Jay Barmann

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• Posted Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dinosaur Jr.'s "Over It" to SFist
  With the new album, The Farm, J Mascis and the gang return to mid-nineties form in sound and song writing. They're performing at The Fillmore tonight and we believe there are still some tickets available. The video above embarrasses us a little, if only because they're all a little old to be on skateboards and BMXs, but we suppose that's the point....
• Commented on Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival?
  Right you are! Thx. Photo swapped. Goes to show how much we're personally invested in this thing....
• Posted Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival? to SFist
  According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF, this is "the phone [she's] been waiting for." What do you think, dear readers? Certainly Apple deserves a worthy rival, but has the iPhone just been around too long and the market for apps just become such a monolothic thing to overcome...
• Posted SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino to SFist
  As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and spirits -- so that means if there's a point in time when there are no local limes available, all the drinks will be made without limes, and all the drinks are made with local liquors. Camino was opened last year by...
• Posted Murderous Crazy Edward Wycoff May Get Death Penalty in El Cerrito Murders to SFist
  We feel compelled to update you on Edward Wycoff, the Sacramento County truck driver who killed his sister and brother-in-law, Paul and Julie Rogers, in their El Cerrito home in 2006 because they had "screwed up" his family. The completely batshit insane, lawyer-hating, egomaniacal bigot, who was somehow allowed to represent himself at trial despite the fact that he obviously has a personality disorder of some kind and might be legally insane, was convicted...