Entries from SFist tagged with 'humor'
June 27, 2008
Sent to some bodyshot-partying Marina chick, Dimitri's desperate voicemails had us at "Greek," and "maybe you were abused in childhood." Swoon. (Update: here's an article about said stalker Dimitri, via our swell sister site Torontoist.) Thank you, Mr. West, for sending this our way.......
Continue Reading "Behold Dimitri the Stud/Stalker"June 25, 2008
If you haven't been to comedy club as of late, you might be curious about the overabundance of women-and-yogurt commercials. Well, here's a delightful look at the attempts to get females to consume abnormal amounts of this sweet, cultured milk product. Enjoy.......
Continue Reading "Women, Yogurt, and Pooping: a Love Story"June 18, 2008
Photo by the Zachness/Flickr 1-877-LIKE-POT. Hee! Yeah, we're 12-years-old. And?......
Continue Reading "Photo du Jour 150"March 11, 2008
In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out Berkeley and its Marine corps nonsense getting skewered last night care of Jon Stewart's clan. It's chock full of funny. (Except the overt and cruel hippie-hating part, which we find not only a played out but a bit dangerous; there's nothing......
Continue Reading "Berkeley + Daily Show Segment = Hee"January 23, 2008
This is rich. The San Francisco Police Department are now having to investigate their own brethren. It appears that last Saturday morning, SFPD missed finding a firearm on a female suspect being booked into the Tenderloin station. A police spokersperson would only confirm that "officers heard a shot come from the holding area just after 11:00 Saturday morning. When they went in officers found a woman detainee and a small handgun on the floor.......
Continue Reading "Dame Fires Gun in Holding Area After SFPD Botch Search"December 10, 2007
And then things like this make us fall in like-like with Los Angeles all over again. This brings up a good point, what happened to intriguing public access shows in San Francisco? Although we must admit that while "Farrakhan Speaks," "Combat Mortal," and "Diva TV" look promising, we've never seen them. Are they any good? Are there any interesting locally produced cable access shows like the one above? Preferably ones with poop/hurtful humor? And......
Continue Reading "Painting, Exercising, and Blending Drinks With aNovember 30, 2007
November 28, 2007
Let's face it, underneath all of our progressive thinking and alleged altruism, we're a vain city. Thank God. After all, we are Californians nestled in a land of impossible waistlines and beauty. That said, is the above image what the double decker buses will look like? (Minus the tasteful Las Vegas backdrop, of course.) Hmm, we really didn't think this through. We thought that we'd be seeing ever so charming red double decker buses......
Continue Reading "Calling Into Question Double Decker Bus Aesthetics "November 19, 2007
Many, many people want to know just what, pray tell, goes on inside the mind of Barry Bonds. Or maybe just a handful do. Who's to say? And much like the fog-laced hills of San Francisco, he is a complicated man of mystery. Or perhaps he's just a greedy, self-centered prick. (Deep down, who isn't? And remember, some people strongly defend the guy, like ESPN's Jemele Hill did just today.) Again, who's to say?......
Continue Reading "Really, What Was He Thinking?"November 17, 2007
SFist Grace checks out a sneak peek of the new P.T. Anderson movie, There Will Be Blood. There will also be: greed, husksterism, rage, isolation and open-handed brawls. The Castro Theatre recently hosted a sneak preview of this film, which is slated for limited release in mid-December. Based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, Anderson's latest film features Daniel Day-Lewis as David Plainview, an unpredictably violent and spiritually aimless oil-baron-in-the-making. Shot in the desolate......
Continue Reading "As Good As His Word: P.T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood"November 13, 2007
Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. The Hives - The Black and White Album: The first song, "Tick Tick Boom" opens up with clanging of the drums and guitar tuning following with a huge guitar and drum entrance. Instantly your head starts to bob up and down. As the song progresses the bobbing turns into a rocked-out-90's-head-bang. We absolutely love the climax into the......
Continue Reading "New Tunes Tuesday #9"October 26, 2007
SFist interviews Mike Birbiglia and gives away tickets to his upcoming show at Cobb's. ...
Continue Reading "SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia"October 16, 2007
Anyways, Sean saw this, failed to see any humor in it, and made his offer to be the money bags to everyone's favorite "hunky-hipster attorney". Again, we don't know if this is true or what the what is with the story. It could be a joke, a crazy rumor, or something Sean and Matt jokingly talked about while drinking some wine and discussing the finer points of Costas Gravas's L'Aveu. ...
Continue Reading "More On That Crazy Sean Penn Story"October 4, 2007
Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano. He started to talk about Schoenberg, and after a few minutes, a voice rose from the audience: "Shut up, and play!" Ok, he said, and sat down at the piano, playing the Schoenberg piece. The voice rose again: "Rather, talk!" András......
Continue Reading "SFist Interviews András Schiff"September 13, 2007
We'll confess to having never really listened to Wolf Parade; maybe we got them confused with Mice Parade, and we've always though Wolfmother sounded pretty derivative, so they just fell through the cracks for us. But one of the two lead songwriters in Wolf Parade, Dan Boeckner, has a band with his wife Alexei Perry called Handsome Furs which we're really liking. It's a little dark and dire while still being melodic and engaging; we......
