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The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

The Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

Everything in Its Place

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

Tattoo You

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

With a Bullitt

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

Marin Republicans love them some Sarah Palin

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

If Gavin Newsom were born to Sarah Palin ...

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

S.F. Merced Branch Library Rapidly Regressing Back to Nature

All Photos | Joe EskenaziThe Merced Branch Library returns to the jungle from whence it came...Only a month after closing its doors for a renovation and seismic upgrade, the Merced Branch library is looking eerily like the last building a mounted Charlton Heston would gallop by before being conf ... More >>

Clueless in the Castro

All Photos | Joe EskenaziThe Merced Branch Library returns to the jungle from whence it came...Only a month after closing its doors for a renovation and seismic upgrade, the Merced Branch library is looking eerily like the last building a mounted Charlton Heston would gallop by before being conf ... More >>

Sarah Palin-Related Story Pitch a Top Contender For Worst E-Mail of All-Time

​As we've noted before, when your e-mail has the name of a newspaper in it, you get a lot of desperate missives. You'd be amazed at what communications professionals think you the reader are dying to know about; my favorite example is still the guy pitching a story about his stars-and-stripes embl ... More >>

Inoculating Yourself Against Turkey-Day Boredom: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

pengrin™/FlickrWith enough of this in ya, even Jell-O mold doesn't seem quite so scary.​Monday, November 23, 2009 Three days before you'll be packing your gullet with butter and gravy and rolls -- in other words, the whitest edibles ever devised by man. Fortunately, there's still plenty of ... More >>

Palin's Palm: What Pearls of Wisdom Lie Within?

It takes guts to criticize the president for using teleprompters while taking advantage of the manual version on the end of your wrist. But, then, Sarah Palin certainly has plenty of guts (seriously -- they've run out of refrigerator space. Todd had a field day out on the last hunting expedition). A ... More >>

The Real Americans: Dan Hoyle shows how the other half lives

It takes guts to criticize the president for using teleprompters while taking advantage of the manual version on the end of your wrist. But, then, Sarah Palin certainly has plenty of guts (seriously -- they've run out of refrigerator space. Todd had a field day out on the last hunting expedition). A ... More >>

Ever-Articulate Palin Disses ObamaCare Over Whine of Snowmobile

Alaskan street cred​Sarah Palin, Least Intelligent Megalomaniac of All Time, reacts to the House's passage of landmark health-care reform. A teaser: "Next will be the cap-and-tax energy restrictions, and amnesty for illegals, and, um, uh, things, like, uh, card-check that union bosses will allow t ... More >>

How Much Will Sarah Palin Get for CSU Stanislaus Speech? No One's Telling.

How many showmobiles could Sarah Palin with her CSU Stanislaus speaking engagement money? No one's telling. ​When Sarah Palin delivers her $500-per-ticket June 25 speech at Cal State Stanislaus, it promises to be a bargain: That's only about $25 per "um."For the CSU Stanislaus Foundation, however, ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Blood and Sunshine

Geno Valle​Like peanut butter and jelly, and chips and salsa, it's fun putting complimentary elements together. Blood and Sunshine are no exception. Combing their backgrounds of shoegaze and electronica, the duo of Joseph Macrino (vocals, guitar, Omnichord) and James Brennan (vocals, synth, machi ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- Win 'Hot Tub Time Machine' CD

Meanwhile, down at the crime lab...​Our well-placed sources tell us they were disappointed with Hot Tub Time Machine. But the soundtrack? Awesome. You can win it if you're the first to answer all the questions correctly and send me the answers. 1. Why did the city of San Francisco sue Rehab Financ ... More >>

CSU-Stanislaus Administrators Accused of Shredding Sarah Palin Documents They Claimed Did Not Exist

Sarah better run ... because Leland Yee is chasing down her finances​ Did Sen. Leland Yee just evoke Watergate in his ongoing quest to discern how much California State University-Stanislaus will pay Sarah Palin for a forthcoming speech? You betcha. When it was last month announced the former Repu ... More >>

