The All Time Lows

Later Rummy!

2006-11-08T10:34:00.000-08:00

George Allen's Thugs Attack A Liberal Blogger, Literally

2006-10-31T12:10:00.000-08:00

First Macaca, now this:

Oh, and then there's the whole hanging his sister over the edge of Niagara Falls thing.

Mesh Magazine Presents Gucci Time w/ Lemonade, Trackademicks & More!

2006-10-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

Fri Nov 10
Mesh Magazine Presents:
GUCCI TIME
w/ Lemonade, Trackademicks, and DJs Disco Shawn (Popscene), Matthew Africa, & Ryan Poulson (Gun Club)
$8
@ The Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
18+

Mesh Magazine presents a night of booty jams of all varieties from the worlds of hip-hop, electro, new wave & B-more club. Featuring live performances from Lemonade, who tear influences from rap, Brazilian percussion and krautrock to create an amalgam of dance songs for the jet set, and Trackademicks, the Bay Area rapper and producer who blends the raw, goin' dumb sounds of hyphy with new wave and dance punk in a way that is blowing up clubs (his remix of E-40's "Tell Me When To Go" was everywhere this summer) and garnering him tons of press from the likes of XLR8R and The Fader.

DJs Matthew Africa (HUbba Rock), Disco Shawn (Popscene) & Ryan Poulsen (Gun Club) are also known for mashing up styles and aim to put the dance back in "dance club" by spinning a wide array of genre destructing music.

If Corrupt Gave a Fuck About a Bitch

2006-10-03T02:17:00.000-07:00

Iraq War, Day 1,261

2006-09-28T10:35:00.000-07:00

According to a new poll, 6 in 10 Iraqis support attacks on U.S. troops. A National Intelligence Estimate says that the Iraq War is creating more terrorism, something the left (and many on the right) has been saying for several years now. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, claims that insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur every 15 minutes in Iraq, a fact that the Bush Administration is hiding.

Iraqi Civilian Deaths Hit All Time High

2006-09-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

6,599 Iraqi civilians were killed in July and August. 50 U.S. military have been killed so far in September. Bush's only strategy now is to keep this thing going until he leaves office. Then when we pull out and all hell brakes loose he can blame his succesor. When do we leave?

Is Matt Cain Jesus?

2006-09-14T14:54:00.000-07:00

Seriously, Is Matt Cain for real? Here's his line for today:

Here are his numbers for the last five games before that:

Hello, new ace.

Borat!

2006-09-13T15:11:00.000-07:00

According to the Daily Mail, President Bush is set to hold talks with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and among other topics, is scheduled to discuss the threat of Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” to Kazakhstan's image worldwide. Late last year, the government of Kazakhstan took out a full page ad in the New York Times protesting Cohen's portrayal of the country and reserved the right to sue Cohen for "future pranks." In response, Borat released a video, whose most memorable line was "In response to Mr. Ashykbayev's comments, I'd like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my Government's decision to sue this Jew."

The New York Times ripped on the movie because of its anti-semitic humor (and as Borat pointed out, Cohen is Jewish). I'd be more worried about Lethal Weapon 5. "Borat" has the potential to be the greatest movie ever made.

1, 2, 3, 4. We don't need your... oh, nevermind.

2006-09-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

This comes via my brother-in-law, yet another republican converted away from the dark side by our president. And while he probably won't be attending the Democratic National Convention anytime soon, he did send me along a link to a story about Airforce Secretary Michael Wynne's comments Tuesday, in which he said that nonlethal weapons should be tested on American citizens in crowd situations before being used on the battlefield. And while I'm as much a fan of beating up hippies as the next guy, this seems kind of insane. Remind me not to participate in any marches. I'd rather not get hit by a microwave beam.

Lindsay Lohan Robbed at Heathrow Airport: $1 Million Worth of Crap in the Bag

2006-09-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

I'm not usually a fan of robbery, but this is kind of awesome.

People in the News & Myspace: Brittanie Mountz & Michael Tobias

2006-09-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite things to do when someone under the age of 30 makes the news for a crime is to look up their Myspace page. Today, I've chosen to compare two young people who made the news today. One was spotted on the arm of Mayor Gavin Newsom at the San Francisco Symphony gala last night and one was arrested for furnishing pot cookies to more than 30 of his closest friends/a>, 13 of whom got sick and ended up in the hospital (did he buy this weed on Telegraph or what?).

Brittanie Mountz:

I can't tell if this is a Photoshopped image of two Brittanies, or if there are two different girls in this photo, but Brittanie's definitely the one on the right.

