Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. SFist reader The Default Attorney sent us this item, which s/he found taped to an N-Judah stop at Arguello and Irving at the end of June. The note sounds like your typical missed connection, but it was taken a step......

Platinum Studios, a comic book publisher (KISS 4k (yes, about the band) and Hero by Night) is hosting a sort of "American Idol" for comic creators. A few of those contestants are from right here in the Bay Area. Kevin Buckley is the writer on this project and an artist in his own right, though Marcus Thiele, his partner, is the artist on their pitch: "The Strange and Many Eyes of Dr. LeFaux." Kevin and Marcus took a few minutes to talk about their art and living in the Bay Area. ...

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! Chris Daly to a prospective voter: "I'm the lone gunman on the grassy knoll." - From Rita/At 16th and Mission Tourist lady, attempting to board......

The District 6 supervisor race just keeps heating up! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Diet Coke. Incumbent Chris Daly was just endorsed by the San Francisco firefighters' union. We can't wait for the picture of Chris wearing a firefighter's hat and carrying a ladder! BUT -- when the head of the Police Officers' Association, Gary Delagnes, heard the news, he hit the roof. He promptly fired off a note to the firefighters' union, reminding them......

Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Old man outside bar: "Smoking kills." Smoking hipster: "Only the good die young." -- From Ingrid/Bar in TenderNob Teen girl: "I don't know why California has so many bushes. They're so ugly. I hate them. I just want to burn them all up." Teen guy: "Yeah, they look like pimples on my butt." -- From Alex/On Caltrain, going past the bushy hills of South San Francisco SUV-Driving......

A weekly tribute to the only haze thicker than the Marina's, the one you wake up with in your head on Saturday morning. By your local barrespondent, Drew. There must be a mathematical formula to answer the eternal question, "How empty is too empty for a bar?". We're no algebrists, but square footage and amount of light have to be in that formula somewhere we would think. After all, a dark, small empty bar is......