After a brief hiatus last week, we're back to check in with Willie Brown's day to day happenings. Let's see what the Da Mayor has been up to:

In political news, we suspect Willie admits that he doesn't miss running for office, but he does miss the excitement of being attacked all the time - which makes us think he hasn't really been paying attention to this Mayor's race so far because we haven't gone a week without hearing Willie's name hurled at Mayor Lee. If Willie really enjoys the heckling he should show up at the next debate (Like this one on Tuesday, maybe?) and answer some questions himself.

On a related note, Willie discussed how he coached Gavin Newsom out of his shyness: by getting him out on merchant walks and pub crawls. Funny, that sounds familiar.

On Jeff Adachi's entrance in to the race, Willie called the public defender's move "fighting the dragon" - which seems kind of on-the-nose, but we suppose Willie hasn't exactly been one for subtlety lately. For an extra boost on the ranked-choice ballots, Willie suggests Adachi, Mayor Lee and Bevan Dufty all join forces for pension reform. In other words: Adachi's only hope is to sell out on the whole reason he joined the race.

In celebrity-sighting news, Willie ran in to a friend at 1300 on Fillmore: It was TV's Kiefer Sutherland! The 24 star and recovering (maybe) alcoholic gave Willie a great big bear hug right there in the restaurant. Just when you think Willie couldn't have his hands in any more pots, it turns out even Jack Bauer and CTU are in his pocket.

In movie time, Willie escaped from his already distorted reality by screening Cowboys and Aliens, which he says is something like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets Star Wars." He's also a fan of the "classic story" Captain America. Which, you might remember, is the story of a weak art student who accepts stimulus from the government to go punch Hitler in the mouth. Classic! He also enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes: the scene on the Golden Gate Bridge was "worth the price of admission", but more importantly the lead monkey looks like Michael Moore.

Meanwhile, Willie did not enjoy The Devil's Double - a film about a political nobody who gets to live an opulent lifestyle after being handpicked by some powerful people. It's also about the body double for Saddam Hussein's sadistic son. It's violent!

In food news, Willie got to try out the Boxing Room in Hayes Valley, a classy, New Orleans-themed place from the folks behind Absinthe. Willie's special friend Sonya ordered the alligator, which made Da Mayor happy because it was "the closest you're going to get to a Birkin handbag."

After namedropping Perry's again, presumably to meet his monthly quota of Perry's mentions, Willie penned a nice commercial for Wolfgang Puck's Los Angeles holdings Spago, Cut and Chinois. Willie obsessives will remember Da Gourmayor popped in to both of those on another recent trip to Southern California where he may or may not have been filming the pilot of a new TV show.

As if Willie weren't already invested enough in Wolfgang's restaurant collection, the chef told Willie to head back to San Francisco and find some investors to help him rescue Postrio by turning it in to an SF outpost of Cut. So the question is: if we see Wolfgang Puck lurking around Union Square will the progressive foodies get as defensive as the progressive politicos?

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