| September 13, 2005 | Gavin Admits He Likes Us |
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Check this out: Our cute, hot mayor and #1 fan Gavin Newsom was caught on camera, and he admitted he liked the idea of having a pirate TV station in SF (Pirate Cat TV 13, of which I'm a founding member along with Monkey and Junglebook). Watch this quick video clip (shot by Junglebook on Saturday at the Fulton Street Fair) where Gavin comes out of the closet as a Pirate Cat fan. As if that's not enough magical multimedia surprise for you -- you should download this mash-up made by Pirate Cat Radio DJ The Rat. It's called "Bang On," and it mixes together "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra (which you may remember from the 'Kill Bill' soundtrack) with "Dream On" by Aerosmith and "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. I think it's hauntingly beautiful. Labels: gavinnewsom, mashup, piratecatradio, pirateradio, radio, sanfrancisco, sf posted by Jess Barron @ 11:29 PM 
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| March 4, 2005 | Gavin, Give Us a Call |
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We're doing the radio show tonight from 6-8p.m PST. Tune in online or at 87.9 on your FM dial in San Fran-silly. Tonight's topics will include tales of hook-ups on waterbeds, Martha Stewart and male fantasies about women's prisons, and songs that made young girls cry in 1986. Also, we're hoping Jackson from SFist will call in again and tell us more stuff that cracks us up. And we're still waiting for our call from mayor Gavin Newsom. C'mon, if he's phoning Paris Hilton, he damn well better call us. Gavin -- call us on the studio line tonight: 415.401.7393. We promise we'll still respect you in the morning. Labels: gavinnewsom, piratecatradio, pirateradio, sf posted by Jess Barron @ 12:47 PM
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| December 10, 2003 | SF Mayoral Milkshake |
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"Matt Gonzalez's milkshake is better than mine. And Larry Harvey's Harvey Milk-shake may be the best damn milkshake of all." -me (who else?) Owen and I voted together this morning. We walked across the street to our polling place (an elementary school) at 7:45 a.m. When we put our ballots into the counting machine, he was number 24 and I was number 25. And then the polling people offered us donuts. It was so cute. Matt Gonzalez's milkshake just might might bring all the girls (and boys) to the yard. One of my male friends (somewhat jokingly) said, "I like Matt because he's a hipster guy, and he kind of reminds me of myself." And Selena, who was visiting SF from Los Angeles for Thanksgiving, noticed all the Gonzalez posters hanging up as we walked around the Mission and said, "I wish I lived in San Francisco, you guys have such a cutie running for mayor!" I was listening to one of the big local alternative rock radio stations over the weekend and they were talking about the mayoral race. "This race seems to be all about hair," the DJ said. "I don't feel like I really know anything about where the candidates stand on the issues. It's really more like 'Gavin Newsom has slicked-back short hair, so he's a total Yuppie big-business guy' and 'Matt Gonzalalez has cool messy hair and he's in a band, so he's into supporting San Francisco's artist community.'" Labels: gavinnewsom, milkshake, owen, politics, sanfrancisco posted by Jess Barron @ 10:21 AM
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| November 4, 2003 | SF Mayoral Candidates' Voight-Kampff Empathy Test |
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Deckard: She's a replicant. Tyrell: I'm impressed, Mr. Deckard. How many questions does it normally take? Deckard: I don't get it... Tyrell: How many? Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced. Tyrell: But with Rachael it took more than a hundred. Deckard: She doesn't know. Tyrell: She is beginning to suspect I think. Deckard: Beginning to suspect? How can it not know what it is? -Blade Runner (1982) Someone at The Wave magazine came up with the idea to give the San Francisco mayoral candidates the Voight-Kampff empathy test from Blade Runner. The results are pretty amusing. Only Ammiano figured out what was going on. Don't forget to scroll down to the bottom for Gavin Newsom's test. (Courtesy of Andy.) Labels: gavinnewsom, sanfrancisco, sf posted by Jess Barron @ 6:49 PM
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