Happy Hour: Progressives, tamales, and DJ Julian Mocine-McQueen! Goes from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (pub crawl to follow) at Mecke for Mayor HQ, 544 Haight. -- Black Fag: Hardcore queer tribute to '70s punk band Black Flag. Tippers Gore, Warkrime, Sabertooth......

Before last night's much more important Zombie Attack, there was some sort of mayoral debate at some bookish building. A debate consisting of Mayor Gavin Newsom, possible contender Quintin Mecke, and slew of other candidates who, more or less, sold their remaining integrity and ethics for a shot at "local personality" status. Well, congrats: you're all winners, then. And seeing how there was a particularly good Inside Edition on last night, and 30 Rock......

Photos from mayoral candidates from over the weekend. ...

You think Gavin means it when he tells Ken Garcia that it's kind of freaking him out that no one's running against him? Well, there's one more down: ABC 7's Dan Noyes has the scoop that Tony Hall has dropped out of the race too. Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and......

-- Total lunar eclipse starts tonight. [NASA] -- GNS doesn't care for the new progressive candidate, Quintin Mecke. But after looking him over, we want to ask Quintin out for some coffee, maybe a movie, and...who knows? We're just saying is all. Heh. Yeah. [GNS] -- SF teenager shot three times. [Chron] -- Mother Teresa questioned God's existence. Heathen. [BeyondChron] -- Tiny 2.4 quake hardly rocks Berkeley this morning. [Chron] -- South Beach living,......

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......