According to her Myspace page she is 19, but I kind of doubt that. If she is though, mad props to you Mr. Mayor.
San Francisco

Music David Gray, Coldplay (of course), Travis, Beck, Feeder, Citizen Cope, Amos Lee, Thriving Ivory (the drummer is mighty fine), The Verve, Oasis, DMB, Jack, Alanis (bitch tunes), John Fruciante, U2, Annie Lennex, Damien Rice, Green Day, Eric Clapton, Sigar Ros, Macy Gray, Moby, Beethoven, Guster, Tom Petty, Pinback, Iron and Wine, Elliot Smith, Red Hot CP, Goo Goo Dalls, Nirvana, Lonestar, Garth Brooks, Led Zepllin, Jimmy Eat World, Norah Jones, Queen, Sublime, Bob....mmmm the list won't end.....
Groups: I GET CRUNKED, DO AWESOME THINGS AND FORGET ABOUT THEM BEFORE MORNING GROUP

While there is some terrible stuff on there (Goo Goo Dolls, Sublime, Garth Brooks), she does gain some points for Pinback, Iron & Wine and Elliot Smith. As for her group, well, I wonder what she remembers about her evening with the Gav. Definitely a step up from Kimberly.

Some dude. -Image removed at subject's request, because we're nice like that.
And I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this look like the kind of guy that would make pot brownies?
Age 24
Berkeley, CA
ladytron, the books, tracy + the plastics, chemical brothers, herbie hancock, jay-z, miss kittin, dre, haiduci, james brown, woody guthrie, peaches, fischerspooner, flock of seagulls, abba, the faint, iggy pop, felix da housecat, new order, out hud, prince, le tigre, t.rex, waldorf, joan jet, buddy holly

Dude gets the nod in the music category, with a wide range of musicians from Herbie Hancock to Woody Guthrie to Jay-Z to Out Hud.

*As I was writing this, Brittanie set her Myspace page to private. You can thank me later.

Damn That's A Lot of Weed

2006-09-06T12:03:00.000-07:00

22,740 marijuana plants were found growing in Point Reyes, complete with a massive irrigation system, fertilizer and pesticides. It's amazing that people can grow that much pot on public lands and get away with it. The plants seized at Point Reyes were worth an estimated $50 million.

Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.

2006-09-06T10:58:00.000-07:00

ABC is about to show a "documdrama" about the 9/11 attacks this Sunday and Monday called "The Path to 9/11." I think they should have called it "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the U.S." after the memo Bush received less than a month before the attacks while he and his war ~~pigs~~ hawks were drawing up their plans for a three-day war in Iraq. The problem with ABC's docudrama is that it may be mostly drama with very little "docu," due in large part that this movie was written and produced by conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh and directed by conservative David Cunningham.

The movie depicts a scene in which ~~New Kid on the Block~~ actor Donnie Wahlberg, playing a CIA agent, has Bin Laden in his sights and is begging for orders from the Clinton Administration to take him out. In the movie, these orders are not given, and the rest is well, you know. Problem is, this scene is a complete fabrication, and according to the 9/11 commission, never happened. Sure makes it seem like Clinton was responsible for 9/11 though. Good job boys!

The movie apparently depicts some failures of the Bush Administration as well, but just the inclusion of this completely invented scene, makes this whole thing smell pretty bad.

From Salon.com: More disturbing, though, is the way the filmmakers seem determined to link the Clinton administration's missteps to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Instead of offering us some indication of President Clinton's earnest efforts to stop Osama bin Laden, we're repeatedly treated to his most uneasy moments in the hot seat over Lewinsky, painting the president as a buffoon more interested in blow jobs than terrorists. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who'll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats -- despite the fact that we're given little concrete evidence of the president's concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, "The Path to 9/11" feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.

From ThinkProgress.com:
Last night on MSNBCs Scarborough Country, Roger Cressey a top counterterrorism official to Bush II and Clinton blasted ABCs docudrama The Path to 9/11. Cressy said its amazinghow much theyve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong and then they got the big stuff wrong. He added that a scene where the Clinton administration passes on a surefire opportunity to take out bin Laden is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. Its factually wrong. And thats shameful.

Ty Boogie: You Heard It Here First

2006-09-05T21:10:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure exactly where this falls along the completely rad/totally fucked-up space time continuum, but allow me to introduce you to five-year-old Ty Boogie, the youngest gangsta rapper the world has ever seen. Ty, the hard mofo that he is, is only scared of three things: Mickey Mouse, Chuck E. Cheese, & Mustard. As the young man said himself, "Fuck Chuck E.!"

Listen to Ty's hit single "Summer 2006."
Visit Ty Boogie's Myspace Page.
"A 5 year old Ol' Dirty Bastard."

Omeed Popal & the Tears of a Clown

2006-09-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

As soon as they showed this photo of SUV rampage killer Omeed Popal and his wife on the news earlier this week, my roommate screamed, "Oh my god! He's married to John Wayne Gacy!"

You decide:

My Message to Burning Man

2006-09-01T02:36:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Primal Scream's "Kill All Hippies."

Keep the A's In Oakland: New Ballpark Update

2006-08-31T12:57:00.000-07:00

Today's post at newballpark.blogspot.com post recaps A's owner Lew Wolff's comments to the San Jose Chamber of Commerce yesterday regarding the future of baseball in San Jose. The main point is that Wolff said the A's will never move to San Jose because of the Giants territorial rights to Santa Clara County. And the rumbles of Fremont continue.

