When we were little we used to catch fireflies at night as it got dark. We'd put them into old mayonnaise jars with grass on the bottom and holes poked in the lid and watch them light up. Then, when it got dark enough we'd play tag with the other kids with flashlights in our yard. We'd forgotten about most of that until we had to prepare a birthday gift for our brother, and spent the greater portion of our weekend wandering through photos and gasping at who we were, and how that differed from who we thought we were, and how we weren't the person we wanted to be--and feeling bittersweet about that, good and bad. We made a slide show, burnt it to DVD, sent it off to our brother--and dumped all the photos willy-nilly back into a box and then buried the box deep in our closet. Sometimes you can have too many thoughts. Sometimes you just wanna burn them all away, go through the forge, and turn into something else, something new, something beautiful. more ›

SFist works so hard for you, San Francisco, that when we're not blogging here, we're off blogging somewhere else (and sometimes even getting work done at our day jobs). And sometimes we get ideas from each other. For instance, we found what may be our new favorite website over at SFist Cedric's Le Blog de San Francisco. more ›

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As we joked to Chicagoist, "Google's offices are pretty much heaven on earth. It's like the clock stopped for them in February of 2000." How do we know? Well, when we let our publisher know that we've been invited to review the new Brondell Swash (yes, it's being arranged -- anything to get that free Silicon Valley 100 swag), he tipped us to the fact that rumors abounded to the hi-tech nature of the company's commodes. more ›

Way back in February of 2003, just before we packed our bags and crossed the Bay Bridge to settle in The City, we remember reading a scathing letter about Meredith in the Weekly. Since nearly ten months later she was still phoning in her navel-gazing reviews (and people thought bloggers were self-obsessed), Citizen Cedichou started a blog and kept his campaign going. When we started our Digest we had no idea that we had a comrade-in-blogs, but thanks to the magic of trackbacks we were quickly alerted. more ›

Weekly review of the foodie scene. more ›