San Francisco's erstwhile mayor managed to mostly keep himself out of trouble this week. The noted 49ers fan had zero words of good luck for our boys in the NFL playoffs, but he did have plenty to say about embattled sheriff and accused wife beater Ross Mirkarimi. Determined to beat us over the head with his explanation of how domestic abuse works, Willie says, "In a case of domestic violence, there is no presumption of innocence, at least not in the court of public opinion."

Which is true, of course. If Internet comment sections are any indication (and why shouldn't they be?) even Mirkarimi voters are turning on the guy. And anyway, nobody wanted to hear the whole, this is "a private matter" deal.

Speaking of publicly elected officials that Willie frankly doesn't care about, the mayors of LA and Atlanta answered Willie's invite to Ed Lee's swearing-in the other day. While walking back to the Four Seasons from City Hall after the coronation, some guy in a car apparently pulled a gun on the Atlanta mayor and his entourage. The gun-wielding guy apparently just laughed and drove off. Willie, recounting the story with his typical aloofness simply responded: "What a town."

In food news, Willie likes Per Diem, recently opened in the Financial District. He likes it, but "you can't get in," he says. So don't bother unless you're Willie Brown, we guess. Willie also dropped in to Charles Phan's Wo Hing General Store on Valencia where he found that, "the table top eating space is extremely small." He neglected to comment on their lack of tablecloths.

In this week's most crushing disappointment, we apparently failed to charm Da Mayor enough to make an appearance in his Ed Lee Banquet recap. After throwing the party for 440 people (140 more than he planned), a "Chinese American woman" reportedly explained to Willie that his seating arrangement was bad luck in the Chinese tradition. Eight is a much better number, apparently, but even Willie Brown couldn't summon eight hundred people who like him enough to join him for $17 dollar martinis and Garden Court Biscuits.