What, you're too good for a cat posting? Well, we aren't. Clearly. What with this week's solider/puppy/cliff incident that we are too weak to talk about much less link to, we feel it is our sovereign duty to highlight the sheer awesomeness of owning and loving a pet. For your consideration, we present to you Hugo. Hugo, you see, needs over a thousand baby spankings and belly rubs if you ask us. His disdain......

What? Come on, cats are %100 swell. (Crazy cat lady syndrome be damned!) In fact, felines kicking it in windowsills should have its own site as far as we're concerned. Very SF. This image was taken in Nob Hill. And the added touches of graffiti and cheap Levelor horizontal blinds (in Nob Hill!) make it that more melancholic. Image credit: SFist's Leanne Maxwell......

Hey, remember yesterday, when everyone at SFist chimed in on the "what to do when a homeless kid's dog bites your friend on the leg" question? We got quite a few interesting answers, and one suggestion that we get in touch with the good folks at San Francisco Animal Control to see what they suggest doing in those circumstances. Deb Campbell was kind enough to answer a few of our questions: What would Animal......

We were doing a little stumbling the other night and came across this curious flyer that was photographed at 18th and Capp, by Chris Brennan: "Lose a Small Furry Animal? Not a Dog or Cat. Call Scott: 415_______." Here's what Chris had to say about it: Funny thing is we knew the animal in question who was indeed not a dog or a cat, but a lost ferret. I think the ambiguity was twofold -......

The loss of Simone in last week's episode of "Project Runway" leaves us with one local left to root for. (Although as Rita pointed out in her recap of the show, Jack went to U.C. Berkeley, so that kind of counts. But we'll see how well Chris does before we set our sights on him...) At the beginning of the episode we were put through the always boring selection-of-the-models ritual. This could be a......

The only locals we're following right now are on the fabulous "Project Runway," but after last week's episode, we're going to have to get rid of that 's' in "locals." Read on. The first local we met was Chris March, who once worked as the wig master for Beach Blanket Babylon and can make dresses out of salad ingredients. Seriously. We were then introduced to everyone else and it wasn't until all the designers......

What with all of the oil spilling, disastrous Hawaiian vacations, neighborhood christening controversy, 49ers humiliation, and Yahoo, Inc.'s naming names, might we offer up, for your late night enjoyment, a crudely filmed cat that has captured SFist's cold, dead heart? Behold, heavy metal cat! (It's the hand at the beginning that makes the bit. Oh whatever, it's totally adorable!)......

-- Chicken John hosts the Loser's Ball. Which a lot progressives did. Lose, that is. [Politics Blog] -- Although Prop A might pass due to prog efforts. (See where horizontal pastels get you, Mr. Fisher?) [BeyondChron] -- Washington Packing Corporation's abandoned, graffitied tuna cannery. [WhatImSeeing] -- Bay Bridge fender bender spills "mysterious" oil into the Bay. [Oakland Tribune] -- Henry K. Lee live-blogs, as they say, on the Hans Reiser murder trial! [SFGate] --......

In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array of animation with a selection of the finest, boldest and most exciting animated films and videos from around the world, including frame-by-frame and computer-assisted animation. The festival opens with Leslie Iwerks' examination of Pixar, perhaps the best-known and most successful animation house......

Speaking of ILM, their Halloween party boasted one of the best costume ideas we've seen in eons. Behold, Ikeabots! So, for those of you who still think it's nifty to dress up as a sexy devil/cat, pirate, or Frank Chu, take note at these boss creations. This is how a Halloween costume is done. (Auto-start footage of the Ikeabots after the jump. If you're reading this in an RSS feeder, please click-thru. Alas.)......

Boo. And behold: Halloween happenings for Saturday night, 10/27. -- Karla LaVey's Satanic Halloween Party & Unholy Variety Show: Satan reigns supreme tonight "thrashing black-metal bands, theremin warblers, psychobilly greasers, cruel electronic-noise wizards, 'tranceformer' dancers, cinematic oddities, and, of course, vast oceans of demon liquor" (all liquor is demonic liquor, blasphemer!) Starts at 8 p.m. at the The Knockout; sliding-scale admission. -- Surya Dub Halloween Mashdown: What's scarier than hanging out at Sixth Street......

Photo of feral cat in GGP and thoughts as to why we seem to have fewer of them now...

But, Muni, try limiting our wait. (Ha! Oh stop!) SFist reader, Cior sent us this image she snapped up while waiting for the N-Judah this morning. 60 minutes for a 10 a.m. N-Judah seems a bit inexcusable. What's more, she called her boyfriend to see what NextMuni had to say online. Smart move. The site claimed arrivals at 1, 2 and 3 minutes. After waiting for over five, she went ahead and caught a......

