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The thought of being on a bus, drinking with strangers horrifies me, but this tour of the mission on The Mexican Bus, Guillermo Gómez Peña’s El Corazón de la Mission, is what I’d be doing if I didn’t already have other plans this weekend. The tour departs and returns to Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant.

From the promoters:
A guided audio tour of San Francisco’s Mission District Featuring live performances by Violeta Luna and David Molina Aboard The Mexican Bus

Experience El Corazón de la Mission, an 80-minute audio tour scripted and narrated by renowned writer, border activist and performance provocateur Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Join Guillermo¹s longtime performance collaborator Violeta Luna, who with musician David Molina will guide you through the Mission¹s shifting border zones. From Dolores Park to Clarion Alley and the 24th Street Corridor, ride shotgun with them as Gómez-Peña honors the Mission’s ghosts, from fallen labor leaders of the 1930s to testosterone-driven low-riders of the 1980s, and celebrates the ever-evolving social, cultural and political sensibilities of his favorite San Francisco neighborhood.

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Like the new Radiohead album, LP7 In Rainbows, which you can check out here: http://radioheadlp7.com

Back in 2001, I wrote a review of Garbage’s album, Beautiful, for Chico’s Synthesis. Basically I said it was horrble, and a couple years later some woman found it on the Interweb and sent an e-mail to the Synthesis in which she wrote that my “bullshit article is the epitome of crap.” I love that e-mail and have printed it below, along with the original review.

Today I have finally read something that I find deserving of that phrase: the cover story of the SF Weekly called “Steroids Confidential“. SF Weekly, your bullshit article is the epitome of crap.

These “authors,” whose names are anagrams for “Fiction” and “Satire” supposedly interview Barry Bonds’s trainer Greg Anderson’s cell mate, who says Anderson gave him the dirt on Bonds, including that he would file down Bonds’ back zits with an emery board, that Bonds drinks elk semen, that Bonds shot his penis full of HGH because he was worried about testicle shrinkage from steroid use.

Now, maybe if this was April Fool’s Day, I could see why they would run this as the cover story, but the SF Weekly is supposed to be a news weekly that reports on serious local news. Instead they waste their cover story on some made-up bullshit, that really isn’t even funny, and nowhere do they say that this article is not true, except in the anagrammed names.

Here’s the cover text: Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball’s new home run king.

What the fuck? Seriously, how do they decide to run a completely fabricated article and pass it off as true? Good hoax, douchebags.

Anyway, back to me.

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Why must you beat up on the Giants every time you play them? I know that it wasn’t exactly a rare occurrence this season, but did you really need to hit a walk off home run against us earlier this month? Why did you hit a home run against the Giants on Tuesday after I kept yelling Spicoli quotes at you? Please go to the American League. I hate you Khalil Greene.

Just got the word from the highly recommended Bandega.com that Iron & Wine will be playing at the Oakland Paramount, Friday, November 30th. Tickets go on sale on Sunday at 10AM. Mr. Beam (author of one of my favorite profane song lyrics: We were born to fuck each other, one way or another) is touring in support of his new album, The Shepard’s Dog, which he told The Independent, was inspired by the confusion he felt when Bush was re-elected. What a shitty, shitty day that was.

If you haven’t checked out Bandega yet, it’s basically a service lets you pick which bands you’re into and then notifies you of upcoming concerts and on-sales by e-mail. The site also features interviews, like this one with Zach from Rogue Wave.

Von Iva
The Bruises
@ The Red Devil Lounge
1695 Polk Street
$10 in advance/$12 @ the door
21+

Von Iva’s latest release, Our Own Island, sees the ladies’ sound evolving into a bass-heavy,  synth and drums electro dance explosion that retains all the soul of their previous, more kinetic songs. Catch the band live next Saturday at The Red Devil Lounge.

Republicans want to change California’s electoral process, splitting the electoral votes based on congressional districts, which essentially will hand them at least 20 electoral votes and the White House. They are only proposing this in Blue California, not Red southern states, or Ohio, Florida or Texas.

So, unless you like the sound of President Mitt “I’d Double the Size of Guantanamo” Romney, help fight this measure.

From Crazy Uncle Howard (Dean):
If you can’t win, cheat.

Apparently that’s the Republicans’ answer to our work here in California. If they have their way, your reliably “blue” state won’t be so blue in 2008.

Faced with a strong Democratic presence, Republicans are campaigning for a new election system instead of their own candidates.

If they get what they’re after, it could cost us the White House.
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