<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[SNL - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/</link><image><url>https://sfist.com/favicon.png</url><title>SNL - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, &amp; Sports</title><link>https://sfist.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 2.12</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:36:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sfist.com/snl/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Video: How San Francisco Made Saturday Night Live This Weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[SNL focused on SF during two of their sketches this weekend, and here they are! (Plus a bonus just for certain commenters.)]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2015/11/23/video_how_san_francisco_made_saturd/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242c8f44ad066cdcf709d6</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[3d printing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew McConaughey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscone Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eve Batey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>

<p>While <a href="http://gothamist.com/tags/saturdaynightlive">our esteemed colleagues at Gothamist ably cover <em>Saturday Night Live</em></a> every Sunday morning, there was a notable local element to <a href="http://gothamist.com/2015/11/22/videos_snl_matthew_mcconaughey_adele.php#photo-1">this weekend's Matthew McConaughey hosted episode</a> that deserves SFist attention, I believe. Our city was involved with not just one, but two of this weekend's sketches, <a href="http://gothamist.com/2015/11/22/videos_snl_matthew_mcconaughey_adele.php#photo-1">both described by Gothamist</a> as "awkward attempts at weirdness." Just like SF, right?</p>

<p>In "Blues Shack," McConaughey plays a white San Franciscan male with some distinctly first world, Bay Area problems (all of which I feel I've heard guys complain about in various bars across the city). Hear his tale of woe here:</p>

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<p>Next up, we had the Moscone North-set "3D Printer Man," in which a crowd of San Francisco conventioneers is presented with the first-ever human being created using a 3D printer. Roy Batty, he is not:</p>

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<p>And finally, while it wasn't set in SF, I certainly though of some of you (not <em>you</em>, of course) when I watched this sketch. If no one's nailed down the Disqus user name "My Long Brown Braid," somebody really should.</p>

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<p><strong>Previously:</strong> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2015/11/22/videos_snl_matthew_mcconaughey_adele.php#photo-1">Adele Steals The Spotlight From Matthew McConaughey On Saturday Night Live</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL Cast Members Breaking, The Supercut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone loves to see the funny folks on SNL (we're looking at you Bill Hader) breaking &#151; i.e. breaking into uncontrollable laughter at their own hilariousness while on live television.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2013/07/25/afternoon_palate_cleanser_snl_cast/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2433fa44ad066cdcfad678</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afternoon Palate Cleanser]]></category><category><![CDATA[oops]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[videos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Barmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:45:31 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/07/hader-samberg-breaking-thumb-640xauto-800787.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/07/hader-samberg-breaking-thumb-640xauto-800787.jpg" alt="Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL Cast Members Breaking, The Supercut"><p><object width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/kfFsz1QdEAs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US">
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<p>Everyone loves to see the funny folks on SNL (we're looking at you Bill Hader) breaking  i.e. breaking into uncontrollable laughter at their own hilariousness while on live television. Here, for your afternoon viewing, a 4-minute supercut of all your favorites, dating back to the glory days of Gilda Radner, breaking. And man, Hader and Fallon were the worst! [<a href="http://laughingsquid.com/supercut-of-saturday-night-live-cast-members-breaking-character/">Laughing Squid</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevius Chimes In On Bacon Bacon Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[He's a little late to this party, but <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Bacon-Bacon-close-raises-quite-a-stink-4532968.php">C.W. Nevius weighs in</a> on <a href="http://sfist.com/2...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2013/05/21/nevius_chimes_in_on_bacon_bacon_con/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24257244ad066cdcf36475</guid><category><![CDATA[SF Restaurants, Food & Drink]]></category><category><![CDATA[bacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[bacon bacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[c.w. nevius]]></category><category><![CDATA[nevius]]></category><category><![CDATA[NIMBY watch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Television]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Barmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:42 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/03/baconbacon-thebird-thumb-640xauto-780635.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/03/baconbacon-thebird-thumb-640xauto-780635.jpg" alt="Nevius Chimes In On Bacon Bacon Controversy"><p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">  </span></p>