Poor Cal-- so close yet so far. Our theory about what happened is that the idea of Cal having the #1 ranked team in the country was so crazy that even in this year (decade, actually) of sports craziness, the God of Sports deemed that just too crazy and set the upset in motion. Of course, we're also looking at the Rockies in the World Series, so whadda we know? Okay, before the Raiders recap,......

-- Tease-O-Rama Meet 'N' Greet: Before the sluts of the weekend-long burlesque convention Tease-O-Rama have you sporting erections via cheeky performances, come meet them for an intimate night of, um, conversation. Also, '60s, '70s, and '80s will flood the dance floor care of the California Kid. Starts at 9 p.m. at Rickshaw Stop; $5. -- St .Francis Day Animal Blessing: Yeah, this sounds like the best thing, ever. Come get your dog or cat......

A new blog purports to document cougar sightings from the S.F. dating scene. ...

Ick. And: heh. Along the lines of the Sex Offenders Registry -- though not nearly as destructive and fascinating -- we came across Rotten Neighbor, a site that lets you, dear readers, tattle on your neighbors' questionable behavior. Whether they party, play, blare the electro tunes, and never sleep; hate your children; hate your cat; hate sobriety; beat their spouses; store their bikes on their balcony; or refuse to cut their lawn, adults now......

As much as it amuses us to know how many of our straight male friends will actually click on a link promising naked pictures of teenage girls, we really feel the need to implore all of our MySpace friends out there to resist the temptation. You see, links like this serve one purpose. Even though we know that the internet is primarily for porn and reading SFist, there are evil people out there who......

You think Gavin means it when he tells Ken Garcia that it's kind of freaking him out that no one's running against him? Well, there's one more down: ABC 7's Dan Noyes has the scoop that Tony Hall has dropped out of the race too. Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and......

You know you've made it in San Francisco as a marginalized group when you start getting in fights with other marginalized groups -- so a local bisexual advocacy/social group is under fire for their policies excluding certain transgender persons. Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary doyenne and transgender......

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-- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk, and electro well into the morning hours. At least until 3 a.m., anyway. Starts at 9 p.m. at Cat Club, 1190 Folsom (at Eighth Street). -- Darrell Hammond: SNL comic comes to SF. He goes on at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. at Cobb's Comedy......

PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) is celebrating its china anniversary this year, with a celebration on Saturday at AT&T Park before the 1p.m. game. It’s hard to believe that this organization, which provides numerous services to low-income San Franciscans’ with HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses, has been around for 20 whole years. PAWS staff and volunteers do lots of stuff to help people keep and care for their adored pets. There’s dog walking, cat......

Now that there will be no city sanctioned Halloween debauchery in the Castro, Civic Center, or anywhere else, it'll be exciting to see the police state that's sure to erupt come 10/31. Even though, as Wyatt Buchanan reports in the Chronicle, "officials are still trying to prevent any festivities in the Castro" and that "Bevan Dufty sent a letter to 110 owners of bars, restaurants and stores in the Castro, asking them to close shop......

The SFPD arrested the guy who murdered the anti-crime activist in the Haight, Joe Konopka, in an S&M session gone wrong. They believe Konopka, who was found handcuffed, choked to death on plastic covering his face. After Konopka died, the murderer took his laptop, jewelry, and cell phone before fleeing the scene. Does anyone know what happened at 16th and South Van Ness Wednesday night? We walked by there around 9 p.m. and there were......

Think you can't cook? Have a slew of reasons why not? There's hope. Find out how and why one 60-year old Brit took inspiration from 101 Cookbooks to make dishes like creme brulee, corned beef hash, and Stilton pancetta chicken. It's never too late to learn, kiddoodles! Get buttered and floured (her term, and it totally makes us tingle!) over at alpineberry. Bing and Rainier cherries. Frangipane. Puff pastry. Yumminess. If it's an organizational......

Campus tree residency news! At Cal, it turns out those people living in the trees to protest the UC's plan to cut them down themselves did significant damage to the trees in question by cutting off the tops of the trees to put in their sleeping platforms. Ah, the sweet smell of irony. Meanwhile, at rival Stanford, they've finally evicted a veteran who's been living in the tree grove off Palm Drive for almost 10......

Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our fabulous five for last week -- the first week with a new guy in the top spot! -- follows....

On "America's Got Talent," Oakland schoolteacher Michael Strelo-Smith (check out his Web site and tell us just what the hell that thing in the upper left hand corner is) had a cold during his second performance, but sang anyway. Whether it was the cold, or his rather boring presentation, we can't say, but the judges deemed it not good enough, and he didn't make it to the Top 20. But Kashif and Boy Shakira......

As reported on the animal-loving SFGate/Chon, two leashed dogs were attacked by two coyotes (No, not them!) on Saturday morning on a trail near Speedway Meadow. Yikes, is right. So be careful out there in the park. An attack hasn't been reported here in well over ten years, but still, watch out while relaxing or working out in Golden Gate. And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They......