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Social Studies, recently interviewed by The Bay Bridged,  released This Is the World’s Biggest Hammer last year, an infectious EP filled by sugary melodies with just enough bite. The band headlines a show at Bottom of the Hill with The Magic Bullets & Pants Pants Pants. We think this wil be a great show that you should definitely check out, but the real reason we’re posting this is to have an excuse to post this:

Last night, I received this text message from an attendee of the Avail, Draft & Fabulous Disaster show last night: “Some body [sic] was just fucking in the shitter at Bottom of the Hill.” Eew.

$8, all ages.

• First, jackwad, if you decide to go to Ton Kiang when it is butt ass cold outside, suck it up and stand the fuck OUT.SIDE. ‘Cause guess what pretty pretty princess? Even though you think you are more important than everyone else, here’s a news flash. YOU’RE NOT. I’m talking about you, blocking the door in and out with your thirteen hundred family members and your forty-seven double wide strollers, preventing anyone else from getting in or out, pushing into the restaurant so the lovely folk with their tasty dumplings can’t get back to me patiently waiting at my corner table. That’s bad enough, but what’s worse is your dumbass son elbowing another diner in the face and your fat ass slamming up against some poor sap’s chair while he’s munching on some cha siu bao. After patiently waiting his turn. OUTSIDE. I hate you. And in the words of Corky St.Clair, I hate you and your ass face. (Side note: Jon says that should we ever have offspring, they are so screwed because we will hold them to a higher standard of courtesy than the rest of the world holds themselves. Tough titty.)

• I also hate January (lots of hate going on up in here these days) because nothing good is in season, and all the good stuff that remains is getting murdered by this freakishly cold weather. It is also historically my worst work month, hence the lack o’ posts. Fuck January.

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Booty Bassment

DJs Ryan (Gun Club, Pancake Radio) and Dimitri (of Cockerspaniel Fame) bring the best booty bass from New York, Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore and the West for FREE tomorrow night at the Knockout. Booty Bassment also takes place down in San Diego every fourth Saturday. 21+.

Art Business checked out David V. D’Andrea’s show at Triple Base.

Audio Narcotic says that white people are inherently racist.

What I’m Seeing saw China Basin pre-future gentrification.

Awww Damn started eating again.

Smart Kitty wonders if Seth MacFarlane is an alcohlic or funnyman.
Incidentally, MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, was  meant to be on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, but he showed up too late because he had been out drinking the night before and was told he would need to take a later flight.

The Bay Bridged interviews Volunteer Pioneer.

Jay Howell’s zine wins award for “best zine pretty much ever made.”

Beyond Chron gets an earful from Saints fans.

Okay, this isn’t really San Francisco news, but this was the greatest thing I saw yesterday.

“”We also knew damn well if he went to Syria, he’d be tortured. And it’s beneath the dignity of this country — a country that has always been a beacon of human rights — to send somebody to another country to be tortured. You know and I know that has happened a number of times in the past five years by this country. It is a black mark on us.”

And we’re not impeaching the president? Why’s that again?

By the Eloquent & Oft-Quoted Daniel Taylor

The thing about drinking low-grade Milwaukee beer like Schlitz, Pabst or High Life is that, at the time, you feel so smart, like “Let these suckers drink their expensive Microbrews, I’ll get my can of Schlitz, tip the bartender, and still come out ahead.” And besides, the watered down nature of shitty beer, allows the drinker to consume it at a much more rapid, and thus more exhilirating pace than it’s thicker, more stout peers. The more you drink, the smarter you feel about your choices.

You might even start to feel a bit of middle-class patriotism. Holding a can of Schlitz in your hand just feels so damn American. You start to feel like you just got off work at the factory and now you’re down at the docks, looking for a scuffle. And that guy next to you drinking the Heineken, he doesn’t know how it feels to put in a true day’s work. In fact, you might just have to wipe that smile off his goddamn lips. “I’ll show him, after a couple more,” you might start thinking. “I can lick any sonofabitch in this place.”

Then the next thing you know, you’ve been magically time warped directly to your bed, or your car, or someone’s front porch, and the sun is showing you that the only sonofabitch that got whipped last night was you. You start to realize that Schlitz is actually an onomonpaea, because that’s the exact sound it makes coming out your other end, along with whatever burritto or pita or other decidely Unamerican food you threw on top of it in your drunken, 2:00 AM street walking.
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Big Brother will be watching over a number of high crime areas in the City after the San Francisco Police Commission voted unanimously last night to allow 25 cameras to be installed. These areas include: 16th & Mission, 24th & Mission, 26th & Shotwell, Turk & Taylor, Mission & Geneva, Jones & Ellis, Third & Newcomb and 1050 McAllister.

While I don’t think that installing the cameras will significantly reduce crime, and of course is no solution for the base issues that cause crime, I can’t say that I’m all too upset about it. And because I go to 16th & Mission on a daily basis to go to Bart, Walgreens, the Bank of America ATMs and The Sandwich Place, I’m even looking forward to them going in. Of course, I’d still rather see the root causes of crime addressed, better lighting and more foot patrols by the police, but still, I sometimes meet my mom at the 16th & Mission Bart Station, and she doesn’t have a handgun or pepper spray or karate skills to ward off the nut cases if she ever arrives early (though she did grow up in the projects and could probably put the smack down if need be).
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Pumpkin Cutter Projects Hosts:
The Save Darfur Tour
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Visionaries (Up Above Records)
Greyskull (Rhymesayers)
Sleep (Old Dominion)
Alexipharmic
Pegleg

@ The Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco 21+

A benefit to support relief efforts in Sudan, where genocide has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Colin Powell called it “one of the worst huminatarian crises of the century.” With the United States just beginning to take steps to aid the people of Sudan, much of the aid rolling into Sudan is from nonprofits, which will receive all profits from the tour. Catch some excellent hip-hop while supporting relief in Sudan.

The Bay Bridged.com presents an echolocation day benefit for World Access for the Blind this Thursday @ Cafe Du Nord. Featuring the smoothe sounds of Honeycut, the indie experimental pop of The Ebb & Flow & the folk-y pop of Michael Zapruder. World Access for the Blind “is a non-profit organization employing unique teaching strategies to help blind and sighted people throughout the world improve their quality of life, and dedicated to the conviction that blind people can learn to see without sight, and sighted people can learn to see better.” $8-$15 sliding scale.

For those of you that missed it, the above photo of Mayor Gavin Newsom and chicken foe was featured on the front page of Sunday’s Chronicle. The backstory is that San Francisco voters passed a non-binding resolution that asks the mayor to appear before the board of supervisors once a month for question time, inspired by British Prime Minister question time, the most only entertaining part of CSPAN. Mayor Newsom has refused, and instead proposed town hall meetings, like the one featured (held last Saturday), where friends of Gav and the general public are invited to attend. Attendees can’t stand to ask questions, and instead write questions down, which are then screened before the mayor answers them. Basically, these meetings will serve as campaign appearances to bolster the mayor’s reelection bid, or so he hoped. Thanks to our feathered friends, one of which was Ted Strawser of SF Party Party (which has priceless footage of the event), the news coverage was dominated by the chicken (get it, ’cause he’s chicken) story. This is my favorite part of the Chronicle article: “It was a dog-and-chicken pony show,” said one man in a chicken costume who wanted only to be called Chicken McGreen.

Speaking of Mayor McChicken, no one seems to want to take him on in this race. Matt Gonzalez told the Chronicle that he has no intention of running… Ross?