Please welcome SFist's newest feature: Boycott Blotter. This feature is designed to let you know about what you shouldn't be buying, doing, attending, watching, or thinking about in the name of justice -- or, in most cases, in the name of public intoxication while jogging with your dick hanging out.
BAY TO BREAKERS: Citizens for the Preservation of Bay 2 Breakers want you to boycott the annual jiggling boob fest. Why? Because B2B's new rules go against "San Francisco values." (An aside: You know what else goes against San Francisco values? Using the term "San Francisco values.") As of yesterday, "more than 15,000 citizens had signed a Web petition vowing to boycott race registration." (Oh no, not a petition!) Angry citizen Stuart Schuffman tells Associated Press, "It's kind of the flavor of San Francisco ... If you can't be naked running around the streets here, where can you?"
Touche, Schuffman. Touche.
FRENCH TOURISM: A small but growing touristic boycott of San Francisco is underway by the French. Allegedly. It has to do with the Hugues de la Plaza murder/suicide. (If you recall, SFPD closed the case, claiming the one-time Hayes Valley resident and French native repeatedly stabbed himself to death.)
SFist received a crazy rant yesterday from someone (who failed to give us their name), asking for "a critical mass appeal for a touristic boycott on SF." He or she goes on to say: