We'll do the partying and/or dying, so you don't have to. Homebound denizens of San Francisco, the Bay Area, and the world at large. Our editor, Brock, will be coming at you live from the Castro all night. We'll bring you live reportage of the costumes, "unsanctioned gaiety," Dachau-like police state, public urination, and/or absolutely nothing happening at all whatsoever. Stay tuned. 10:45 Update: That's it. We're done here, folks. If there's a shooting......

Joe Gallagher says, "Waaaah!" Don't forget, in just a couple of hours, Ted Strawser, founder of SFPartyParty, will be moderating a Halloween and Public Events debate between the Mayoral Candidates in the Castro at the Harvey Milk Plaza (Castro Muni Station). Watch as they call each other names and declare/deny next Wednesday's (un)Halloween in the Castro to be a disaster area the likes of San Diego!......

We thought the snow was weird enough, but what about last night's sudden thunderstorm? For about half-an-hour last night, the heavens provided better water pressure than we get in our apartment. Did you get caught in the downpour last night? We did. We exited the Castro Muni station a little after 6 last night, and were immediately completely soaked (amazingly, our SFist messenger bag remained impervious to the elements). The cause of the deluge:......

We here at SFist tip our Tom of Finland (faux) leather cap to the Peter Berlin Look-A-Like contestants at last Friday's Opening Night Gala for That Man: Peter Berlin, because it was freakin' COLD. As we stepped out of the Castro Muni Metro stop, clad in coat and gloves and other things we thought we'd left behind in the Midwest, we spied folks in teeny shorts and mini dresses, all gussied up for the......

There's a lot going on in this picture, snapped last night in the Castro Muni station (click it for a larger version), so let's begin our reading with the original author's intent. Those irritating PSP ads (as opined about on Gothamist, discussed by a commenter, and complained about by lots of local bloggers) have finally been put in their place -- a billboard. Rather than being slapped up on peoples' walls in their neighborhoods, Sony's......

Perhaps you've noticed the Japanese graffiti that's popped up in the Castro MUNI stop? (And all this time, we thought French was queens' second language.) We've been wondering what the hasty scrawl means, so we inquired of Tian, proprieter of Hanzi Smatter (a blog about western misuse of Chinese) and contributor to our sister site Shanghaiist. According to Tian's Japanese associate, and you may need to install the Japanese language pack to read this......