If you ever find yourself sitting in front of the computer wondering if it's too soon to make a joke about the kid who accidentally ran over his grandmother, the answer is "yes." --Andy Wright
By Benjamin Wachs
Just moments ago the Board of Supervisors overrode Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of Ross Mirkarimi's bill requiring any city meeting that can be recorded and broadcast to be recorded and broadcast.
Hot damn.
Override passed 8 - 3 ... the enemies of open government who voted no are Supes Alioto-Pier, Chu, and Elsbernd.
This doesn't mean it's actually going to happen ... the Mayor can still try to freeze the funds citing the budget crunch ... but the Supes did the right thing.
You take your victories where you can. Let's hope this happens.
By Benjamin Wachs
Summer is the cruelest season for a crime-addled city. School is out and temperatures are high, so homicides tend to spike.
How a city handles crime prevention when school’s not in session can mean the difference between a summer of death and a summer of love.
San Francisco had one summer of love, back in the 60s. You may have been told about it by people with peculiar odors. It’s been all downhill since then: San Francisco has consistently failed to put together anything resembling a decent plan to address summer violence.
But … this year … there are encouraging signs. Can you teach an old hippie government new tricks? Here’s 3 things they might be getting right for the first time.
Playboy, preeminent purveyor of antiseptic hetero glamour shot porn, will be branching out into the gay market. Are you ready for hot, hot, hot, "professionally produced adult programs" that "shall not depict actual anal penetration, licking or anal sexual play of any kind?" We thought so.
According to a May 9 item on Xbiz.com, Playboy enterprises will begin offering softcore gay porn through an on-demand cable channel tentatively named Gay Targeted VOD Package Service. Package service, indeed.
My question is, who pays for softcore? It's one thing if you're in a hotel room and they happen to have a free channel of smooth adults with carefully concealed genitals rolling around on silk sheets, or if you're thirteen and Showtime is rerunning a Red Show Diaries episode at 3am. But who pays for softcore smut when free porno teaming with penetration exists for free on the Internet? Playboy may have a reliable customer base in straight men, but will gay men who have no fond memories of discovering Playboys under dad's bed fork over their cash to maybe see an erect penis? --Andy Wright
