Traffic was terrible on our way to the Asian-Am Film Fest due to the St. Patrick's Day parade -- either Chris Daly's running for District 6 again or they're giving out green beads for celebrants. We were on our way to see The Cats of Mirkitani, or, as we've been calling it all week, "Ross Mirkarimi's cats." (N.B.: Ross Mirkarimi is not Japanese.) What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo......

LitPAC's Progressive Reading Series is a monthly literary benefit to support progressive congressional candidates nationwide. Every second Monday of the month though the 2006 mid-terms, hit the Makeout Room (3225 22nd Street) at 7 p.m., to hear local and visiting authors read from past and recent works. Tonight's event (their ninth) marks the "5th Anniversary of September 11 with a special reading by authors writing about the tragedy and its aftermath." Readers include Joyce Maynard,......

Send your submissions to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Hoodie Girl: I think only residents of the dorms are allowed to bring in guns. -- Outside an Academy of Art building Lady on cellphone: I don't care to exercise with people who I see socially. -- Yvesdropped on by Bill, at Draeger's Market in Menlo Park Hipster: There's nothing more pathetic than a naked man falling down. -- Orbit Room......

Your SF weekend assaults roundup: A shooting at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Mission and 18th, followed 45 minutes later by a stabbing at Mission and 17th; a shooting in Visitacion Valley Saturday night/Sunday morning; a shooting at Broadway and Columbus outside Vietnam Restaurant; and a shooting outside 330 Ritch. Hey, if you hate alternative music of the late 80s that much, just say so! Good Samaritans at the North Berkeley BART stop -- people waiting on the platform Sunday interceded to stop an attempted robbery of a woman waiting for a Richmond-bound train. Four people were injured (one seriously), but they caught the would-be robber. The BART stop was then closed for three hours as the police came by for interviews, a weapons search, and to clean up the station. BART says maybe September 11 is not the best day to try anything funny on a transit system. And yesterday, an Alameda County jury returned two second-degree murder convictions in the Gwen Araujo case, and hung again on the third defendant. The jury rejected first-degree or the hate crime enhancements to the penalties. ...