Maxim Magazine Compares Mission's Dynamo Donuts to Sarah Palin

​Suffice to say, leaps of logic are nothing new to Maxim magazine, a publication that amounts to the male version of Cosmo: shopping, dieting, and absurd sex tips with a hot girl on the front and a plethora of ads for penis pills and creams in the back. But an article in the May issue rounding up ... More >>

Calling Bullshit on Eater's Crusade to Bust Restaurant Critics

One-time New York Times critic Ruth Reichl in disguise.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. To catch a d-bag: Tim Carman of Washington City Paper calls Eater a dick for its initiative to unmask food critics. Eater National's Greg Morabito, you see, has this ongoing obsession he calls "To Catc ... More >>

Secret Service to Investigate Palin-Inspired Threats Against Leland Yee

Threats directed against state Sen. Leland Yee after he began asking questions about how much Sarah Palin is being paid to speak at California State University Stanislaus have been turned over to the California Highway Patrol and U.S. Secret Service for investigation, a state senate security officia ... More >>

Leland Yee's Sarah Palin Crusade Strikes 'San Francisco Gold'

For Sen. Leland Yee, Sarah Palin has proven to be the perfect foil​For the record, Sen. Leland Yee has always claimed that his ongoing Sarah Palin crusade is not a politically motivated operation. If some other figure with a penchant for charging $100,000 per speech were slated to appear at Califo ... More >>

Pie Contest the Heart of Sunday's Castro County Fair

Anna in NY/FlickrThere'll be separate pie-offs for amateurs and pros like Mission Pie (above).​A Gleek-off, pie-baking contest, and Sarah Palin carnival "tea bag toss" are all on the bill for this Sunday's Castro County Fair at the S.F. Armory. Fair proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. Am ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Reported Fee For California College Appearance: $93,000

Is that a $93,000 wink? ​Sen Leland Yee, who has been in a running battle with California State Stanislaus over its refusal to disclose the fee for a Sarah Palin speaking engagement, is trumpeting a blog that does just that. According to the Palingates website, the former Alaska governor and Repub ... More >>

Hotels Duel For Sarah Palin's Business

Will these hotel offers bring Sarah Palin running?​Earlier today we reported that the alleged super-secret tab for Sarah Palin's speaking engagement at CSU-Stanislaus is $93,000 -- including a fat $18,000 for transportation and accommodations. We have nothing but fond memories of Turlock, Calif. - ... More >>

Anonymous Eurobloggers Scoop LA Times on Sarah Palin's $93,000 Cal State Speech Bonanza

Guess it was a $93,000 wink after all...​Soon, American political journalists will someday be replaced by:A. Newswriting softwareB. TwitterC. Anonymous European hobbyistsReaders of a story from today's Los Angeles Times have reason to believe the answer is "C."A Thursday Times story with the headl ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Guess it was a $93,000 wink after all...​Soon, American political journalists will someday be replaced by:A. Newswriting softwareB. TwitterC. Anonymous European hobbyistsReaders of a story from today's Los Angeles Times have reason to believe the answer is "C."A Thursday Times story with the headl ... More >>

Sarah Palin to Deliver $93,000 Speech Tonight

​After months of back and forth in which it was revealed that administrators at CSU Stanislaus were actively seeking to conceal how much it was showering on high-priced speaker Sarah Palin -- and portions of the her contract with the school turning up shredded in a dumpster after administrators cl ... More >>

Sarah Palin Welcome on Cal State Campus. Students -- Not So Much.

​With Sarah Palin due to speak at CSU-Stanislaus today, students at the Turlock campus tell SF Weekly that they're essentially being barred from their school. "They've fenced in our campus. Students and faculty are not welcome on our own campus," said Ashli Briggs, a senior and vocal critic of Sta ... More >>

Sarah Palin Contract Must Be Made Public, Judge Rules

Lots of legal 'verbiage' has been expended...​A Stanislaus County Judge this week ruled that the state university system broke the law by obscuring how much money -- and how many bendy straws -- it shelled out to lure Sarah Palin to CSU Stanislaus for a June fundraiser. Judge Roger Beauchesne issu ... More >>

