Friday night, while we were hanging out with the SXSW crew for a last hurrah, friend (and roommate) of SFist Bayete got a last minute invite to an impromptu fight night at the club house of the inimitable East Bay Rats. While there he took some absolutely fantastic photos, and lucky for us, suggested that we may want to use one. We saw the pictures and said, "Hey, mind if we use a few?"......

We've crashed the SFMoma Tenth Anniversary. We've crashed an East Bay Rats party. Last Friday, we crashed the nerdiest party ever, and we loved it. Not just because of all the free goodness from Google. But because geeks love nerds, even if we can't understand what the hell they're talking about. The party was for CodeCon, San Francisco's very own indie coder convention. As Technorati's Niall Kennedy put it, "When I was growing up,......

If anyone ever invites you to an East Bay Rats party, cancel whatever plans you may already have and go. Seriously. SFist has never seen anything quite like what we saw Saturday night -- a three ring circus of awesomeness, including a ring of fire, a boxing ring, and the ring of music. If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere......