By Elaine Santore

June 30, 2008

Here’s a new feature at Fog City Journal where we take one really boring speech, set it to music, and see if the added music can make a video more interesting.

This week: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris listen to Police Chief Heather Fong drone on about gun violence reduction initiatives. The 10-minute speech-a-thon has been cut to 3 minutes and 44 seconds and set to Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine.”

Here’s a close-up photo of Kamala and Gavin taken during the speech:

Mayor Gavin Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris.
Photo by Luke Thomas

Check out their body language. Gavin is practically hiding behind Kamala. Maybe he was still embarrassed about this?