PRESS GAGGLE
Journeys with George is a great peek into what it's like to travel with the President. Scott McClellan, White House Deputy Press Secretary, posted this yesterday as an example of what kinda absurdity he works through everyday.

MULTI TASKING
Jeff and I just saw three cops walk into a Krispy Kreme and walk out with a box of fresh ones and a woman in handcuffs.

SFPD - Always on the job!

POWERPOINT
Over the last 10 years, I'd say I've hired people to give well over 1,000 presentations at events I've produced.
And I've been waiting for something like this to happen the entire time:

Porn shows up in businessman's slide show
The Associated Press story

WEATHERMAN'S LAST NERVE
This morning, the newsreader on our CBS station was griping,
"Boy, the fog sure is putting a cold blanket over the city. Any idea when we'll get rid of it?"

Clearly tired of hearing about it, the weatherman responded,
"You moved to San Francisco; what did you expect?"

silence

SNAKE
The Sydney Morning Herald:
A young South African boy is missing, his friends say he was swallowed by an African rock python, and a snake expert says he believes them.
He said a group of boys, aged between five and eight, were playing in a mango plantation in the eastern harbour city of Durban at the weekend. One of the boys later ran home and told his mother his friend had been eaten by a snake.

T-SHIRTS FROM HELL
A good, church-going friend showed me one of the most tasteless websites I've ever seen: T-shirts From Hell. The Insensitivity section wins every time.

WTF
just, wtf?

NEW JOB
People don't hire new folks when there is no work to be done.
So, why does it surprise me every time I start a new gig that the work load is just huge?

I am now the director of all things not user experience research and design for Adaptive Path, a consulting company that provides user experience research and design. Very smart folks that help make the internet go.

MARGARET BERRY
Googlisms

margaret berry is among them
margaret berry is an editor who lives in san francisco and publishes mightygirl
margaret berry is managing editor of new architect
margaret berry is a writer and editor living in san francisco
margaret berry is the kind of writer i want to be
margaret berry is the featured artist of the month at the village craftsmen

Who are you marrying?

JACKSON ARMS
My fancy had a 'bridesmaid's tea" on Saturday. With scones!

To balance things out, my friend Jeff and I headed to Jackson Arms Shooting Range. I called to make sure we could just walk in and shoot a gun:

JA: Hello, Jackson Arms
ME: Hi. I'm not a member there, but a friend and I would like to come down there and get a couple hours on the range?
JA: OK. (pause)
ME: OK. It's been a while since I've fired a gun. Is there anything else we need to do?
JA: (as if read from a script): "Do you think you can handle a fire arm in a safe and controlled manner?"
ME: I think so. I mean, yes.
JA: OK, great. No problem, Come on down.

It shouldn't be that easy, I think.

NANCY
"It is clear to me that Nancy Pelosi has the votes of a majority of the caucus," Frost, 60, said in a letter to Democratic colleagues. "In light of this fact, today I am releasing all of my commitments."

Goodbye Rep. Frost.

Democrats lost this week because they avoided any appearance of conflict with a very popular president. It begs the question: Why support a party that just agrees with every element of the Republican agenda?

Rep. Pelosi will provide a clear, articulate and liberal opposition to the Republican majority. She's a smart, practical Democrat with a keen understanding of national politics and she'll do fantastically on the Sunday morning punditry circuit.

And she's much better looking than the Majority Leader, Dennis Hassert.

Oh Boy More Fear And Gluttony Whee
From the SF Gate's Mark Morford

Dark stormclouds of sadness and pain passed over the collective soul of the United States and indeed much of the universe today as the Republican Party won control of American government and will hence have much less trouble passing more invidious laws that further its adorably sniveling and very, very mean-spirited agenda of war, big business, corporate inbreeding, heartlessness, artlessness, cultural degradation, homophobia, misogyny, racism, fear, dread, gluttony, and uptight sexless puling about everything that doesn't gibe with rich whitebread Americana doctrines of money and power or vague karmic misery and sneering fear of anyone who makes less than six figures or has genuine orgasms or really loves the environment or personal freedom or alternative viewpoints or laughter. "Hail Satan!" giggled a heavily shellacked Elizabeth Dole as she stepped into Jesse Helms' crusty, moldy, homophobic pink slippers. "Let the Dark Days begin!"

HALLOWEEN
My brother, Maggie and I were 3 of 300,000 people on the Castro this year.


Siegfried & Roy with Tiger