Citing anti-freedom of religion sentiment, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill over the weekend blocking any and all circumcision bans in the state of California. Assembly bill 768, penned in response to San Francisco's controversial (and, admittedly, somewhat misguided) failed circumcision ban, will bar citizens from impinging upon Jewish and Muslim rituals involving foreskin snipping -- religious acts that some have decried as male genitalia mutilation. more ›

Tagged under "Pretty sure this is the first time I've seen someone who wasn't homeless expose himself on 22nd" on Uptown Almanac is this marvelous NSFW photo of a drunk man whipping out his dick in some misguided effort to intimidate the cops in their riot gear. This all went down at Mission and 22nd last night, and we're pretty sure this is the first time we've seen a man expose himself in celebration of a Giants victory. more ›

Candid shot from yesterday's St. Stupid's Day Parade. more ›

Yeah, yeah. We stuck this in Day Around the Bay, but we feel it merits its own post. (Besides, we'd hate for some local bloggers to go one day without bashing us in private for being "too gay now." We digress.) more ›

Oh my. Seeing as how SFist errs on this side daintiness, we simply cannot bring ourselves to discuss this image in detail. Click here to find out for yourself just whose bulbous junk now graces the Dogpatch neighborhood. more ›

Nothing says "welcome to our neighborhood in which you will never be able to afford a house" quite like graffiti of a veined penis stating, "Tupac Lives."
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Chortle. more ›

All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance in the "Celebrities Who Teach" series). The critically-acclaimed event will be in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow night at the Roxie Red Vic at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and this Sunday at the Parkway in Oakland for a 5 p.m. matinee. Every screening features Nick and Joe's live, in-person commentary. If you can't make it to the live show, you have the option to buy the Found Footage Festival Vol. 2 DVD, which features Nick and Joe's commentary and the live audience laugh track from a screening at The Heights Theater in Minnesota. Note: This event has very adult content. There is a clip at the end that will shock, titillate, and stun -- shall we say, "flopping, full frontal?" more ›

-- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] more ›

If the prospect of watching a gay pride parade on television thrills you, you'd better have cable -- because KRON, which has previously broadcast the parade over the air on channel 4, is this year bumping their coverage all the way up to Comcast's channel 99. KRON's broadcast license is up for renewal, see, and the chance of losing it over something unexpected during the parade is just too great. (You can read a highlarious lover's spat about it on our "contribute" page -- hey, folks, you know you can argue much more effectively in the SFist forums, right?) more ›

Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of -Ist-a-verse more ›

Feeling the prevailing motif of the All Hallows Eve, SFist Nico implores you all to turn the lights down for God's sake! more ›

Our mistake was thinking any movie shown during the Hole in the Head Horror Festival would be at least a little scary. Watching a monster that looks like a slightly more sinister version of the Cal mascot, Oskie the Bear pawing a naked lady is kinda horrific but scary? Not so much. more ›

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. more ›

At some point in the early 80s, cartoonist Chester Brown got it into his head that Japanese manga had a very casual attitude about feces. Not to be outdone by this probably-not-at-all-true tidbit, he produced "Ed the Happy Clown," an utterly disgusting story about a man with such powers of productivity that he was able to escape a prison cell by filling it until it burst. Collected and published by the affected Drawn and Quarterly, Ed's life seems to turn into a gross-out contest. Just when you think it can't get any worse (for example, waking up to discover the head of his penis replaced by the head of Ronald Reagan) it becomes far, far more horrifying (the Reagan-penis is smothered in the folds of a female rapist). more ›

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Patrick Rodriguez makes an argument for saving Stan "Tookie" Williams -- those Berkeley Republicans are always throwing curveballs. Sasha over at Left in SF wonders if the Residential Builders Association and the Bay Guardian can ever get along. Kimo Crossman at Webnetic points out why you should care about the SF citywide wifi process, and suggests you drop by the Board of Supervisors to argue for more public involvement. And MuniWireless posts the MetroFi contract for the recent hotspots downtown. more ›

Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn points out that constituents probably don't want their TV's f**ked with by their elected representative. more ›

SFist made it to the W. Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show last Thursday and have to admit that we were a little put off about the false advertising. While we did see cut hair, we did not see an actual hair cut. Instead, that took place off stage during the last hour of the show. Sheesh. more ›

If you're like us, you like nothing better than cruising down the 101 in your tricked out Hummer while watching a little Bonfire of the Panties or Assablanca. Thanks to the good ole California State Legislature, we can keep on doing it. This week, the legislature defeated a bill by Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Palm Desert) that would have made it illegal to be watching some porn from the comfort of your car. The problem with watching porn in your car? Do we even need to say? Yep, just imagine you and the kiddies are coming back from their soccer match and pass one of those big cars that have TV screens in the back seat. The kids look over at what's being watched and well, the next thing you know, you're telling the kids about how sometimes when mommy, daddy, the neighbor, and the pizza deliveryman love each other, sometimes they do things to each other to show them how much they love each other. more ›

BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about everyone's favorite cut of man-meat. more ›

Remember the nineties? Back when nobody knew Scott Weiland was a big junkie, but wondered why every single that Stone Temple Pilots came out with sounded like a song recorded by Nirvana or Pearl Jam? When the Internet was going to change the world for, the, uh, better? When Microsoft Windows was actually a useful operating system, and our major worry was whether or not Bill Clinton could keep his penis out of the mouths of interns? more ›

Family Guy and is ecstatic that Fox has brought it back for the umpteenth time. While watching last week's rerun, we got a chuckle out of the fact that Stewie’s (the diabolically scheming baby) bare behind was shown with a bit of a blur. Oh, that whacky Seth MacFarlane, tweaking the FCC like that. Funny little thing about the blurred bottom, though- it wasn’t meant to be a joke. Instead, a gun-shy Fox decided to blur the baby’s bum so as to avoid any possible post-Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” FCC fine. more ›

roundup of the Bay Area weeklies. more ›

The forests of Northern California are some of the most beautiful in the world. SFist has been simultaneously awed and humbled by trips up north to visit our millenia-old friends the redwoods. So who in their right mind would ever want to cut these things down? SFist thinks it's people with really severe penis envy. more ›