Sarah Palin Contract Released: Read it Here

Lo, the contract is here...​Following this week's ruling that CSU Stanislaus broke the law by fighting to obscure its contract with Sarah Palin, the school has finally disclosed the details behind the former vice presidential candidate's controversial June appearance. Here's the number you were al ... More >>

Sarah Palin Costs Released by CSU Stanislaus -- Sort of

How much did CSU Stanislaus really spend to accommodate Sarah Palin? ​Responding to a public records request from SF Weekly, the California State University system has sent along an "event accounting summary" of June's controversial appearance by Sarah Palin at CSU Stanislaus. Yet the one-page sum ... More >>

Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina Shun Sarah Palin Event

Are Meg and Carly running away from Sarah? ​It seems the two Republican women running for office in California don't want to self-apply the label "Mama Grizzly" anytime soon. The New York Times reports that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina will be passing on the "final path to victory" rally in ... More >>

What Is So Gross About This Picture?

This. This is the photo you've seen everywhere for the past week.​The Justin Bieber-Sarah Palin mashup can't touch it for popularity. It has a longer shelf life than the Rick Sanchez anti-semitic rant. Yes, it's the photo of mechanically separated chicken ― a bubblegum-pink rope of raw meat bein ... More >>

Sarah Palin in Bay Area Today

Hello San Jose! ​Does Sarah Palin know the way to San Jose? You Betcha. The conservative Liberty & Freedom Foundation is hosting what it calls "an evening forum event with Sarah Palin." Unlike most evenings with Palin -- which, presumably, include network TV, moose, and cursing Levi Johnson, t ... More >>

Election Results Show Tea Party Fails to Gain Traction in Western States

Is that Harry Reid in the middle?​Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>

Worse Than Sarah Palin, 7-Eleven Sees the Light, and Cuddling Chickens

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Paul McCartney's one-legged ex who everyone hates, Heather Mills, is turning out to be a kinda coo-coo-for-Cocoa-Puffs activist. In a good way. I think. Anyway, she owns a chain of vegan restaurants in England ... More >>

Gavin Newsom: Talk of Sarah Palin's Breast Implants 'Demeaning'

Our lips are sealed.​It never bothered former Mayor Gavin Newsom that his slick-back hairdo sometimes got more media attention than his policies. But Newsom, who is now lieutenant governor, says people need to tone it down when attacking a female politician's physical appearance -- even Republican ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi Didn't Help S.F. Restaurants Get Health Care Reform Waivers

Republicans are just paranoid​Washington Republicans say they're shocked --  shocked that San Francisco restaurants obtained healthcare reform waivers handed out last month by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. They've even spun a conspiracy theory that says Congresswoman Na ... More >>

Vote for Your Favorite Food Vendor

​We love voting! Not that it does us much good politically, but San Francisco has some of the highest turnout in the nation -- 61% last November, 81% the last time we picked a President. When it's important, we love voting even more. So for the crucial decision of which four food vendors win ... More >>

Sarah Palin: The Accidental Poet

Deep thoughts, by Sarah Palin ​We all know Sarah Palin is no professor when it comes to the English language, which is why we were both shocked and amused to see that Palin has recently become a poet. No seriously, Byliner Executive Editor Michael Solomon has given us the gift of stripped down Pal ... More >>

"The Undefeated": Hagiography of Sarah Palin Mind-Bogglingly Bad

Deep thoughts, by Sarah Palin ​We all know Sarah Palin is no professor when it comes to the English language, which is why we were both shocked and amused to see that Palin has recently become a poet. No seriously, Byliner Executive Editor Michael Solomon has given us the gift of stripped down Pal ... More >>

Silence Is Death at Cobb's Comedy Club

Deep thoughts, by Sarah Palin ​We all know Sarah Palin is no professor when it comes to the English language, which is why we were both shocked and amused to see that Palin has recently become a poet. No seriously, Byliner Executive Editor Michael Solomon has given us the gift of stripped down Pal ... More >>

Bouncer: Silence Is the Worst at Cobb's Comedy Club

​From this week's Bouncer column: I just made the mistake of reading all of the comments that followed a Yahoo News article on the legalization of gay marriage in New York state -- thousands of hateful people being viciously mean, woefully ignorant, or both. It reminds me of road rage, those ... More >>