Continue Reading "When The Lights Go Down In The City"September 13, 2007
Wired Magazine has an interesting feature piece on what we believe to be one of those "only in San Francisco" kinda businesses: a mechanic who not only specializes in hybrids, but attempts to run a green garage. ...
Continue Reading "New Auto Shop Takes Green Pretty Seriously"July 31, 2007
Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh"June 28, 2007
Andrea and her pal hit the park. Photo courtesy Andrea. Our recent "3 Questions" subjects have included Megan Marrone, Kevin Rose, Phil Bronstein, and the founders of Yelp -- all pretty darned high-profile people. However, as compelling as we find those folks, our goal with the short-form interview was always to intersperse folks on the street; the folks you meet in your real life, who really are as interesting as, well, anybody. Andrea F.......
Continue Reading "3 Questions For A San Franciscan"May 25, 2007
SFist Sara's back, with your weekend picks in indie cinema! We are always going to tell you to see Other Cinema. You can set your watch to it, we promise. This week’s Incredibly Strange Music program is packed with punk rock/bad music video genius. We’re particularly into the experimental film Foucault’s Pendulum but there’s oddity for every taste, as curator Craig Baldwin’s program religiously offers. This week, however, the OC schedule has a staunch competitor......
Continue Reading "Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Virtues"May 20, 2007
On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story of Brubaker's made headlines nationwide (and Colbert, of course): the death of Marvel Comics' icon Captain America. ...
Continue Reading "Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, Captain America) "April 30, 2007
SFist Wendy covers both South and North Africa with the SFIFF! Who needs Coachella when there’s Oppikoppi, a rock music festival held in South Africa every year? Really, we would have loved to have been at Coachella this weekend, but if you couldn’t be there, the SF International Film Festival was a great place to be instead. Last night, at Bunny Chow, John Barker’s debut feature film, we roadtripped to Oppikoppi along with a......
Continue Reading "Roadtripping At The SFIFF This Weekend"April 26, 2007
Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several tasty morsels. If you missed part one and want to read about some folks making with the funny, please feel free. In this post, we're focusing on some creators that combine a less obvious type of humor with some great art and a generally longer form of storytelling....
Continue Reading "APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty"April 13, 2007
>Theatrical Releases April 13th, 2007 Of the major releases, we think the most interesting is Mike White’s directorial debut: Year of the Dog. White continues with his tradition of dealing with sexual/social awkwardness (a la Chuck and Buck), humor about the bizarreness of development (Freaks and Geeks, School of Rock) and the conflict of “where we come from” (Orange County and Nacho Libre). It’s well put together and worth the time. This film proves itself to be one in a long career: White will certainly direct again. ...
Continue Reading "Let's All Go to the Movies"March 14, 2007
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead. As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said: "Jesus, get over yourselves...you're not even the poor man's TomKat!" ...
Continue Reading "Dear Gaviffer,"March 9, 2007
SFist reviews Indestructible at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, the autobiographical account of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) sufferer...
Continue Reading "Review: Indestructible at Cinequest"March 6, 2007
An anonymous, well-placed source forwarded a memo along to us -- it's about a month old now, but its humor is of a special timeless breed: that of the toilet. "It has come to our attention that the restroom hygiene of some tenants is less than stellar," begins the memo, with the subject "RESTROOM MANNERS." Apparently, some folks at the MTA offices at 1 South Van Ness have been wadding up some heavy paper......
Continue Reading "Muni's Equipment Troubles Extend Even Further Than We Thought"February 15, 2007
While there's nothing big going on with the story, there is some more details coming out. Actually, there's a theme to all of this and that theme is frustration. The lawyers are frustrated that the three Marines are overseas and can't be questioned by the cops, Dan Noyes is frustrated that Kamala Harris won't answer any questions, the families of the singing group are frustrated no arrests have been made, and Ken Garcia is just plain frustrated....
Continue Reading "And Now For Something Completely Different...GleeGate!"February 13, 2007
This thing is going around the internet pretty fast these days, so lest we be seen as not with it internet-wise, here it is. It's from College Humor and it's recently found footage of the real intent on the whole Aqua Teen Hunger Force scare from days back.......
Continue Reading "Your Funny Video of the Day"February 10, 2007
Please, for the love all that is holy, make Armando Benitez go away....
Continue Reading "It's Got to Be the Morning After"February 9, 2007
Come late January, most national publications are usually too overwhelmed (and understaffed) to even consider covering any film fest outside of Sundance. Even SF publications are hard pressed to see past the flurry of Park City and look over their shoulders into The Mission. It’s a shame, because if they looked, they’d find a really meaty, crafty, saucy festival offering a smattering of hard to find films and some films even harder to miss. ...
Continue Reading "History, Oh Damaged History: IndieFest '07 Showcases Films Inspired by the "Greats" "