This is probably more for the benefit of music fans who like the eclectic brand of indie music coming out of San Fran than for a Giants fans. Still, it’s cool and for a good cause.

To keep commemorating the World Series, a group of San Fran-based bands and record label True Panther have put together a victory mix called Finally Champions. It features mostly unreleased tracks with , such as Giants Defiance by Vinnie Rat, Finally Champions by Dominant Legs, and Book It by Ezeetiger & The Sound Guys – a group I could see Brian Wilson subscribing to for his pregame relaxation mix.

Heed that ‘Donate $1′ button, and donate a buck to the SF Coalition On Homelessness.

(via Stereogum)

On September 14, 2009, the great Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer and passed away too young at the age of 57. Swayze had a prolific acting career, one that inspired his devoted fan base to believe that if anyone could beat this disease it was him (Swayze played a bank robbing surf ninja and villainous sky diving enthusiast in Point Break. Cancer? No problem, compadre). He was diagnosed in January of 2008 with a sickness that most people will succumb to in under a year – he held on for 20+ months. During that time period, his 1989 film Road House was the most broadcast movie on American television in the past year according to Rolling Stone – airing 45 times on AMC, A&E and CMT. Maybe you were lucky enough to flip it on and catch a riveting scene like this…

In lieu of burying Swayze with Dalton’s medical dossier, each Tuesday during football season I’ll be awarding one player the “Pain Don’t Hurt” Award to honor Swayze’s memory. This week’s recipient: Frank Gore of the San Francisco 49ers.

On Sunday, Frank Gore was Loaded like a freight train. Flyin’ like an aeroplane, so to speak. GNR reference.

In self-serving Fantasy Football news, this brute’s 207 yards on 16 carries and 2 TDs scored me 40 points, and has moved me to rename the team “Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank.” I’m excited. Check out that pair of touchdowns here – the second coming on an 80 yard scamper to start the second half…

That first touchdown run, a lackadaisical 79 yards. He joins Barry Sanders as the only RB to have two 70+ yard TD runs in one game in NFL history.

Gore suffered an ankle sprain in the second half versus the Seahawks. The X-rays came back negative and he’s listed as probable for this Sunday’s contest against the Vikings.

Yahoo’s Mike Silver asks, If Frank Gore runs like he did Sunday, will he give the great Adrian Peterson a run for his money in the Metrodome this weekend?

The 2010 “Pain Don’t Hurt” Awards:

Week One: Brandon Meriweather

Who saw this coming (Not I), Brian Boitano’s Food Network show (What Would Brian Boitano Make?, premiering in August) could be brutally awesome.

Well, I’m in for at least one episode.

According to NBCBayArea.com, a recent episode shoot entailed WWBBD slugging bacontinis and hanging out with the Bay Area Derby Girls, San Fran’s Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby team.

Boitano’s production team was looking for subjects when they came across the Bay Area Derby Girls, our local flat track roller derby league, and wanted to do a show with them but wasn’t sure how to incorporate food into the mix.

Chesty Gillespie, number 34DD of the Oakland Outlaws (of which my wife, Deadly Nightshade, is a starting blocker), was asked if she had any ideas of how to do a segment for the show and she said that roller girls love bacon. In fact, many of them, Gillespie included, have bacon tattoos!

I like the throw it on the wall and see what sticks, Rock N’ Roll production strategy of the Boitano camp. And as a thank you gesture, Boitano is inviting the Derby girls over for a multi-course meal of bacon at his San Francisco home.

Boitano, the master of pork chivalry, indeed. (run with that one if you like…)

For context purposes,

This is a bacontini…



This is a Chesty Gillespie…

And this is the South Park gem that, in my opinion, allowed Boitano to maintain the inkling of cachet that earned him a shot at a Food Network show…

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Brian Boitano, Food Network Star? (The Food Section)

Boitano, Bacon and Booze, Oh My! (NBC Bay Area)