Forget the Oscar nominations and the Super Bowl, what really matters in January is The Onion's A.V. Club choices for Worst Band Names. They have special categories for emo bands, death metal bands, bands with the word "f*ck" in them, bands with the word "funk" in them, and bands with gratuitous usage of exclamation points. Personally, we're of the opinion that there are two types of bad band names: annoying or boring bad and so-bad-they're-good......

Well, is our face red! We screwed ourselves out of a couple of free 40 buck lunches! For the second year in a row, we talked smack about our nomination for a Pubby Award, the SF Bay Area Publicity Club's Media Excellence Awards. However this year's awards banquet had a surprise twist (at least, it was a surprise to us): according to a source within the SFBAPC Sorry you couldn't make the Pubbies Award program......

To the delight of headline writers throught the internets, two great SF Bay Area products now go great together, thanks to Levi's long-awaited announcement of the RedWire DLX Jeans. As if the iPod dock in a convenient side pocket weren't enough, Levi's actually added a double-entendre-friendly joystick in the watch pocket. That's attention to detail. Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are......

Howdy, fellow 'Fisters and fans of the SF Bay Area -- it's another episode of SFist Answers, where we strive to provide helpful answers, or at least decent-sounding BS, to those burning, itching questions. Want us to take a crack at your question? Just shoot a note off to SFistAnswers[at]sbcglobal.net. Scriblegurl writes: Why do many people get bored so quickly? For example, I'm really bored right now. Scriblegurl, there's a fine line between "comfort"......

Imagine how excited we were to hear this morning through the PR Newswire that your humble little -ist website had been nominated for a prestigious "Pubby" Award! A "Pubby"! For best Bay Area blog! The competition was stiff (SiliconValleyWatcher.org, DaveyD.com, splendora.com, and travelblog.org) -- but we were hopeful that we'd be invited to the 9th Annual SF Bay Area Publicity Club Pubby Awards lunch ceremony to pick up our prize! So we were all excitedly planning on what we were going to wear to the lunch ceremony at the Argent Hotel, practicing batting our eyelashes for lunch MC Liam Mayclem from channel 5 -- when SFist Eve (always the most eagle-eyed among us) noticed -- hey, this lunch is scheduled for today! Guess we didn't win, huh? Well, fine! We didn't want to win anyways! We've never even heard of the Bay Area Publicity Club! What's a "Pubby," anyways? No, it's okay, we're fine -- but, well, shoot, Bay Area Publicity Club -- you guys could have at least told us we were nominated a little bit earlier, so we'd at least have had our concession speech to, say, DaveyD.com all prepared and ready to go. (note: we actually have no idea who won, since we get no actual communication from the BAPC). A little harsh to issue a press release to us that basically says we've already lost, too! ...

The San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons have Wednesday off, and the And1 Mixtape tour has come and gone. San Francisco basketball fans, though, have long needed to seek a June hoops fix someplace besides the NBA, and this week our ship comes in: the SF Bay Area ProCity Summer Basketball League tips off its 26th season at 8 p.m. tonight in Kezar Pavilion at Stanyan and Waller. They'll play most nights between now......

Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation, by Ken Bielenberg, visual effects supervisor of PDI/Dreamworks, will discuss the technical advancements and innovations developed in making Shrek 2. Plus, it's free. [Ed. Note: How come LA gets the star-studded parties and we get events reminiscent of the technical Oscar awards......