<p><br>
He's a little late to this party, but <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Bacon-Bacon-close-raises-quite-a-stink-4532968.php">C.W. Nevius weighs in</a> on <a href="http://sfist.com/2013/05/16/delicious_bacon_aroma_upsets_haight.php">the Bacon Bacon controversy</a>, following <a href="http://sfist.com/2013/05/19/bacon_bacon_snl.php"><em>SNL</em> acknowledging</a> that it is, in fact, quite funny. </p>

<p>Nevius, ever quick to point out when NIMBYs and San Francisco politicians overstep their bounds (in his opinion) and impinge on the free market, starts by dissing Amy Poehler, et al., by saying the SNL joke was "a pretty weak one." But nonetheless, he's on board with criticizing the situation, and he delves a bit further then anyone else has into the back-and-forth that's happened between neighbor and bacon-loving business: </p>

<blockquote>In January 2012, owner Jim Angelus took over an abandoned store front in the Haight and opened the restaurant the same month without the proper permits.

<p>A neighbor filed a discretionary review appeal a year later. That triggered an automatic hearing before the Planning Commission. Discretionary reviews can be expensive, time consuming and discouraging. In this case, Angelus said he was well aware that the ventilation needed to be upgraded, and he was ready to do it.</p>
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<p>The situation, though, is complicated by the fact that the attorney for the neighbor, with whom he spoke, now says that they're not trying to shut down the business at all, and said he thought they had an agreement in place last Friday regarding the bacon-smell-filtering ventilation  it's known as a "scrubber" and most restaurants have to get one, especially if they're using a grill or wood-burning fire. Angelus is now choosing to wait until the July hearing and make sure he gets his approval before he continues operating, and Nevius finds at least one other neighbor who clearly wants Bacon Bacon to stay closed.</p>

<p>ANYWAY, the smells of bacon wafting through the neighborhood are legitimately offensive, as it turns out, to at least one health inspector, Richard Lee, who seems to be Nevius's main target here. Lee says that neighbors' complaints have a real basis, because "You may like [bacon smells] for a couple of minutes, but not day and night."</p>

<p>The national passion for bacon, though, may end up saving this place. And a petition to save it <a href="http://www.baconbaconsf.com/save-bacon-bacon">already has 2,600 signatures</a>, and counting.</p>

<p>In other news, it looks like Nevius is fighting to keep his column outside <a href="http://sfist.com/2013/03/25/san_francisco_chronicle_cowers_behi.php">the dreaded <em>Chronicle</em> paywall</a>, so that people will actually see it. (Although it's <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Bacon-Bacon-close-raises-quite-a-stink-4532968.php">also behind the paywall</a>, too.) More on that later.</p>

<p>[<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Bacon-Bacon-close-raises-quite-a-stink-4532968.php">Nevius/SFGate</a>]</p>

<p><strong><a href="http://sfist.com/tags/baconbacon">All previous Bacon Bacon coverage on SFist</a>.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video: Bacon Bacon Featured On <em>Saturday Night Live</em>]]></title><description><![CDATA[In addition to the all-too-brief return of Amy Poehler at the news desk, we were delightfully surprised to see <a href="http://sfist.com/tags/baconbacon">Bacon Bacon</a> on <em>Saturday Night Live</em...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2013/05/19/bacon_bacon_snl/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242e1244ad066cdcf7d276</guid><category><![CDATA[SF Restaurants, Food & Drink]]></category><category><![CDATA[amy poehler]]></category><category><![CDATA[bacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[bacon bacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Television]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 08:30:50 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/05/bacon_bacon_snl_1-thumb-640xauto-790980.jpeg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2013/05/bacon_bacon_snl_1-thumb-640xauto-790980.jpeg" alt="Video: Bacon Bacon Featured On <em>Saturday Night Live</em>"><p></p>

<p>In addition to the all-too-brief return of Amy Poehler at the news desk, we were delightfully surprised to see <a href="http://sfist.com/tags/baconbacon">Bacon Bacon</a> on <em>Saturday Night Live</em>'s <em>Weekend Update</em>. The Cole Valley bacon joint, if you recall, had to <a href="http://sfist.com/2013/05/16/delicious_bacon_aroma_upsets_haight.php">close last week due neighbors complaining about the delicious yet persistent bacon aroma</a>. This prompted the scribes at <em>SNL</em> to come up with a decent bit about cops and the scent of pig meat. </p>

