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By Joe Eskenazi in Politics

Mon., Oct. 26 2009 @ 7:30AM

Fiona Ma, she of the "bat guana" Tweet

Last week, we once again ventured into the surreal world of Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's Twitter feed -- where you should watch where you step. The former San Francisco supervisor has demonstrated a remarkable tendency to Tweet the shit, so to speak -- the subject of excrement is discharged with delightful regularity (you bet the pun is intended).

So, last week, we noted that Ma casually mentioned explosive bovine diarrhea as a factor in where one should sit at a livestock auction. Is this so? We contacted a former top-notch manure shoveler -- and candidate for the state Board of Equalization -- introduced via yet another fecal Ma Tweet. And Chris Parker declared it is so.

So when we found an e-mail from Ma waiting in our inbox, we anticipated we were in deep shit. And it was true. The Assemblywoman rightfully chided our reporting skills. How, she asked, could we neglect to point out the time she Tweeted about bat shit?

Lo, we did indeed miss it:

Nice day 4 Lake County wineries: Steele, Shannon Ridge, Brassfield Est, Gregory Graham & Ceago-touting Biodynamics, lavender & bat guana.

We have no idea what the hell that's all about -- but, indeed, Fiona Ma was tweeting about bat shit. And we dropped the ... ball.

And on a serious note, on the very day of our article about Ma's Tweet regarding loose bull bowels, the assemblywoman spoke at a B2B conference. Her subject: "How Twitter works in the life of a politician."

You just can't make this shit up.

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