Another Perfect Day

2006-08-30T15:25:00.000-07:00

The highlight of my day so far, other than the A's crushing (and sweeping) the Red Sox, getting an approval letter for a grant I applied to at work, and getting shit on by a pigeon again, was when I was walking back to work from lunch and got to drop the "C-bomb" on somebody that totally deserved it. After finishing a sandwich at The Sandwich Place on Mission Street, I walked up 16th Street toward Valencia. After crossing Julian Alley I noticed a short, fat, probably semi-homeless woman walking toward me pulling one of those carry-on suitcases on wheels behind her. She was to my left, and, as she's about three feet away from me, she turned her torso and bent down to the right. She gripped the handle of the suitcase tightly and I thought, "Wait, is she gonna try to hit me with this suitcase?"
Sure enough, she swung the suitcase at me with all of her might. Luckily, using my catlike reflexes to knock it away with my left hand, I avoided getting hit. She looked at me with a deranged smile as I screamed, "What are you doing you fucking nut?!" I noticed a metal object in her left hand as I continued to berate her, "Stupid fucking cunt!" Ahh, the joys of San Francisco.

In related news, this guy is really letting me down in keeping up his documentation of my hood.

Omeed A. Popal & His SUV

2006-08-29T20:21:00.000-07:00

CNN is reporting that the driver in custody for running down pedestrians in his SUV is Omeed A. Popal.

Maniac Driver on the Loose in San Francisco Today

2006-08-29T14:28:00.000-07:00

According to channel 5, KPIX, police have apprehended a suspect who was mowing people down on the sidewalks of San Francisco today with his SUV. According to the report he hit at least 11 pedestrians, killing ~~two~~ one (man in Fremont), throughout Pacific Heights, Laurel Heights and The Fillmore.

Charges Against John Mark Karr to be Dropped, 12,589,203,202 television news hours wasted

2006-08-28T13:36:00.000-07:00

John Mark Karr's DNA didn't match the samples taken at the scene of the crime. So, creepy dude gets a first class trip to the United States, George Bush gets a few weeks of freedom as no one covers Iraq war debacle in favor of Jon Benet.

Keep the A's in Oakland

2006-08-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

I'm a ~~masochist~~ Giants fan, and can remember the pain of learning that the team was moving to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1992 (and we've all seen what a success baseball in Florida has been. When that deal fell through, everything came together for the team (and love him or hate hime, you can thank Peter MacGowan for that: a new, privately-financed ballpark, Barry Bonds and years of a team in contention. Now it's the A's turn to court offers from out of town. And though the team has been looking for a new ballpark for years, nothing has happened.

Getting public money for a stadium in Oakland seems like the longest of longshots. Oakland has a lot more pressing problems than building a ballpark, and not a lot of cash to work with.

There's been a lot of talk about Fremont becoming the new home of the A's. The city even bought property for the project. For those of you who have never been (and really, why would you?): FREMONT SUCKS. What would the team be called? The Fremont A's? The Silicon Valley A's? Also, there is no public transportation available, and Fremont has money problems of its own.

San Jose has been kicked around a lot lately as a possible new home for the A's. Owner Lew Wolff has ties to the area and is speaking this Wednesday at the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. One of the topics he will be addressing is the future of baseball in San Jose. The Giants though, claim territorial rights over San Jose, which would make things difficult, if not impossible, for an A's move to the sub-urban sprawl of that city.

That said, the possibility of the A's staying in Oakland seems remote at best, and Wolff is expected to make some sort of announcement by the end of the season. There is a residential and retail development project in the works for the Oakland waterfront, called Oak to 9th. This development plan is, of course, subject to opposition for a number of reasons, but it should at least be considered as a possible new site for an A's ballpark (pipedream). A park in this location would be less than one mile from the Lake Merrit Bart station, and right off the freeway. I don't really buy the argument that stadiums bolster local economies to a great degree (though I don't think they don't do anything either), but I do think they can add hope and a bit of civic pride (did I really just write that) to a city, which is something Oakland could really use. The A's have been one of the most successful teams in all of baseball over the past 35 years, to send them off to suburban-strip-mall-land would be a shame.

www.oaklandfans.com
newballpark.blogspot.com

The Big Winner of Our E-40 Contest

2006-08-24T15:35:00.001-07:00

Awhile back, we asked you to send us a photo of you at your hyphy-est. After digging through your entries, our winner is Big Sammy here. He walks away with E-40's My Ghetto Report Card CD, "Tell Me When To Go" video on DVD, an E-40 Beanie and an E-40 PeeChee-style folder

Hella Street - San Francisco

2006-08-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

Hella Street - San Francisco
Originally uploaded by meshsf.

At the corner of Hella Street & Franklin

Guns N' Roses

2006-08-24T10:49:00.000-07:00

Guns N' Roses is gearing up for a West Coast tour in September. Remember their last tour? Of course, this Guns N' Roses is a man claiming to be Axl Rose (pictured) and a bunch of studio musicians. Seems like a mirror image the new Dead Kennedys. For those interested in catching this train wreck, Guns N' Roses will be performing at The Warfield on Wednesday, September 20th & Thursday, September 21st.