<p>Behold:</p>

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<p>How did the woman who brought us <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDETG6SojnY">Handi-Off</a> turn into this <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/idUS64894523920111228">paranoid</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/victoria-jackson-slams-glee-showbiz-tonight_n_838862.html">confused</a> pile of a human being? Who can say. Only the voices that swim inside her head know for sure. But she sure is zany these days. Take, for example, the most recent bout of logic diarrhea she shat on <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=7BKYKok9d5g">Politichicks</a></em>, her painful YouTube show: <em>"I just went to a briefing in Washington DC, across the street from the Capitol, at the Longworth building at 8:30 am two days ago and it changed my life. For six hours, I saw pictures and names and dates and facts and Islamic law books and Korans, Surahs for six hours and they proved to me...<strong>that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our highest positions in government and this is serious.</strong>"</em></p>

<p>And funny. And sad. And wildly inaccurate. Because she's talking about President Barack Obama. </p>

<p>[<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/27/victoria-jackson-muslim-brotherhood-fbi_n_1170790.html?ref=entertainment">HuffPo</a>, via <a href="http://dlisted.com/2011/12/28/victoria-jacksons-still-crazy-asshole">DListed</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa McCarthy's Ranch Dressing Taste Tester]]></title><description><![CDATA[Granted, if you're above the coveted 18-to-25 age bracket, and used to another season of not-ready-for-primetime players, you're almost required to claim that you've fallen out of favor with <em>Satur...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2011/10/03/afternoon_palate_cleanser_melissa_m/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24236244ad066cdcf24d66</guid><category><![CDATA[SF Restaurants, Food & Drink]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afternoon Palate Cleanser]]></category><category><![CDATA[celebrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><category><![CDATA[ranch dressing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:56:50 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2011/10/melissaisamazing-thumb-640xauto-663462.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2011/10/melissaisamazing-thumb-640xauto-663462.jpg" alt="Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa McCarthy's Ranch Dressing Taste Tester"><p></p>

<p>Granted, if you're above the coveted 18-to-25 age bracket, and used to another season of not-ready-for-primetime players, you're almost required to claim that you've fallen out of favor with <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. However, recent Emmy Award winner Melissa McCarthy <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/282449/saturday-night-live-melissa-mccarthy">killed it on <em>SNL</em></a> this past weekend. <a href="http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00044138.html">And how</a>. Overcoming a tad of ho-hum writing, McCarthy blew a fresh shot of oxygen into the show. Her best sketch (out of many) had to be Linda, the Hidden Valley Ranch taste tester. (Also? A seamless example of product placement within a show.) We've watched it 7590326654 times since Saturday. More or less. Enjoy.</p>

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<p>GLAAD (The Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an organization that hands out awards to straight people for being famous) is upset at a recently aired skit on <em>Saturday Night Live</em>, one that poked fun at pre-op transgender people. </p>

<p>In a press release sent out Monday, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/tellsnl">GLAAD said</a>:</p>

<blockquote>This weekend, NBC's long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live decided to make its transgender viewers the punch line of a joke. <strong>The sketch was a fake commercial for an estrogen product, intended to help transgender women who are in the process of transitioning. But there were no "jokes" per se; all the laughs came from the commercial's offensive and dehumanizing portrayals of transgender women.</strong> By telling its audience that transgender women should be laughed at and ridiculed, NBC contributed to an environment that sees transgender people subjected to near-universal discrimination in the workplace and an environment in which at least one transgender person is murdered every month.

<p>Demand that NBC apologize to its transgender viewers and all of those who were deeply offended by seeing the lives of transgender people turned into a punch line - and tell the network to remove this dangerous segment from its website, from Hulu, and from any future reruns of this episode.</p>
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<p>Watch the view below.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian Wilson To Host <em>Saturday Night Live</em>?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following in the footsteps of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0507/Thanks-to-grassroots-Facebook-campaign-actress-Betty-White-to-host-Saturday-Night-Live">Betty White</a>, G...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2010/11/04/brian_wilson_to_host_saturday_night/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24270f44ad066cdcf43596</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[brian wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[celebrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:25:07 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/11/sowhatwhocare-thumb-640xauto-568655.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2010/11/sowhatwhocare-thumb-640xauto-568655.jpg" alt="Brian Wilson To Host <em>Saturday Night Live</em>?"><p></p>

