We mentioned this in Tuesday's Day Around the Bay, but there are some new bits to the story so we're going to do a full post on it. Plus, it's kind of a fun story. Anyways, this is about the guy in Alameda who did some public art in front of his house that features a cardboard cutout of the President with a knife in his head. Well, the Secret Service were not amused and came to give the guy a visit. ...

So what movies are opening this weekend, the last weekend before the holidays start up? The big one seems to be the new Bond flick, Casino Royale. It's getting good reviews and getting a lot of attention because of it's desire to "restart" the Bond franchise by changing the tone and introducing the "origin myth" as it were in telling how Bond became the Bond, James Bond we all know and love. Frankly, from what we're hearing, the new Bond is all broody and angsty and apparently gets roughed up. Even worse, there's only one femme fatale. In all seriousness, we don't want our Bonds angsty and broody and dark. We want our Bonds making bad jokes and sleeping with tons of hot women and having no problem with violence. What made Sean Connery so badass was because he was the only Bond really to actually look like he was enjoying himself. And if you were James Bond, how could you not be enjoying yourself? ...

John English, the Fairfield councilman who was found with meth and meth paraphernalia in his suitcase, was sentenced 30 days in jail and 4 years probation. He originally claimed that the drugs and pipe were his nephew's, but the nephew later recanted the story. DNA tests subsequently showed Councilman English's DNA on the pipe. English is now claiming that his nephew thought it was a reality TV show setup (ah yes, that new show, "America's Top Meth Heads"). A 15-year-old girl in Milpitas is in a heap of trouble after she confessed that she'd made up a story about being kidnapped by a group of men who tried to sexually assault her, when she was in fact partying across California and Mexico for six weeks. She said she didn't want her mother to know, so she made up the story about being kidnapped when she ran out of cash in Puerto Vallarta. And a guy in San Jose just got charged in federal court, after he attacked two Secret Service agents who happened to be at a Nordstrom Rack store and called him on a fake check he was attempting to pass. When the agents confronted him, the guy bit one agent and kicked the other one in the head. The authorities say he might have been on meth. ...

Hey, did you think that local authorities wouldn't cooperate with federal agents who are out to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries? Think again! Impassioned opinion pieces by Kamala Harris and Board of Supervisor resolutions aside, seems that Lt. Marty Halloran was putting up a police line at the Alternative Relief Co-Op so that agents from the DEA, IRS and Treasury Department could ransack their offices. From Ann Harrison's 'On the Record' blog (she says to......

So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there, we noted that her friend "Nessie Traina," AKA Vanessa Traina, daughter of local romance novelist Danielle Steele, was also listed. She was last spotted at Fashion Week in New York. Of course, the number is a 310 number, which means she's......