Oh, for the love of God. Really? Okay, we'll bite. Ahem: while some of us were going through a chemically-induced bender over the last few days, because that's why God invented the three-day weekend, celebrity couple Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel were flying high as well. According to SF Sentinel (via Spaceref.com): Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R)), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, welcomed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and fiance......

School buses to run on waste grease from local restaurants. [SF Sentinel] 2007, as Chrissy from Newport Harbor: the Real OC might say, is "o-v-e, but the 'r' is not there yet." Totes, dude. Totes. [SFoodie, SFBG, CHOW, Gridskipper, Yelp] "Subprime" is your word of the year, or so says the Gate. [SF Gate] Tiger stuff. (An aside: Big-Cat Expert is perhaps the best job title in the world, ever.) [Examiner, SFBG] New Jersey......

With its umbilical sliced, face slapped, and shivering body wrapped in a toasty blanket, the new Muni double-decker bus has finally arrived. San Francisco Sentinel has the story (as well as a few more images) for you. And we must admit: the buses are not that bad looking. With the little spray of hearts at the tail-end? Not bad at all. Your thoughts? The buses will (temporarily) go into action on December 12. Enjoy......

-- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? Ugh.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch]...

--Gavin Newsom angrily denies Chris Daly's cocaine allegations, calls them "sleazy," and calls for everyone in the Board of Supes to condemn them. Tom Ammiano says he thought it was one of Daly's better speeches. [The Chron (and audio clip), CBS 5 (with video of Daly at the meeting and Newsom's denial), ABC 7 (also with video), Fog City, Beyond Chron, Examiner, SF Sentinel. Watch the video from SFGov here, around item 36.] --Your Two......

--Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Fight at the Metreon! [Chron Culture Blog] --Pat Murphy claims to feel bad about his nemesis Chris Daly getting deposed as chair of the Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee. [SF Sentinel] --Chris Daly takes his reassignment like a man. [Fog City Journal] --Hey! Our Ed Jew coverage goes national! Thanks for the referral, reader DM! [TPMMuckraker.com]......

--They tore down that house everyone's laughing about. --The Niners got San Francisco to cough up money originally intended for parks to go to fixing up Monster Park instead. They're just going to move to Santa Clara anyways, guys! --Mission Bay bores Chron architecture critic John King. --Fiona Ma sponsors legislation to make it easier for, say, Gavin Newsom to change his name to Gavin Newsom-Siebel. --Aaaaaaa-choo! --The SF Sentinel's photo tips. Also, they......

Only five more weeks to go until the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates An Endorsement. Looks like it's not just Lou Seal giving the flippers-up for District 6 candidate Rob Black! Rob just lined up the first big endorsement of the race, splashed on the front page of Monday's Examiner. Unfortunately, the Examiner doesn't seem to have made its endorsements accessible on its webpage, but we've thoughtfully saved it as a......

--Why's Lawrence Wong getting in so much trouble for accidentally crossing a picket line when the Bay Area Reporter did too? --The Stanford Band frets about its future. --The SF hip-hop dancer (Allan) from the first season of So You Think You Can Dance supports Krissy Keefer. --Maggie Lynch compares MUNI to Lemony Snicket. --Skip school, go to jail. --More cops in North Beach. Why aren't there more cops in the Western Addition? --Pat Murphy......

It's our column about the shenanigans in the upcoming District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates An (Alleged) Party Crasher. Remember how we said word on the street was that the mayor was going to make an endorsement in the District 6 race? Well, the streets don't lie -- sure enough, on sunny Saturday, Gavin Newsom took a break from acid-washing his jeans to stop by the Tehama Street Mural (sponsored by Cingular Wireless)......

You know, they have some pretty awesome pictures of Hizzoner Mayor Newsom in the "Mayor's Photo Gallery" page on sfgov.org. We've been dying for an excuse to use this picture for weeks now -- weeks! So the excuse we've finally managed to contrive is that the SF Sentinel has some more pictures of CSI: Plumpjack up, from their afternoon appearance at the Pier 48 pre-1906 quake anniversary festivities, and we wanted an excuse to link......

Last week's winner, the Guardian (which now has no pictures of the current cover on its site for us to use to illustrate this post -- this is a picture from Sonic Reducer): How Tim Redmond set up wifi in his home. Robert Haaland, subject of the latest poorly-scanning Joe O'Donoghue poem, pens an op-ed on the Gap. Background on the (now-averted) school strike. Doesn't Janet Reilly kind of look like Tori Spelling? [picture is......

It's been a bad week for the Republican Party. So bad, in fact, that Cheney shooting a 78 year old man might have been the best thing to happen, if anything to take people's attention away from much more awful stuff. And so with polls sagging, scandals mounting, and bodies dropping, the RNC flashed the bat signal and out to the rescue came Fox News. Cause what rallies the conservative base more? Love of small government and deficit cutting? Bwah. No, it's beating up on wussy, liberal, America-hating, straw-man liberals. Which is why this week Fox News sent out their big guns and went big game hunting in San Francisco, the Quailtard covey of wussy, liberal, America-hating, straw-man liberals. The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news that the Board of Supes don't want a WWII era battleship to be berthed in the Bay, but Hannity was live in SF, parachuted into enemy territory as it were. They were so into it, in fact, they hyped the story all night. ...

We've been dying to debut the new name for this column for weeks now -- weeks! Of COURSE SFist will be covering the District 6 race! This week -- Everyone hates the Marina. The Daly-friendly Beyond Chron reports that Small Business Commissioner and ">columnist for the Daly-unfriendly SF Sentinel Jordanna Thigpen (pictured at right) is sending out feelers about possibly running against Old Daddy Thumbkin, claiming that he's not very environmental and too confrontational. C'mon, what about the time Daly snuck Sierra Clubber Adam Werbach onto the PUC? Not environmental: 0! (but confrontational: 1). Thigpen is an attorney and runs Mask Italia on Chestnut Street, and is active in the Marina Merchants Association. She's previously come out against the San Francisco universal health care plans in 1996 (favoring a federal solution), and helped save a movie theater in the Marina by working with Walgreens. Also, she placed 982th in the 2004 Run to the Far Side. (There is too much information available about people on Google). District 6ers, Thigpen'll be on SF/Unscripted (the show that formerly hosted beloved SFist Jackson) this week, if you're looking for your "anybody" in the "anybody but Daly" category. ...

On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between the commissioners and the executive director, Stefanie Coyote -- whom loyal SFist readers will remember from her previous brouhaha with deposed Treasure Island impresario Tony Hall over the Rent production. So Stefanie gets in a fight with former deputy director Michael Billington......

If you read the Chron in the mornings the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only opening the Business section to read Dilbert, and then idly wondering if maybe you should get into Sudoku), you may have glancingly noticed some articles about Treasure Island administrator Tony Hall in your cruise through the local news. (The SF Sentinel also weighs in here.) What's going on over there? Certainly you're not going to actually read those articles, are you? Well, your source of oversimplified explanations of the news -- SFist Book Reports -- comes to your rescue! So here's what's up. City Controller Ed Harrington says that Tony Hall has put $173,000 of public funds in a private bank account. And that the private bank account is earning less interest than other public city investments. Harrington is calling for an audit of the funds. Hall says all that money was properly reported to the city, and that he's being targeted by enemies, like "the junior staff of the mayor's office." That's it? That's it. You may now return to skimming the paper with a clear conscience! ...