In January, Petrelis posted the names and phone numbers of the 16 members of the No on 8 executive committee. According to Petrelis's blog, Petrelis Files, he had to file a public records request with the Secretary of State to get the names. "Like practically everything [Equality California Executive Director Geoff] Kors and No on 8 touched, the closet and non-transparency ruled," Petralis wrote.
Then said he hoped the executive committee, which included Kors, would spend the next year sweeping the streets of gay neighborhoods and participating in other acts of penance for wasting $45 million on losing gays the right to marry. Yep. This meeting could get very interesting.
It happens Thursday, February 26th, between 6:30 and 9 p.m. at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Pollster David Binder will present findings on the vote, and Cynthia Laird, the editor of the Bay Area Reporter, will lead the discussion. Apparently, she'll be ensuring accountability and objectivity, whatever the hell that means.
shouldn't the copy read "Pro-Hamas protest," since we are to believe
that each and every single person attending this rally is a staunch
supporter of the organization and is not, in fact, assembling in order to protest
Hamas?) The video evidence reveals a group of people chanting "Free Palestine" and a brief, shakily documented tussle. Wake up and smell the smell of freshly brewed O'Reilly Brand Truth Coffee, hippie-terrorist-sympathizers!
Check out the transcript here.
"Reporters thought it was quite humorous at first, but [the portabletoilets] belong to somebody and this is a company's livelihood, they
rent these things," Tomioka said, adding that multiple companies are
being victimized, along with construction crews. "What started out as
something people thought was quite humorous is actually quite serious."
Most of us probably can't recall the last time we picked up a coloring book -- and let's face it, our childish efforts at employing chiaroscuro on Skeletor aren't likely worth remembering anyway. But not all adults have lost the taste for using crayons between the lines. A quick Google search reveals that all manner of grown-up coloring books are out there these days, the likes of which a child literally could never have imagined. (The Big Coloring Book of Vaginas, anyone?)
A novel strain in this publishing subculture will be featured at the comics convention WonderCon 2009, which takes place at the Moscone Center from Feb. 27 to March 1. The creators of Color Ink Book -- a coloring book periodical that just released its second issue -- are coming to San Francisco for the convention. Color Ink Book is the brainchild of two guys in Southern California, Adam Washburn, a 46-year-old plumber from Oceanside, and his brother Jason, who manages a comics store.
"We compete with no one, because we're unusual and unique," Adam Washburn said in a telephone interview. "There isn't anything else like this out there." The Washburns are heavily into the low-brow art scene, from which most of the images in Color Ink Book are drawn. The brothers use a stable of regular artists, who supply black-and-white drawings to be colored in. "We wanted to do something different, set ourselves apart, and actually allow the fans to get involved in the artists' work," Washburn said. "Growing up, I remember that coloring books were a real blast."
We agree that it's a pretty cool idea, and markedly less creepy than some other takes on this most innocent of childhood pastimes. For instance, there's no disputing that the Roman Catholic Church's efforts to curb abusive priests with an anti-pedophilia coloring book for kids serves a worthy cause. But we can't help asking: Really?
