-- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc] -- PC World editor's suspected killers could receive death sentences. [Chron] -- Marines banned from filming commercial in SF. [FOX] -- Another attempt to ban the Blue Angels proves unsuccessful. Sorry, Chris. [CBS5] -- Speaking of Board of Supes, someone done got suspended/replaced. [ABC7] -- Death of an lILWU longshoreman results in Oakland port's closure for the day. [Oakland Tribune] -- Chloe Veltman......

Remember that totally awesome scene in Return of the King 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? Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d"......

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....

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. WonderCon has come! That's......

In case there was any doubt, we're all a bunch of dorkus malorkusses over here, which is why we're so giddy about the upcoming WonderCon 2005 at the Moscone in February. (Hipsters too cool to care about anything that isn't ironic ought maybe to skip to the end of this blurb, which is a good bit and has Marvin in it.) It's like our very own NorCal Comic-Con! Now's the time to register to attend......

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