Thanks to This Week's Advertisers

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

  • Virgin America, with its new non-stop route from LAX and SFO to Ft. Lauderdale starting 11/18.
  • Pirate Radio,the new comedy starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, from the creator of Love Actually. In theatres 11/13.
  • GroupOn, using collective buying power to bring you one ridiculous coupon each day.
  • American Apparel, with 3 stores in San Francisco, you can look your best after dark.

If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit.

Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival?

According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF, this is "the phone [she's] been waiting for."

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kristen Wiig Reading From the Early Poems of Suzanne Somers

This was part of the Celebrity Autobiography series. What more do you need to know? [Hat tip: Le Fag site semi-NSFW]

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"Gentryfier go Home!" by Darwin Bell. Shot in NOPA/Western Addition.

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Upright Citizens Brigade's "Obamacare" Ad

We know we're preaching to the converted here (for the most part), and we probably should have caught this semi-gruesome spoof ad by NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade (which once gave birth to Amy Poehler) before Halloween. But here it is, nevertheless, because it still gives us a chuckle, and everybody's in a political mood today anyhow.

Ask SFist: Homeless Folks And Their Pets

SFist received a pressing (albeit insensitive and Nevius-esque) question in the editor's inbox this afternoon. Perhaps you can help? A reader (who asked to remain anonymous) writes:

Interspecies Muni Line

This is amazing. Someone must have dropped some fast food wrappers or chicken bones on that bus or something, or as Jim Herd suspects, the drivers feed them. (Yeah, we know this photo has been posted all over the place today, but who can resist?!)

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"Emergence" by Darwin Bell.

              

Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was into it.

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