What A Week It Was!

Thanks to all the antics of our elected local LA leaders and others, this was a great week for the blog. Unique visits to the blog were up nearly 170% and pageviews 217% over the same week in May. Even weekend traffic - notoriously slow - is four times normal.

I also had the privilege to appear on Kevin James radio show. Kevin's support of the blog has been phenomenal. Too, many of our writers have recently appeared on various radio programs.

The news we got today was also exciting: the blog moved up on BlogNetNews.com's California Influence Index from number14 out of twenty last week to number 7 - ahead of the Westside White Guy and the highest rated LA county based blog on the list.

And in case you missed any of it all, here are some of the highlight posts:

• City Lets Illegals Revoke Citizen's Permit
• The Small Town Rocky Delgadillo
• Daily News blog Friendly Fire getting dustier
• The REAL Reason LA Times Decided To Print Rocky Delgadillo "Dirt" NOW: To HELP Villariagosa's City Attorney Candidate Jackass Weiss!
• Soncha and Baby Villar Watch Day 9 "Spinning Letter to the Editor"

Open Thread for Thursday

Hey kids due to the Kevin James interview Wednesday night, no time for a Hotsheet so I'll let you guys blog, spin and post graffiti on this article.

Random thoughts:

It was an amazing experience to sit in studio with Kevin James at KRLA. Kevin is a true gentleman and a consulate professional. Watching him in studio you see how hard he works to produce a great show. And his behind the microphone team are a great bunch of guys. I am sorry we didn't get time to take calls, but there's lots going on.

Due to what Kevin calls "The Perfect Storm" of June 2007 in Los Angeles politics, analytics here are through the roof. Compared to the same three day period last week visits to the blog are up 151.24%, pageviews are up 210.61%, average time on site is up 39.44%, referrals from the Westside White Guy up 244% and traffic from computers on the City of Los Angeles network is up a whopping 464.81% (yea who said the 3rd floor isn't spinning, cutting and pasting?). Also the top keyword search term bringing folks to the blog - after various combinations of "Mayor Sam" - both last week and this week - is you guessed it - Mirthala Salinas, this week up 580% over last week. Thanks to everyone for their support and to all our bloggers - Zuma Dogg, Red Spot, Joe M., Joe B., Walter and AW who've been cranking out the content.

If you listened to Kevin Wednesday night he spoke of a caller who privately told him a few months back about one of the the topics contained in SONCHA WATCH. We are hoping this lady will call Kevin and elaborate on how she knew this months before any of us. I told Kevin that she had this story months before anyone else tells me, well, uh, it might more likely to be true than anyone thought. Like they say, where there's smoke...

So I am off to dreamland but feel free to blog away on the Kevin James show, Antonio, Rocky, Baca, Weiss or any of the other characters who are part of our daily soap opera here on the Mayor Sam blog.

"BLOGGIN RADIO WAVES WITH HIGBY AND JAMES!!

As I type these words, "SPELL CHECK BE DAMMED", our own Mayor Sam and the "ONE AND ONLY" Kevin James are on the air.

BLOG AWAY!!

Post your word by word critique.

Mayor Sam Needs A Favor

Howdy kids,

I don't usually ask my readers for a personal favor but I need help recording the interview I will do with Kevin James tonight on KRLA at 10 p.m. I having trouble getting our trusty computers here at Mayor Sam Studios to do so. If you could record the stream for me at www.krla870am.com and then later I can show you how you can send the file to me via the web I would appreciate it!

See you on the radio! Feel free to call in!

** UPDATE: Thanks to the gracious generosity of Kevin James and his rockin' producer Sonn, I got a CD right after the show! And thanks to Antonio Watch for also putting together an MP3 and Joe B. for the same. Hope you folks got to listen.

Listen to Mayor Sam on The Kevin James Show

It is my honor to appear as an in-studio guest of our favorite talkradio host - Kevin James - Wednesday evening on KRLA AM 870. Be sure tune Kevin in at 9:00 p.m.; I'll be on the program in the 10:00 hour. If you can't get AM 870 on your radio, click here to listen to KRLA's live stream.

ZD UPDATE THREAD: 912 REVIEW COMMISSION MEETING TONIGHT at 6:30pm & Mayor Sam "LIVE" on Kevin James This Week

SHADY ALERT: It's a 911 about the 912 REVIEW COMMISSION MEETING TONIGHT First of all, the shadiest bunch of stakeholders in the community, Los Angeles Neighborhood Council's "912 Review Commission" (ooooh...big fancy title...where's the "Dragnet" sounder), will jerk each other off this evening at 6:30pm in the DWP building downtown. (Fraud attracts fraud.) Hopefully, a stakeholder will boogie down to the Skid Row infested "dead as a doornail" downtown building to go, "on-the-record" and do a little recap of all the f*cking bullsh*t, non-sense these wannabe clowns think they are getting away with. [Well they may have been getting away with it, but they aren't fooling anyone. Hopefully, someone can print out my "Racketeering Complaint" against NC, attend the meeting -- and read it, during public comment.]

The purpose of public comment isn't to try and pursuade these desparate community backstabbers, themselves, that NC is nothing more than a big "Planning and Development" racket (they can stick earplug in they ears for all I care, those desperate Charter violators: It's to go "on-record", which paves the way for any legal action, down the line. (If you do not go on the record at these public hearings, you cannot take legal action down the line.)

MAYOR SAM "LIVE IN STUDIO" ON KEVIN JAMES: Listen for MAYOR SAM, of MAYOR SAM'S SISTER CITY BLOG...LIVE IN STUDIO...Wednesday 10pm hour on Kevin James (AM 870-KRLA)! [On the heels of Walter Moore's "In Studio" apperance, last week.]

OPENING ACT: Before Sam on James, catch Zuma Dogg on (Eastside pillar) Jose Aguilar's TIME-WARNER TV show, Thursday at 8pm on ALL TIME-WARNER Public Access channels in L.A. (Serious half hour of heat!)

And check out all the latest ZUMA "Bat" Gadgets, like new shady-fighting "custom" search engines, and the Glassell Park/Citywide NC corruption stories for tonight's 912 jerk-off session at ZumaTimes.com. donate to ZAP/ZT