<p>Following in the footsteps of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0507/Thanks-to-grassroots-Facebook-campaign-actress-Betty-White-to-host-Saturday-Night-Live">Betty White</a>, Giants star Brian Wilson (who, we should point out, is just as stupendous as many of this teammates!) might get the chance to host <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. That is, if a newly created "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/bweeze?v=wall">Brian Wilson Should Host SNL" Facebook page</a> has its way. As of Thursday, over 4,000 people "like" this idea. And, sure, it would be keen. We "like" it as well because Wilson could pull it off. However, as any regular SNL viewer knows, sports personalities typically make for the most cringe-inducing episodes.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day Around the Bay]]></title><description><![CDATA[<ul><li><a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/17/tieker_attack_u.php">Tiger attack</a> victims "yelled" at Tatiana. [<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/17/BAEIUH4B9.DTL&tsp=...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/01/17/day_around_the_172/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2422aa44ad066cdcf1eaed</guid><category><![CDATA[misc]]></category><category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[day around the bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[day bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judah Chronicles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Main Library]]></category><category><![CDATA[N Judah]]></category><category><![CDATA[N Judah Chronicles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Hartman]]></category><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><category><![CDATA[SF Main Library]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[tatiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Snitch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victoria]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:50:07 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry142930_thumb-thumb-640xauto-190092.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<ul>
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<a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/17/tieker_attack_u.php">Tiger attack</a> victims "yelled" at Tatiana. [<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/17/BAEIUH4B9.DTL&amp;tsp=1">SFGate</a>]</li>
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SF Main Library re-opened its first floor. We had no idea that is was closed. Still, yay! [<a href="http://www.sfciviccenter.blogspot.com/2008/01/library-makeover.html">CCBlog</a>]</li>
<li>Evacuating together. Aw. (Wasn't this an <em>SNL</em> commercial parody ages ago? With Phil Hartman and Victoria Jackson? Also: we're old.) [<a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/01/how_to_save_your_marriage_go_p.php">The Snitch</a>]</li>
<li>Staph infection hysteria is the new AIDS hysteria. So retro. [<a href="http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/01/the_staph_sensation.html">SFBG</a>]</li>
<li>Last night's gruesome <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/17/murderous_njuda.php">N Judah Municide</a>. [<a href="http://www.njudahchronicles.com/2008/01/all_of_this_has_happened_befor.html">N Judah Chronicles</a>]</li>
<li>You know who's down with <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/17/obama_kicks_wit.php">Barack Obama</a>? Your mother. [<a href="http://www.examiner.com/a-1164915~Obama_touts_plan_for_working_mothers.html">Examiner</a>]</li>
<li>Duffy's (<a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/09/your_new_wateri.php">formerly known as the Barleycorn</a>) looks pretty sharp so far. [<a href="http://sf.eater.com/archives/2008/01/17/eaterwire_luisa_breaks_ground.php">Eater</a>]</li>
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  <br>
An SFist reader sent us these mildly NSFW shots he snapped up at two storefront windows in a place he calls "Omaha, Nebraska." Strange. </p>

<p><em>Another shot, one going out to all you fine heterosexual males and randy dykes out there, after the jump.</em><br>
</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFist Tonight]]></title><description><![CDATA[-- <a href="http://www.willpowermusic.com">hey willpower</a> at <a href="www.myspace.com/glitterboxtheparty">Glitterbox</a>: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), ...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/08/17/sfist_tonight_74/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242b1844ad066cdcf64b26</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[cat]]></category><category><![CDATA[cat club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category><category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comedy Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[contest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daily Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[dance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Hammond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davies Symphony Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[DJs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drag King Contest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eighth Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[SF Events]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fifth Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Happy Hour]]></category><category><![CDATA[In LA]]></category><category><![CDATA[LA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Black]]></category><category><![CDATA[Market Theater]]></category><category><![CDATA[murder]]></category><category><![CDATA[R&B]]></category><category><![CDATA[running]]></category><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Symphony Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[theater]]></category><category><![CDATA[tonight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Van Ness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:47:17 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry120339_thumb-thumb-640xauto-85052.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry120339_thumb-thumb-640xauto-85052.jpg" alt="SFist Tonight"><p>-- <a href="http://www.willpowermusic.com">hey willpower</a> at <a href="https://sfist.com/2007/08/17/sfist_tonight_74/www.myspace.com/glitterboxtheparty">Glitterbox</a>: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&amp;B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk, and electro well into the morning hours. At least until 3 a.m., anyway. Starts at 9 p.m. at <a href="http://www.catclubsf.com">Cat Club</a>, 1190 Folsom (at Eighth Street).</p>

