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No, not this. Nor this. And certainly not this.

                     

On Sunday, the annual How Weird Street Fair took place on Howard Street (get it?), with many residents showing up for the organized fun festivities wearing very bright colors. Described as a way to "rewire our way of thinking towards peace, by rebooting the motherboard," the zany fair was filled with Burners, furries, transgressive types, self-described weirdos, and other people who had bad experiences with "organized religion" and/or mean parents who believed in some sort of structure.

      

After speaking in Berkeley on Saturday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Martin's Soup Kitchen, which primarily serves food to the homeless. Protected by heavy security and traveling in a long armored motorcade, the Dalai Lama served pasta and spoke to some of the less fortunate locals.

                     

The Sisters of Perpetual (over 200 of them!) are all over town this weekend. Thank God. On Friday, the nuns had a 30th birthday party at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

                     

Here are some images of people acting stupid. ("Stupid," it seems, equals "wearing loud colors.") Check back here for updated images of today's alleged inanity at today's St. Stupid's Day Parade.

Did you know the Bay Area is under siege right now? It's true. The invader? Thousands and thousands of pudy butterflies. Why, just today we received an urgent message from SFist Deborah N about hundreds of colorful, frolicking butterflies swarming up Lapu Lapu. We've also heard reports of butterfly sightings from the Sunnyside neighborhood to Crissy Field.

               

As of 11:30 a.m., bagpipes play as the caskets carrying the bodies of Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Sgt, Ervin Romans, Sgt. Daniel Sakai, and Officer John Heg enter Oracle Arena. Gavin Newsom, Barbara Boxer, and Jerry Brown are in attendance, as are thousands of Oakland officers.

A refreshingly original new photo site has developed on the interwebs, and it's actually a good one. Created by Peter Bruce, 1 Photo. 3 Words. 365 Days's mission statement is clean and simple. Bruce finds a person on the street that he doesn't know, snaps their photo, and asks them for three words that describe how they are feeling at that moment.

    

Flickr photog Erik Gibb managed to snap these super pics of Sunday's Portreo Hill porta-potty immolation, which brought the number of blazes to 23 since November. If we're not mistaken, these are the first images of the Toilet Torcher's criminal activity in progress. Fortunately, the rain prevented the fire from igniting the trees along the sidewalk. this could have been much worse.

A lot of you have sent SFist photos of this "Adios Douche Bag(s)" poster with former President George W. Bush. A lot. And we relent. So here's the most interesting one we've received thus far. It features colorful town crier Frank Chu. (Chu, we should point out, will not be adding Barack to his lawsuit from outer space.)

       

Today's rally to keep the MTA from removing a bike lane on San Francisco's main strip went well this morning. Leno, Ammiano, Dufty, Mirkarimi, Campos -- the usual suspects were in attendance. Loads of cyclists too.

           

Scenes from last night's BART shooting protest turned riot in Downtown Oakland.

         

Flora Grubb Gardens, a wonderfully green (the old use of word) place to get a gift, will be open until 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night for those of you interested in giving the gift of beauty, oxygen production. Check them out over at 1634 Jerrold Avenue, right off of 280 in San Francisco.

Who's the bitch now, scare-away owl?

Really, how can you hate them after seeing this? They're gorgeous in "Pigeons on a Mission," above, shot by Flickr photog captin_nod.

      

Trey Blog came across the scene of a failed suicide attempt, which happened a few weeks ago. The images are sad yet fascinating. Someone, it seems, jumped from the top of a Fell Street apartment building in a suicide attempt and smashed into a car windshield. A small note was left behind detailing the events. We hope the victim is alive and well.

ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa

This one's from inside the venerable Eezy Freezy Market along West Portal.

They also have a somehow inexhaustible supply of nice folks behind the counter wearing hoodies, along with stacks of British tabloids.

                                       

Photog extraordinaire Darwin Bell (for The Sword) managed to make it to yesterday's sex-and-fetish gala, the annual Folsom Street Fair. Lucky You. But let's skip the innuendos, explanation, and body-odor hate, and just get to the good stuff: fellatio, fisty sex acts, Sarah Palin drag, mommy parts, butts, boobs, bits, beer, same-sex sex, porta-potties, leather, and family fun. (Need some more Folsom Street Fair imagery burned into your brain?

      

A reader sends us info (and several images) on a shooting that occurred early this morning in front of an apartment on Hyde between O"Farrell and Geary streets. Here's all we know so far.

                                     

This weekend's Anti-Scientology protest, held by the brave kids at Anonymous, encountered some equally scary enemies: zombies. Check out some scene's of the protest in action, actual Scientologists, fake blood, amusing signage, and meeting and eating of the minds. Looks like the best protest yet!

     

All images credited to Flickr user anmoyunos. To check out more Anon protest pics, go here.

                           

Yesterday's Up Your Alley Fair is what the Folsom Street Fair used to be before all the tourists pushing baby strollers started showing up. More than 8,000 leather daddies -- and as many as perhaps a dozen biological women -- braved the cold fog wearing little more than a gimp mask and a smile to benefit PAWS, the AIDS Emergency Fund, and others. We tried to limit the amount of naked penis visible in these shots, but in that kind of environment there's only so much a photographer can do. The fully-lubed, unexpurgated photoset can be can be found at DJTennessee's flickr page, as well as a few over at Nature abhors a vacuum.

       

While not nearly as exciting as Anonymous' cheeky Scientology protests, this little BofA rally managed to voice its distress with the banking company's lack of environmental consciousness. It seems BofA is, like, using coal to run their ATM machines. Or something like that. Who knows. But you can go here and here to find out more about yesterday's skirmish in front of a downtown SF Bank of America.

          

Oh wow. You've got to check out some of these photos from the Crucible's 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival, which sparked up in fine fiery glory earlier this month. These shots were snapped up by getinet (Flickr). And the ones involving Bay Area Rapid Transit train are priceless. While the adult in us worries about the Bart train and its riders catching fire, the kid in us wants to see the thing catch fire and blow to bits. (Of course, no one was injured, hurt, singed, etc.)

                       

(By Joe Kukura)

                                

Our delightfully insane friends over at Anonymous held a semi-regular protest this weekend, aimed at the frighteningly insane Church of Scientology. But we have to admit: we're sometimes confused as to the message running throughout their rallies. Take, for example, this past weekend's protest, which was heavy on themes of rape, masks, thin girls wearing multiple prints, bubbles, dancing, sheep sodomy, bare chests, screwing, and anal sex. We don't know what you're saying, but we sure do like the way you say it, Anon.

Mark Leno and Carole Migden, please step forward.

                          

Here they are: images fro this past weekend's Bay To Breakers--the race the SFPD doesn't want you to know about!

Math, it seems, is the latest thing in graffiti.

Cute, yes? The San Francisco Zoo just released images of the newborn Sumatran tiger cub triplets born this past week to Leanne and George. Here are a few shots of the new kittens waiting for their first health exam.