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The skies above San Francisco just got a little quieter. According to SFAppeal/BCN, "Heavy fog in San Francisco caused the cancellation of today's Blue Angels air show, a spokeswoman for Fleet Week said." The show was scheduled to start at 3 p.m.

by Amy Crocker

       

A little airborne Viagra with your coffee, anyone? Here are a few shots from yesterday's practice aerial acrobatics. Fleet Week, for those of you who don't know, starts tomorrow.

Via M.K.: " today was not a good day for an entire morning of meditation. Thanks Blue Angels."

In honor (or disgust) at the Blue Angels arrival in Baghdad by the Bay, please enjoy this clip of the Blue Angels set to Van Halen's "Dreams," off of 5150.

Can you hear them? They're just overhead. And interrupting our typically peaceful lunch hour. Anyway, if you snap a shot of them flying above, send them our way. Or, better yet, tag them with 'sfist' in your Flickr account.

The (controversial) Blue Angels are supposed to fly "in formation into San Francisco International Airport Tuesday, days before the city's annual Fleet Week celebration officially kicks off." To check out a full list of Fleet Week events -- which will include air shows, ship tours, a parade, parties, and more -- go here. The always popular two-day Fleet Week Air Show happens this Saturday and Sunday.

This was mentioned in Day Around the Bay, but it's so Inside Edition-y hot right now, we felt compelled to capture some of its momentum and give it its own post. Anyway, the above headline comes courtesy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "That's the headline we'd be reading," says SFBG Editor Tim Redmond, "if one of the Navy stunt pilots had the same misfortune as the FA/18 pilot just did in San Diego." He goes on to point that this is something to think about come next year's Fleet Week air acrobatics. "If the supervisors decided not to invite the Navy precision flying team, they wouldn't come." Which: True. The tightness of those white Navy pants are exhilarating enough; however, others are livid that the crash is being used like this. But what say you?

It seems that NBC 11 caught Bill O'Reilley's film crew taking in the (non)X-rated partying that went on at last Saturday's Erotic Exotic Ball. This week he'll devoted an entire segment to the annual "sexy" Halloween fete, and even have the ball’s founder, Perry Mann, on as a guest.

More jet madness!

-- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc]

-- Did you call your district supervisor to halt the Blue Angels today? Neither did we. [IndyBay]

-- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron]

-- The very attractive Yusuf Bey IV, Your Black Muslim Bakery chief and sudden media darling, now faces real-estate scam charges. Gulp again, dude. [Chron]

The Blue Angels get to stay. Vroom. Woosh.

-- Newsom bats his eyes at progressives. [BeyondChron]

As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today.

This is all Ed Jew's fault. We were so distracted by updating you on the latest in his woes that we the news that we just got from a favorite reader that previous SFist obsession District 6 Supe Chris Daly threw one of his famous fits at the Board of Supes meeting today! NO! How did we miss this?

While San Francisco is known globally for a certain worldview, those of us who actually live here know that when it comes down to particulars, we don't often agree. We can't agree on Blue Angels. We can't agree on a Muni solution. Heck, we can't even agree on what to do about Ed Jew (oh no!). But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity required (save, perhaps, for reading lights).

You know we'd say Chris Daly backed down from a fight, especially not in the title of a post!

Every Monday, Logler.com presents its "Casual Games Global Top 10," a list ranked by data from major download portals. Just so happens that the number one game this week is called "Big City Adventure: San Francisco," by Jolly Bear Games.

Hey, everyone -- here are the semi-arbitrary Top 5 Comments of the Week. For this, our fourth week of doing it, we thought it'd be a swell idea to try it out in easy-to-access text form. See below for commenters whom SFist's editors thought raised the game, made us laugh, or were otherwise notable, and click through to read the actual comments as written.

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too?

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us.

Last year, we wrote in praise of Fleet Week, mainly because of those nifty Blue Angels who do those stunts high on up in the sky. We might love them (well, not all of us) but other people don't like them primarily for the reason that they could be quite dangerous, especially when they fly over the city. But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 51.

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Josh Wolf's mom writes a letter, as does transgender activist Chris Daley and an angry rebutter to Hiya Swanhuyser 's article about a rural rock documentary. The Bouncer's article about Huey Lewis and the mentally disabled won an award and is included in the Best Music Writing of 2006 anthology. Congrats, Bouncer! Are you an Apologist for the Blue Angels? If you're SFist Jon, the answer is yes. Skater art in the basement of the Hall of Justice. Cover article: Did a local fisherman get killed in a hit and run boating accident in the Bay? Chris Daly, not the transgender activist, will be at the CELLspace 10th Anniversary party on Saturday. Meredith eats at the Westfield Food Court -- sorry, we meant "Emporium." SFist Ced is so disgusted by this, he refuses to review it. An awesome Shins fan at the Download Music Fest. Lily Allen says some crazy stuff, and Bing Ji Ling picks his favorite ice cream places. And Matt Gonzalez's horoscope: do whatever Rufus Wainwright does.

We had one of those crazy MUNI rider experiences on Saturday, on the 22 Fillmore (yes going to watch the Blue Angels). We had originally written a long, detailed post about everything that happened but then realized nobody wants to read long posts as everybody pretty much reads this at work anyways and doesn't have time to read long posts. So we'll try and be brief. But anyways, to make a long story short, this guy gets on at Haight Street and tells the driver he's only going to go for a stop or two because he's just looking for somebody. The driver lets him on. It's pretty obvious that the guy who got on is a little on the crazy side, not homeless-crazy, but more like still-functioning-and-normal-looking-but-did-a-little-too-much-acid-in-the-60’s crazy.