As promised, SFist in fact did not watch the State of the Union address -- though we did catch part of it as we went to stock up on booze at the corner store (we figured they were watching it by the hard liquor in order to drive up sales.) The anti-Bush group The World Can't Wait was pretty busy not waiting, though -- SFist received bulletins all day about various events, including one hilarious email reporting that someone was spelling out a message on Bernal Hill that looked like "BUSH IS TER DOWN." That's right, baby, he's Ter Down! This was apparently repaired shortly afterwards to BUSH STEP DOWN. The day of protests culminated in Union Square, where activists aired the state of the union on a huge screen and banged drums and booed and played trumpets to drown Bush out. The drums looked a little Revolutionary war-like, but that's a minor complaint. We also heard a lovely rendition of the World Can't Wait theme song on KRON 4 News at 11 ("The world can't wait..... the world can't wait....") from an activist whose last name was Makepeace. They then toppled a papier-mache statue of Bush at the end of the protest and everyone went home. Police were watching but made no arrests. If you're so inclined, you should definitely check out KRON 4's video coverage of the event, it was hilarious. The world can't wait.... the world can't wait.... At the actual state of the union, someone else didn't hear the speech either -- Cindy Sheehan, an invited guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), was arrested and hustled out of the building for wearing a t-shirt that said "2,245 and how many more?" Isn't that what the whole speech was about? (Well, that and conserving oil.) Picture of Union Square protest from KRON 4...

Today is the President's State of the Union speech, which basically means staying completely away from the TV or the non-Lindsey Lohan obsessed internets for the night lest we get over-run with a tidal wave of bile that these things cause. We hear this year's speech is going to be a doozy too-- while W. shreds the constitution, all the Republicans in congress will sit back and smoke cigars lit by $100 bills given to them by Jack Abramoff. Which raises the question of what to do? Well, there's always NetFlix, of course, as well as good old TiVo. It's also a good night to go to the movies and while Brokeback Mountain is all too obvious of a choice, not to mention something we've all seen by now, we'd like to suggest the Underworld: Evolution as there's something appropriate about watching a blood-drenched movie featuring both Vampires, Werewolves and Kate Beckinsale in a black leather outfit. Ba Bow! ...

Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San Francisco Chronicle. ....but Ken Garcia doesn't even work there anymore! The Molotov cocktails did no damage to the building, but lit an SFPD officer's shoulder on fire. He was rapidly extinguished, but we can't imagine that improved the mood of the public safety officers any. Plus, we saw on the local news that the cocktails themselves were made out of Crystal Geyser Juice Squeeze bottles. We hope someone at least drank that refreshing lightly-carbonated pink grapefruit spritzer before filling the bottle with gasoline and lighting it. Picture from the commondreams.org site...