(By Christopher Robbins) In the midst of the most important story of our time, Alec Baldwin's spokesman wants us to know that getting the boot from an American Airlines flight was just Alec being Alec. "Alec loves Words With Friends so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it," flack Matthew Hilzik tells the Daily News. And fellow famous-person Oscar De La Hoya, who was on the flight from LAX to JFK, tweeted "I think the flight attendant over reacted…@AlecBaldwin was doing nothing wrong but playing 'words' on his phone." But couldn't this just be some celebrity Omertá? According to American Airlines, Baldwin was acting like a thoughtless little pig. more ›

Noted filmmaker and airline obesity-rules crusader Kevin Smith, when he gives a lecture, says "'n shit" or the alternate "n shit like that" the way you or I say "um" ... in other words, a lot. Please see this clip reel, compiled from Kevin's two-hour lecture Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40. [VH1 via WOW] more ›

After delivering a potty-mouthed tirade/iPad speech to geeks at the Macworld Expo today, filmmaker Kevin Smith (Cop Out, Clerks, Chasing Amy) sent out these delightfully irate Twitter messages regarding his getting thrown off a Southwest Air flight. It seems, while he was returning home on this evening, Smith was tossed off the plane for being fat; a flight attendant told him he was a "safety risk." more ›

-- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc] more ›

Remember that totally awesome scene in where the Witch King was leaving Cirith Ungol with the Orc army and Frodo started freaking out and then that big shaft of light shot out of the building as the people of Minas Tirith looked on with a dread that something great and terrible was coming? more ›

It’s been awhile since SFist has listened to morning radio but when we did, we found ourselves ever drawn to Howard Stern. Yeah, we know. But when you’re stuck at some soul-sucking temp job, nothing helps fill the existential void like a little lesbian-dial-a-date. If we did listen to radio in the morning, however, tomorrow we’d be totally listening to Alice Radio. Filling in for Sarah’s erstwhile partner No Name for the past several days is the one, the only, Kevin Smith. Yep, Silent Bob himself has been getting up in the morning and chewing the fat with Sarah and the rest of them. more ›

Something's coming to San Francisco this weekend, something so big, and so exciting, that we couldn't contain our enthusiasm and had to write about it over a month ago. But now the waiting is over, and we can dust off our Princess Leia buns and our Spock ears (which can stand in for elvin ears in a pinch) and join the huddled masses that are just as dorky as us. more ›

Okay, okay, we'll calm down. Just give us a moment. more ›

This scenario playing out in Hayward is so Kevin Smith, you'd think we lived in New Jersey. more ›