Well, here we are again with the (virtual) weeklies. [Insert crack about ink-stained old media here.] And we're off.

SF Weekly

This week, SF Weekly treats us to their Summer Guide, which starts off with a list of "obscure" tourist attractions including the Musee Mecanique (not that obscure), Audium (love), and something we really didn't know about: the actual crookedest street in San Francisco, which they insist isn't Lombard, it's Vermont Street between 20th and 22nd. Also, they've got a guide to sports bars that aren't terrible, a rundown of upcoming food festivals, and a piece about Pioneertown, a faux town east of Palm Springs where they have a place called Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace Cantina where Willie Nelson sometimes plays.

Then we have the cover story, in which Joe Eskenazi takes a purposely over-long route from S.F. to L.A. via public transportation that takes 32 hours, and documents it. The intinerary was devised by 24-year-old transit blogger Matt Nelson of CaliforniaStreets, who's apparently obsessed with transit to the point that he wants to waste hours of his life on unnecessary buses. To each his own.