<p>-- <a href="http://www.darrellhammond.com">Darrell Hammond</a>: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=jiqLSVDzIME">SNL comic</a> comes to SF. He goes on at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. at <a href="http://cobbscomedy.com/">Cobb's Comedy Club</a>, 915 Columbus (at Lombard); <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=xxx&amp;query=search&amp;interface=ticketweb&amp;newhps=1&amp;search=darrell%2Bhammond">$35</a>.</p>

<p>-- <a href="http://www.lexingtonclub.com/events/Aug2007.html">Good Boy, Bad Boi and Good Girl, Bad Grrl Cocktail Hour(s)</a>: In anticipation of tomorrow's <a href="http://www.sfdragkingcontest.com/">Drag King Contest</a>, head over to this get-smashed-on-the-cheap happy hour(s). Between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., $1 margaritas; and between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., $1 shots of tequila. <a href="http://www.sfdragkingcontest.com/bios.html">Drag King royalty</a> and many drunk dykes will be there. So should you. 9 p.m. at <a href="http://www.lexingtonclub.com">The Lexington</a>, 3463 19th Street (at Mission); free.</p>

<p>-- <em><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/20/DDGCQQHI4B1.DTL">Eavesdropper</a></em>: In LA's longest-running play, a party crasher eavesdrops from behind a shower curtain on several party guests using the can, one of which involves a murder. Zoinks, indeed. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at <a href="http://www.offmarkettheater.com/">Stage 250 @ Off-Market Theater</a>, 965 Mission (at Fifth Street); <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/16087">$15</a>.</p>

<p>-- <a href="http://www.lewisblack.net">Lewis Black</a>: No longer just for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky">Stravinsky</a> and SF society shrews, our awesome symphony hall also hosts political comedian and occasional <a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml%20"><em>Daily Show</em></a> star, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=FwZ-I-bJJwc">Lewis Black</a>. Starts at 8 p.m. at <a href="http://www.sfsymphony.org">Davies Symphony Hall</a>, 201 Van Ness (at Grove); $55.50-$75.50<br>
</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFist Tonight]]></title><description><![CDATA[-- <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamgirls_(film)">Dreamgirls</a></em>: Jennifer Hudson's performance as Effie White won her an Academy Award, and her end of Act I nervous breakdown (<a h...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/08/03/sfist_tonight_61/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24237044ad066cdcf2546b</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Academy Award]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act I]]></category><category><![CDATA[And I]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Samberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benefit]]></category><category><![CDATA[berkeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[breakdown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Castro Theatre]]></category><category><![CDATA[cats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category><category><![CDATA[dance]]></category><category><![CDATA[DJs]]></category><category><![CDATA[film]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot Rod]]></category><category><![CDATA[I Am]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Market Streets]]></category><category><![CDATA[movies]]></category><category><![CDATA[music]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hartlaub]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rose]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category><category><![CDATA[tonight]]></category><category><![CDATA[valencia street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yo La Tengo]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:44:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry118411_thumb-thumb-640xauto-86678.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry118411_thumb-thumb-640xauto-86678.jpg" alt="SFist Tonight"><p>-- <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamgirls_(film)">Dreamgirls</a></em>: Jennifer Hudson's performance as Effie White won her an Academy Award, and her end of Act I nervous breakdown (<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=E8gqk0Elsnc">"And I Am Telling You"</a>) blew audiences to the back wall of the theatre. . She is <em>the</em> reason to see this movie. It also features <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anika_Noni_Rose">Anika Noni Rose</a>, a former A.C.T. student. Check out this musical loosely based on the rise of the Supremes tonight at 7 p.m. at the <a href="http://www.castrotheatre.com">Castro Theatre</a>, Castro and Market Streets; $9.50.</p>

