Recorded in San Francisco's wonderful South Beach/South of Market area.

The opening theme song is taken from General Fuzz's song Throwdown.

This episode features a song by Love Is Chemicals called Claw Your Sweater.  By the way, Love Is Chemicals is playing at 12 Galaxies on February 1st if you would like to check them out live.

PC Munoz provides the other two songs on this episode. The first is called California (featuring Jackson Browne w/p-tac). The second is a country sounding ditty called She Gave Me a Bit of Heaven But I Hope She Goes to Hell.

All the music on this episode of SOMAcast was found on the Podshow Podsafe Music Network.

Some of the other issues discussed:

• Murders in San Francisco going unsolved - about 25% solved now compared to around 50% under Willie Brown's administration. Also of note, burglaries and robberies.
• Handicap placards outnumber City parking meters by a ratio of 4-to-1. No wonder we (citizens who make up San Francisco's electorate) aren't making much money on parking meters.
• $1 billion boon doggle waiting to happen in the form of a proposed Central Subway MUNI line to run from Caltrain at 4th and Townsend north on 4th Street to Chinatown.  The underground section would begin around Brannan, I believe, as currently proposed.  This is just stupid - the MUNI bus system works fine through this route (granted, 3rd street is a block over in SOMA, but a $1 billion Big Dig is just dumb at this stage).
• I'm concerned about pedestrians getting hit by vehicles way to often in the City. More specifically, the intersections on streets that feed the Bay Bridge traffic are very dangerous considering the new residential units being built in the area (Rincon One and Infinity).  I posted my concern on Yelp.com, and I got some good suggestions. The best came from Alissa W who, along with some others, suggested that pedestrians and vehicle traffic take turns entering the intersections, similar to what happens at Stockton and O'Farrell or Montgomery and Sansome.  These are the streets that would be good to change to this vehicle/pedestrian traffic light system:

• Main and Folsom

• Main and Harrison

• Fremont and Folsom

• 1st and Folsom

• 1st and Harrison 

• 2nd and Folsom

• 2nd and Harrison

• 2nd and Bryant

• Please write to Gavin Newsom at gavin.newsom@sfgov.org along with your Supervisor to ask that this be set up.  This is our City, and we need to be safer when walking or driving around town.
• Chris.Daily@sfgov.org
• Michela.Alioto-Pier@sfgov.org
• Tom.Ammiano@sfgov.org
• Bevan.Dufty@sfgov.org
• Sean.Elsbernd@sfgov.org
• Ed.Jew@sfgov.org
• Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org
• Jake.McGoldrick@sfgov.org
• Ross.Mirkarimi@sfgov.org 
• Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org
• Gerardo.Sandoval@sfgov.org

Be involved in your community - it is your investment/money that runs this place, so you need to take responsibility and manage these folks elected/employed to spend it wisely and to keep San Francisco the beautiful, wonderful attraction it is to folks around the world.

Have a good week - Go Chicago Bears! - jamie