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May 31, 2008

Photo by zippy_monster/Flickr Please advise....

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May 30, 2008

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just around the corner. Sign up now and get $50 in driving credit! The Asian Art Museum, presenting its MATCHA series the first Thursdays from 5-9pm. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....

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Photo by hillarys_quivering_lip Found on the sidewalk at 9th & Harrison this mornong, this makes us sad for some reason. Poor Wiggles....

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(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz R.O.T....

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May 29, 2008

Blogging service LiveJournal.com, formerly owned by San Francisco-based SixApart up until December 2007 and now owned by Russian-based media company SUP (with its USA-based LiveJournal, Inc. offices located here at 576 Folsom St.), is currently holding its first annual User Representative Election for a seat on the LiveJournal Advisory Board. The duties include traveling to Istanbul once a year (free vacation!) for an in-person meeting with other Board members along with quarterly conference calls...

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May 29, 2008

Photo by jimheid/Flickr When ordering an after-dinner tea at Slanted Door, you'll be asked, "Smokey or floral?" This is what you get with "floral." Isn't it loverly?...

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Former Marin resident and current insane person, Sharon Stone, made the following Jerry Falwell-ish quip the other day. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine ... I'm not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else ... All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma?' When you are not nice, bad...

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May 28, 2008

This morning in the Western Addition, a woman escaped the cold hands of death after a bullet went right through her window and into her TV. Yikes. Watching it around 2:30 a.m. -- and clearly a fan of either The King of Queens or San Francisco-based Half & Half -- the unidentified woman was not injured. The gunfire, it seems, resulted from a fight going on just outside her Eddy Street building. One unidentified...

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Congratulations to SFist Editor Brock Keeling for winning the Best Blogger title in SFWeekly's annual Best Of edition! It of course comes as no surprise to us that Brock is being honored along with the likes of Best Iconic Bay Area Newscaster Dennis Richmond and Best Mansion, Spreckels Mansion! Since its launch in 2004, SFist (part of the Gothamist family of blogs) has become a reliably eccentric source for local news and gossip. And,...

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Photo by anitakhart/Flickr We've seen this poster, and variations thereof, scattered about the city as of late. We're not sure what we think of them....

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May 27, 2008

Frank Chu, 48, the Bay Ara;s favoritest pathological resident, has a Wikipedia page, naturally. It goes into much detail about his media whoring, numerous protest signs, and "performance art." It also mentions the following (and, of course, alleged) Chu-helmed hostage crisis: In early 1985, Chu, then 24 years old, took 11 members of his family hostage in his home in Oakland and was reported to have been beating some with his fists. Chu fired...

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Photo by own very own SFist Dan Gavin delivered the commencement speech to SFSU students this past weekend. We don't know what he said, exactly. (Does it even matter? Commencement speeches are nothing but tissues of lies, right?) But, boy, he sure does look good awash in eggplant and forest green....

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Photo by SMACKDOWNHOTEL44/Flickr Does this mean Oh noes! Be careful! We have poison on our grass and don't want your dog to get hurt? Or does it mean, Your dog craps on our lawn, and we're going to murder it? We prefer to think it's the former. Although the above photo was snapped in the Marina, so... it's anyone's guess....

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It feels like everyone here migrated from the Midwest or somewhere. But next time we run into that rare breed, the born-and-raised San Franciscan, we'll have to ask: did you, as a kid, attend Adventures in Music, aka. AIM, the outreach program from the San Francisco Symphony? AIM organizes (and pays for) performances by smaller ensembles in each of the schools of the SFUSD for 1st to 4th graders, and invite them all to special morning concerts at Davies Symphony Hall. Did the introduction leave you with a taste for music? Were you looking forward for these performances by diverse small ensembles playing for small-ish goups of kids coming to your school? Was it the high point of the week? Did you discover new sounds, new instruments, new music styles? Did you teacher tie up the program into the curriculum? Were you able to comprehend music differently, to see connections with physics, geography, architecture? The eduction program is blowing twenty candles this year, so a slew of kids who went through it (22,000 a year!) must be now SFist commenters. Teachers, feel free to give us your view too! We got questions, you got answers. Tell us how going to Davies Symphony Hall as a first grader was awesome, or exciting, or, goodness forbid, boring. Was it your first classical music experience? Your first time in a concert hall? Was your conductor at the time "kinda hot" (in the words of one of our commenters) like Benjamin Shwartz, who leads the orchestra for the AIM concerts nowadays? Did you notice kinda hot boys back then? Little perv, you were seven!...

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May 26, 2008

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May 25, 2008

We're gargantuan fans of local photographer Darwin Bell. Famous for his use of polaroids, his digital images are just as spectacular. The above shot ("the chocolate orgy ended in love") is an old favorite....

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May 24, 2008

Photo by davitydave/Flickr Bitch looks fierce. Heh....

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May 23, 2008

Photo by the brilliant Darwin Bell...

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(By Eyleen Tavy) After a disturbingly easy commute, no line at Blue Bottle, and 15 minutes spent deleting the zillions of Out of Office emails that cluttered our inbox, we're ready to face the day. And, in the words of that damned Carrie Bradshaw, we had to wonder just who is at work today? We know why we're here (absent boss, parsimonious with vacation days, Bagel Radio's 480 Minutes sounds better on our office...

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May 22, 2008

Photo by Steve Rhodes/Flickr Rent control: yes/no?...

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(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz R.O.T....

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May 21, 2008

Found at 18th and Castro, this autobiographical poster tells the tale of someone whop would like to stop smoking. And you can help! See, he would like to you top purchase him Walgreens gift cards (in any amount!) in order for him to purchase nicotine patches. Way to go, stranger. And good luck with that....

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(By Eyleen Tavy) Following a link on the always-excellent Eater SF's Board Wrap (they lurk so we don't have to), we came across this sterling remark: "A friend of mine who lives in the Financial District asked me not to call it FiDi." What? We didn't know this was bad. We feel like the well-meaning folks who try to engage us when we go back home to Delaware, all "So how's it in San...

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