SFist takes prize for longest -ist thread EVAHBy Sarah Phelan
You gotta give it up to snarky SFist for snagging the longest comment thread on any -ist site around the world (take that, London, Paris, Rome!).
This achievement occurred as part of the ongoing eruptions around the comments that Mayor Gavin Newsom's girlfriend, Jennifer Siebel, made after she labeled Ruby Rippey Tourk as "the culprit" in the Chronicle. (Last time, we checked, the comments were up to 429 and people were still posting.)
You also gotta give it up to Jennifer Siebel for opening the gates on what was clearly a repressed longing in this city to find out and vent about a) WTF happened between the Mayor and Ruby, b)why and c) on whose dime.
All with JS starring as a pleasant-to-look-at, bee-saving punch bag who is pitted against Gavin's former flame, Ruby, thereby creating a cyber cat fight, in which the Mayor comes out looking like a royal jerk.So, as the mayor winds up his trip in NYC, you can imagine how cranky his PR machine is sounding:
"Best to say nothing, Gav."
"But if I don't, people will think that what Jen said is what I said."
"Well, wasn't it?"
"And that makes me look blamey and pathetic."
"Er..."
"And If I say nothing it looks as if I'm hanging Jen out to dry."
"Er..."
"So what am I gonna say?"
See the problem? Especially if the mayor is gonna stay true to his promise to be honest and sober etc.
Maybe the Mayor and JS should model "SFist is the Culprit" T-shirts. As should all you folks who spent the last few days posting/reading at SFist instead of spinning your hamster wheels at work. (What, moi?)
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Comments (1)
Your post is an interesting take. I like satirical and funny looks at human foibles.
I’ve read many of the posts on SFist, not all but more than I usually read. And as I browsed through them, I had the feeling that the 1950 Japanese film, Roshomon, was being played out on the tiny screen before me.
Set in 12th Century Japan, the film is about a samurai who is killed and his wife raped. The bandit who committed the crimes is soon captured and placed on trial. The bandit tells his story and the samurai’s wife tells hers. Their stories don’t quite calibrate, so the prosecution brings in a psychic who tells the story of the murdered man. The psychic tells yet another version of the incident. The last witness is a woodcutter who discovered the body of the murdered samurai and confesses that he saw the entire incident. By now, you know that his story is completely different from the other three.
I suppose the film carries a deep psychological message. I’m rather shallow myself, so I didn’t bother trying to figure out anything. To me the film posits a simple question “What is the truth?”
In the 2007 San Francisco version, who are the players? Who is the victim? Who is the wife? Who is the psychic who speaks for the murdered victim? Who is the woodcutter who witnessed the murder and rape?
What is the truth?
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March 15, 2007 08:28 PM