LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Bike to Work Day in San Francisco is ongoing. Pictured is the ride of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Program Director Andy "The Boss" Thornley, complete with large flag just for today. (Yes, that's the official City and County flag. It's hard to read the three words underneath the bird, but we think they spell out "Pontiac Trans Am".) Looks like Andy's inside City Hall right now pressing his case for cycling in the City.......

Do you think we can have just one day of bicycling that doesn't devolve into some kind of car-smashing riot, please? This Thursday: Bike to Work Day! A day to hop on your bike ... and then gasp and flounder and struggle, because you only ride once a year. Then, if your boss lets you out early, roll up to the Bike Away From Work Party at the Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St @......

Of course we own a bike, and we love it. The way it sits beautifully in our garage, seeing us off in the morning as our car zooms away, and welcoming us back in the evening as we pull up the driveway. Wait, you mean you actually expect us to ride it? What do we look like, circus bears? As Metblogs helpfully reminds us, today's Drive Your Bike to Work Day, a time to......

MattyMatt's bit of cinema verite in regards to Take Your Girlfriend to Work Day seems to be the hottest video in town as Phil Matier (as in Matier & Ross) has designated us as experts in this whole video blogging/YouTube thing. So tune into KPIX Channel 5 sometime around 6:30 (we think) as SFist MattyMatt and SFist Jon appear on TV yet again and play pundit. Extra special bonus: you get to see just how hungover SFist Jon is today and find out what embarrassing thing he did over the weekend that he hopes never, ever appears anywhere online....

Where's Rakim to cut Aaron Peskin's single? The progressively-aligned District 3 representative is widely expected to win another term as the president of the Board of Supervisors in the wake of Newsom's Election Day defeat at the polls (whether Newson chooses to see it as such or not). Even the moderate members of the board agree -- Bevan Dufty thinks Peskin's doing a great job, and even the most-moderate supe Sean Elsbernd (until Ed......

Here's an update on a couple of stories we've been following. -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not enough to override, with the Usual Suspects-- Alioto-Pier, Dufty, Elsbernd, and Ma-- voting no. The next steps are unclear at this point. McGoldrick says he's in negotiations with Gavin to come to some sort of resolution to the initiative but people are skeptical of Gavin's intentions. Maybe we'll have another ballot measure, but apparently this issue has been deemed too important to be left to us. BTW, we're a little confused about the fact that all the pro-bike people keep on saying Gavin vetoed the measure because he's the bitch of the rich. When did neighborhood activists and activists for the disabled and all the other people who came out against the measure suddenly become rich and powerful developers? Anyways, check out this hilarious interview with Gavin on the Bay Guardian's web site, an interview that takes place while Gavin and the reporter are riding bicycles to City Hall on Bike to Work Day. We imagine the reporter and Gavin puffing away, muttering curses at each other underneath their breath and trying desperately not to roll their eyes too much lest they accidentally crash into other bikers. ...

Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only does this once a year. . . . I know a lot of people today because of that bike closure veto [for Golden Gate Park] will want to knock me over." For his pains, he got a free tote bag from the SF Bike Coalition, which sponsored......

In honor of Bike-to-Work Week, we offer a kind suggestion to bicyclists: don't be such fucking morons....