<p>-- <a href="https://sfist.com/2007/08/03/sfist_tonight_61/www.yolatengo.com">Yo La Tengo</a>: Indie! Indie! Indie! Friday! Friday! Friday! Come catch these indie-rock cats (along with <a href="http://citay.net/">Citay</a>) at <a href="https://sfist.com/2007/08/03/sfist_tonight_61/www.kusf.org">KUSF</a>'s 30th Anniversary Benefit at 9 p.m. at <a href="http://www.bimbos365club.com/">Bimbo's 365</a>, 1025 Columbus; $25</p>

<p>-- <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787475"><em>Hot Rod</em></a>: SNL cast member/boy toy and Berkeley native <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Samberg">Andy Samberg's</a> new film gets a glowing review from <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/DDIERBUF52.DTL&amp;type=movies">Peter Hartlaub</a>. Why not check it out? <a href="http://sfgate.com/eguide/movies/playing/">Opens all across the Bay Area today</a>.</p>

<p>-- <a href="http://pics.feen.com/dorienatbrasstax">"Brass Tax"</a>: This quaint and creative nightclub presents DJs Fred Funk, Goldilox, Loose Beats, and Tung busting out dance floor-friendly house, breaks, and electro beats. Bonus: one of the few remaining douche bag-free venues on Valencia Street! Music starts at 9:30 p.m. at <a href="http://www.amnesiathebar.com/">Amnesia</a>, 835 Valencia; $5.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkley vs. the Bay Area]]></title><description><![CDATA[We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area.  This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said a number of <a hre...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2007/05/02/barkley_vs_the_bay_area/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242f8344ad066cdcf89884</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[basketball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category><category><![CDATA[charles barkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chron]]></category><category><![CDATA[City]]></category><category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[contest]]></category><category><![CDATA[De La Fuente]]></category><category><![CDATA[fun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Golden State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ignacio De La Fuente]]></category><category><![CDATA[love]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA]]></category><category><![CDATA[nba playoffs]]></category><category><![CDATA[News+Sports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland City Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[people]]></category><category><![CDATA[photos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Enemy]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Area Sports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will Durst]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 13:06:27 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tkix60xjUC8">
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<p>We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area.  This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said a number of <a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_5791632">bad</a>, <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_5791258">bad things</a> about the area.  Among other things, he's said <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_5798814"> this</a> about the Bay Area:  "It's the dumping ground of people who can't afford to live in L.A."  And this: "You know, we should take the show on the road. For the next game, we should go to hell - I mean, go to Golden State."  And then there's this: "I would rather stay on Alcatraz than San Francisco or Oakland.''   He also talked trash about <a href="http://origin.marinij.com/sports/ci_5786856"> Sausalito </a>.  Sausalito!</p>

<p><a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/warriors/detail?blogid=39&amp;entry_id=16009">Cue</a> <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_5784990">outrage</a>.  Apparently, signs making fun of the ex-Mound of Rebound have been all the rage at the Oracle.</p>

<p>Now we know this whole basketball thing is new to most people here, but here's the thing about Barkley:  never take anything he says seriously.  Ever.  He's always joking around, which is why everyone loves him.  He's one of the few people on the planet that has made it so they could pretty much say anything and get away with it.  So if he's busting on the Bay Area, he's just kidding around.  It's with love, as they say.</p>

<p>Which hasn't stopped people from sending in nasty letters or writing columns about it.  Over on the Chron, C.W. Nevius <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/01/MNGQUPIKI21.DTL">has been having fun with it</a>, getting quotes from Ignacio De La Fuente, president of the Oakland City Council and Will Durst.  Nevius (who seems to understand exactly that all of this is silly) even called for a <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=18">photoshop contest</a> for people to put Charles in photos that tweak him a bit.  Some of them are funny, some of them definitely not, but most of them don't even come close to the brilliance that is <a href="http://www.fark.com/">Fark.com's </a>Photoshop contest.</p>

