What, you're too good for a cat posting? Well, we aren't. Clearly. What with this week's solider/puppy/cliff incident that we are too weak to talk about much less link to, we feel it is our sovereign duty to highlight the sheer awesomeness of owning and loving a pet. For your consideration, we present to you Hugo. Hugo, you see, needs over a thousand baby spankings and belly rubs if you ask us. His disdain......

Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the chemicals through placenta, and then through milk to those adorable little seal pups we all love so much. Harbor seals near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge are now being studied to determine the effects of such exposure. Researchers hope that this new......

SFist Jacob steps up to the blog pulse plate, while SFist Jackson's on hiatus. All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all this cold just means the onset of summer. Still, if you're jonesing for some tropical island loveliness, head over to the Humu Kon Tiki's San Francisco section to......

All the culture jammers said hey (haaaa-yeeee) on Friday night at the Women's Building, for the first SF DocFest screening of Pop-aganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English by Pedro Carvala, and the film short Fridge by Brian Perkins and friend of SFist Jason Blalock. Pop-aganda is a profile of the artist Ron English, who's made a specialty of 1) guerrilla billboards and 2) paintings about the commodification of pop culture, and Fridge is about magnetic poetry in San Francisco. Like the films' introducer said, "these films are -- well, I don't want to say pranky....", to a resounding "whoo!!!" in the crowd. What happens when you take a refrigerator into the streets of San Francisco, and ladies with Mickey Mouse boobies, after the jump. Pop-Aganda and Fridge play again on May 21 at 10 p.m. Art by Ron English...