Willie Brown didn't write his usual food column this week, as he is currently on a world tour of communist countries. Instead of dining around town, Willie was being swept around Beijing on a day and a half business trip to the Far East. In Beijing, everyone wanted to know what the big deal was with Herman Cain porking someone other than his wife for 13 years. Willie's answered by bringing up a tired Bill Clinton joke. Other helpful cruoss-cultural analysis from Da Mayor in Beijing: the traffic terrible and the U.S. Embassy is very large.
In other China travel news, Willie reveals that his co-conspirator, "Miss Rose Pak is off to China for her usual post-election vacation", which seems to make him immensely proud of her. His finest achievement to date, it seems, was getting himself out of the spotlight so that the newspapers will stop including him in their lists of San Francisco kingmakers.
While he was out in New York, getting lost looking for the subway, Willie caught Samuel L. Jackson on Broadway in "The Mountaintop." Jackson and Brown are old pals, which actually surprises us less than it probably should, and Willie spent some time backstage with Samuel L. Jackson himself after the show. They discussed the Pelosi family.
Next up: Willie is headed off to Cuba. Adding further credence to the tin-cap theory that Willie is actually just trying to sell San Francisco to the communists. Either that or he's just looking for a good pork sandwich.