<p>We would actually show some of the Photoshop entries, but instead, we're going to use all of this as an excuse to play one of our favorite SNL bits ever, of Barkley playing Barney in a 1 on 1 basketball game.<br>
</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mighty Shearer]]></title><description><![CDATA[We think <a href="http://www.harryshearer.com">Harry Shearer</a> has one smart publicist. His book tour for <a href="http://www.bookshopwestportal.com"><em>Not Enough Indians</em></a> hits Jewish Comm...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2006/12/08/a_mighty_shearer/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2425ba44ad066cdcf3883f</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[A Mighty Wind]]></category><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[For Your Consideration]]></category><category><![CDATA[friends]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Shearer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Benny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jewish Community Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><category><![CDATA[media]]></category><category><![CDATA[movies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politically Incorrect]]></category><category><![CDATA[radio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Simpsons]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spinal Tap]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Simpsons]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wednesday]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Ladd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:46:08 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry85563_thumb-thumb-640xauto-112538.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry85563_thumb-thumb-640xauto-112538.jpg" alt="A Mighty Shearer"><p>It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258">This is Spinal Tap</a>, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A Mighty Wind, The Right Stuff, The Truman Show), voice work (<a href="http://www.thesimpsons.com">The Simpsons</a>, hello!) and more. He started acting at the age of seven. Shearer quipped, "I don't eat lunch," which must be the only way he takes care of all that business.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsweek Calls Us Loony]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week Newsweek hops on the "<a href="http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/10/18/bill_oreilly_spreads_the_love.php">San Francisco Values</a>" bandwagon <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15781924/s...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2006/11/20/newsweek_calls_us_loony/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24305a44ad066cdcf8fd7c</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bay Guardian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burning Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[church]]></category><category><![CDATA[comments]]></category><category><![CDATA[commercials]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category><category><![CDATA[fun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italian]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayor McDreamy]]></category><category><![CDATA[naked]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nestor Makhno]]></category><category><![CDATA[News+Sports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Night]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[people]]></category><category><![CDATA[SF Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Franciscan]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco Values]]></category><category><![CDATA[satire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[SNL]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tommi Avicolli Mecca]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:30:42 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry83310_thumb-thumb-640xauto-114556.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry83310_thumb-thumb-640xauto-114556.jpg" alt="Newsweek Calls Us Loony"><p>It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine.  But why, once again, are we bringing it up?  Because by 2008, every Democrat will be so tied to San Francisco that Barrack Obama will have to hold a press conference to deny he ever went to Trannyshack and commercials will run against John Edwards accusing him of getting naked and covering himself in mud at Burning Man.  </p>

<p>Anyways, you could read the article yourself, but here's the shorter version:</p>

<p>-You never hit it big in politics until they <a href="http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/11/14/lets_try_this_again.php">make fun of you</a> on "Saturday Night Live."  That is when people watched SNL.<br>
-Pelosi is "poised" which is another euphemism for never not smiling despite how uncomfortable the situation is.  Of course, that could be the botox<br>
-We're not just "loony" but "ripe for satire" and hey, that's our job.<br>
-Case in point, us calling for Bush's impeachment and the whole JROTC thing.  Good thing this article was written before the whole "<a href="http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/11/19/make_love_and_not_war.php">whack off for world peace</a>" thing<br>
-The truth is we're actually a bunch of tech geek/dot.com millionaires to be and <a href="http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/macchron.htm">Nestor Makhno</a>, where did you go to?<br>
-San Francisco is just like Baltimore (!)<br>
-Bevan calls Pelosi "pragmatic," the Bay Guardian calls her a "sell-out",  Tommi Avicolli Mecca calls her both not very liberal and a kiss-ass, while John Burton calls her "not a kook" but an "Italian-Catholic grandmother who goes to church every f-----g Sunday."<br>
-Gavin has flecks of grey in "his famous pompadour".<br>
-Pelosi doesn't come off as being one of the "loony left" as she seems to rise above it.  Never actually being seen in San Francisco helps.<br>
-Gavin isn't a big fan of the JROTC decision.  Like rolling his eyes and visibly squirming displeasure.  </p>

<p>And finally, we leave the last word to Mayor McDreamy himself: "We have to work through the clichés. But then I can’t wait to showcase the real virtues of this city. The rest of the country should be so lucky."  Ah, said like a true San Franciscan-- when in doubt, just point out how beautiful it is here.  Because, well, that usually does shut everyone up (we know, we've done it many times before).</p>

<p>You know, we're okay with the article.  We can take it.  But the thing that bugs us the most, the worst thing they said, was not about our politics or our attitude, it's this:  they compare us to Baltimore.  Baltimore!</p>

<p>Good heavens.</p>

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