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" stickers are on the front page of cnn.com! So are you proudly sporting a red sticker? How was your voting experience this beautiful primary Super Duper Wowie Zowie Tuesday? Any good stories to pass along?

(Before we begin, we should point out that all of this rain is very good for us. That said, it is our God-given right as Californians to go clinically insane over the slightest change in weather patterns. So: %@#%^W$&^&!)

• At about 8:00pm we saw three green flashes like lightning in the western sky. Then we heard sirens from from our local fire station (26th & anza) and other stations close by. Anyone know what happened?
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We do not -- are you listening carefully, Jennifer? -- believe that Gavin has left the most enchanting, pristine, and hopelessly 7x7-ish Siebel. (Believe us, you do not want to fuck with her when it comes to this, for lack of a better word, crap.) But let's throw this out for shits and giggles, shall we? We receive a lot of whimsical emails here at SFist HQ. Take, for example, this one from an...

And so, with today being the last home game of the season, this will be the last chance for Barry and his fans to bask in each other's adulations. But over here at SFist HQ (located in some South of Market sweat shop conveniently located close enough to Tres Agave to be easily be bribed with margaritas by Brock whenever he wants us to post), there will be no adulation from us. We will be giving no tribute.

Fog City Journal is reporting that Matt Gonzalez has been in talks with a campaign manager, Nicole Derse, about running. We're all guessing it's for Mayor but who knows with Matt? We've heard speculation that he might be going for Kamala's job. Or maybe he's doing his patented "wait for the right moment" thing to try and snag a spot on "American Idol?" We hear his rendition of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" is pretty amazing.

So we're moving up, media wise, as our little story about Peter Ragone and his sock puppet (now officially dubbed "SFistGate") will be airing sometime a little after six on ABC 7. How big is this story? Dan Noyes is giving it the special I-Team treatment. Actually, we know enough of this story to know it's going to be a good one.

As we mentioned earlier, those winds from last night's storm were awfully loud and when the wind is awfully loud, that means they're awfully strong. Like between 40-50 MPH strong. We're actually a little surprised we still have power as usually the power goes out at SFist HQ if there's even a mild gust. But while we still have power, there are plenty of people who don't have any right now. According to the latest news, about 52,000 people around the Bay Area are just this very minute wondering what one does without cable TV and the internet. This includes about 17,000 in the Santa Cruz and Monterey county areas and about 1,400 here in San Francisco.

We've always wondered what would happen if there was a power outage somewhere in Silicon Valley. Would the stock market crash? Would we not be able to surf porn? Would we no longer be able to download "Buffy" reruns over iTunes? Well, we're about to find out as there's a blackout in one of the hearts of Silicon Valley, that being San Mateo County.

SFist Rita has been going on and on about the District 6 City Life Supervisor Candidate Forum, or, as we refer to it at SFist HQ, "Everybody Hates Chris: Special Debate Edition!"

In media news, looks like Google got caught with their Craigslist-killer pants down over the weekend when their new database system was accidentally revealed to the public. Their shiny, baggy, flowing pants. Tom Foremski talks to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster about all things classified ad.

It's vaguely embarrassing to have to admit to you that there was definitely a general buzz of excitement at SFist HQ when SFist Jon found out that counterPULSE Theater was staging a live-action version of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode, "Once More With Feeling." Set for performances this weekend and next, tickets sold out pretty much immediately and geeks of all stripes (musical theater geeks, comic book geeks, Star Trek geeks, Joss Whedon geeks, and your everyday run of the mill geeks) began lovingly sheathing their precious original tickets in durable plastic covers to preserve forever. Well, where geeks go, lawyers are soon to follow -- last week, counterPULSE got an angry letter from Fox TV's attorneys, demanding that they cancel all the shows or face a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit. Feeling as if they had no choice, counterPULSE has now cancelled all the Buffy shows (which they are now referring to as "the Halloween shows," or the "Uffy" shows). Fox is taking the position that it alone, and not some namby-pamby San Francisco theater group, has the right to profit from Buffy-related activities. counterPULSE has one last stake left in its back pocket, though -- Joss Whedon himself has apparently told Fox that he has no objection to the staging of the show, and counterPULSE has sent this along to Fox for consideration. Given the number of people whose rights would need to be cleared by tomorrow, though, we're not optimistic that this Buffy's going to be able save the universe this time. (On the bright side, collectors, you won't actually have to remove the ticket from the protective plastic sleeve you placed it in, and it won't be ripped at the door!) Picture of the Buffy musical soundtrack. Dear Fox: We believe the use of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER-related trademarks and copyrights in the context of this informational newspost constitutes permissible fair use. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Here at SFist HQ, we were excited when we heard that Friend of SFist Eddie was going to go ahead with his plan (first rumored at SXSW) to give WebZine a kick start. In the last few months we've gotten drunk at many meetings, put together a panel, traded buttloads of email and spent most of our time thinking about the parties (that's how roll).

As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And you know who we love the most? No, not Jon Carroll. No, not Ken Garcia. We love Bad Reporter!!! God, we love Bad Reporter! Marry us, Don Asmussen!! Who else can monitor the state of San Francisco hair gel politics so trenchantly? Who else could draw Dick Cheney's pottymouth with such an adorable snarl of the lip? Maria Shriver's cheekbones! Gavin and Kimberly on the rug!! FROM WHAT SICK WELLSPRING DO YOUR GENIUS IDEAS ORIGINATE????? We can only stare, awed and envious, at the heights of brilliance to which Mr. Asmussen reaches on his always-changing publication schedule, and then, silently, move down the back page of Datebook to read the new Dear Abby's advice. ("Have you considered seeing a therapist?" It's always "have you considered seeing a therapist.")

As you may have noticed, things have started to wind-down at SFist HQ. That's because a lot of us are back in the hinterlands visiting with family, family-in-law, potential family-in-law and family-in-law-if-the-law-allowed. Oh, and our best friend, Mr. James Beam. So until the new year, we'll be taking it easy with the posting. It's hard to type when you've got a turkey leg in one hand, a drink in the other and a relative talking about how succesful your cousin is and why can't you be like him?

SFist's pals at the San Francisco Chronicle are good friends to have. We hear the hot news first, we get thrilling behind the scenes gossip, and one time was saw Sharon Stone in person.