New Jersey-based blogger "Serge the Concierge" has the goods on a pretty cool local party venue -- a junkyard!...

We're throwing ourselves a second birthday party and we want all of you to come. After all, if it weren't for y'all readers, where would we be? Nowhere, that's where. So, we're taking over Varnish Fine Art (77 Natoma at 2nd) from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, August 18. There'll be SFist bingo (the perfect icebreaker for the more socially awkward!), music provided by SFist's favorite DJ, DJ Ted of BAGel Radio, and a very special......

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......

West Coast reprazent! They're taking nominations for the 2005 Photobloggie awards -- click through and make sure our Bay Area photographers and their gorgeous art get some love! (Full disclosure: Our cuddly publisher Jake Dobkin is helping organize the Bloggies and the mothership Gothamist is sponsoring the Best US Photoblog award -- win a shuffle!). Categories include: best national and international blogs, best writing on a photoblog, best animal photographs, best b/w, best design, best youth, and many, many others -- check 'em out, compare them with the photobloggers we have in our blogroll, give us suggestions in the comments for other Bay Area photobloggers we can check out, and hey, let us know if you get nominated so we can stuff the ballot box in your favor! Bay A---rrreeeee-aaaah!! ...

Aeolian Ride comes to SF!...