Is Newsom back home yet? Of course not. His ego is bruised -- for Gavin, dropping out of the California gubernatorial race is a bit like losing an Oscar, only not nearly as horrifyingly bad -- so he's drowning his sorrows in a little bit of R&R in the U.S.'s newest state.

While he was supposed to address 5,000 developers, lenders, architects at the Urban Land Institute conference yesterday, he bailed. And today? "Mayor Newsom has no public events scheduled."

Stay strong, mayor. Stay strong.

Supe Carmen Chu will be the city's acting mayor until midnight on Sunday.