Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them as sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. Here is another cat sidewalk drawing, presumably from the same artist who chalked Sr. Kitty Hitler. We're not sure what's up with the scarf on George Cat's head. Could it represent the chains that bind him to his cronies,......

SFist Christopher Rogers sends in this picture he got outside the bar Shanghai Kelly's (in District 3) last Thursday. No other news to report, it's just a fun picture.......

Submit your Bay Area finds to found at sfist dot com or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other interesting info. SFist Christopher passed along this precious child's chalk drawing of a cat, who is none other than Hitler. On a sidewalk in Emeryville, the cautionary tale of Sr Kitty Hitler is told: "Sr. Kitty Hitler He was one of the evilest......

Downtown is looking a little shut down today as those wacky Trotskyites broadly-arrayed leftists at A.N.S.W.E.R. are giving their answer to the Bush Surge (hey, that sounds like a video you can find at Good Vibrations) by protesting. All this is going down at Powell & Market where alarmed tourists are sure to thrill at some good old fashioned San Francisco Values. SFist Christopher is caught in the middle of it and sends photos......

Look who's launched his "reelect me in 2007" website! (Thanks, Usual Suspects!) Mysteriously, Gavin and his handlers didn't choose the domain name gavinnewsom2007.com, but went with actlocallysf.com instead. ActLocallySF.org is quite a multimedia extravaganza, with a Flickr page set up, a blog with entries about how Gavin loves the Niners (he's a sports blogger, just like SFist Christopher Rogers!), online polls, a blogroll (which is not up yet -- we hope we're included!), and......

Last night SFist actually braved leaving their apartment and went out to Capcom's Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions Launch Party. Because whenever somebody offers us free drinks, we're there. Plus, launch parties are pretty fun in that you can play video games without feeling like an anti-social loser. So what does a launch party look like? And how good is the game? Well, after the jump, we got more photos and SFist Christopher has a brief review of the game....

Yes indeed, it's Week Eight of the National Football League's 2006 regular season here in the Bay Area. Almost Halloween. There will be as few Halloween-related puns as is possible. It's not like we're SI's Peter King or something. Don't forget to wake up as early as you care to on November 1 to go grab cheap candy at the store! Here at American Football Spectacular we are big fans of cheap candy, kittens, the......

Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game. On the other hand, they screwed up this weekend's Bush Bowl in winning. Now that they are no longer tied with the Texans for the worst record in the league, their chances of getting the man so hyped a bootleg video of......

Welcome back, or welcome to your holiday American Football Spectacular, depending on whichever sets of traditions you choose to salute. Everyday is a holiday if you feel like it. This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for the holidays. Mmmm... home cookin'. Here's the problem: your San Francisco 49ers won! Really! 24 - 20, sweeping those dastardly St. Louis Rams for 2005. Sure, they were somewhat depleted in Saturday's Christmas Eve matchup, but so what. We win. Hah! ...

Your Cal Bears are off to Vegas to play BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl. Fun, right? Enjoyment and excitement in America's gleeful den of inequity, right? Stuff that'd make shorthaired guys in visors and Abercrombie shirts go "WOOOOOOO!" with arms upraised, right? Well, yeah, in part. As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in......

Pain. Both of our Bay Area NFL teams fell last Sunday, beneath the weight of a precious few key plays falling to the opposing teams' favor. For our San Francisco 49ers, the game against the New York (American football) Giants was reasonably within reach, but for a few big plays. Had these panned out differently, things might have been closer: The Lloyd catch (covered below); the Shockey 4th down "forget - it - I'm......

We had to go to the Television Without Pity recaps of The Bachelor to figure out which one new Niner Jesse Palmer was. Oh, yeah, that guy. We thought he was kinda hot in a very International Male way until he started talking, and then we didn't any more. And not that we think every romance needs to have a wedding, but to end up offering the winner a plane ticket to New York?......

Horrid. There are nearly no positives that can be taken from the 17 - 52 whuppin’ that Washington's football club put on our San Francisco 49ers in Week 07. Washington's squad simply cut through the SF personnel at will in all planes of play. And then did cartwheels. Ugh. It hurt to watch. Though it was noted previously that this was likely to be a non-winnable game, the whole point of a season such......

"Count it a blessing that you're such a failure, your second chance might never have come." -- from the song "Winners Never Quit" by Pedro The Lion Friends, as we've said before, these are indeed dark time for American Football in the Bay Area. As both of our professional football clubs' fortunes plummet, ever closer we are to the dreaded Double Blackout. Down into pro football's depths fall we -- much like Bill and......

When looking at the 2005 schedule of your San Francisco 49ers' season, the Week 05 matchup against the Indianapolis Colts didn't bode well. The Colts've had one of the most overwhelming offenses in league for a while now, with two problems keeping the team from earning the Lombardi Trophy: a poor defense, and a history of executing their offense with less precision when playing outside in the elements. Tony Dungy, a defensively-skilled coach, took......

It was painful to watch. We knew this was an outsized match when we saw in ahead on the calendar. SF vs PHI. Crap. We knew. This is part of what being at the bottom reaps; sometimes you must face those stronger than you on your path when you are not ready for them. This is indisputable. And it hurt. Oh, did it hurt. The points kept coming, and your 49ers simply could not......

You sitting down? OK. Listen, we've gotta talk. Such is your Oakland Raiders' schedule in the forthcoming three weeks before their bye week, that when October 9 comes, OAK could be 0 - 4. Don't think that we like saying this. Oh hell to-the-no! This ain't fun at all! It's a rough thing to think about, but it needs to be talked over. It's the road that's before us, and we've got to deal......

http://images2.nfl.com/u/ap/photos/MAME116090823_lower.jpg"> It was time. Your Oakland Raiders meant to contend with the two-time defending NFL Champion New England Patriots in the marquee 2005 NFL Kickoff game. No, let us begin again, the Raiders did not go Eastward just to contend. There was talk within the Nation of cold revenge, of making a statement, of something that had occurred here just a few seasons past that can not be spoken about directly. Fresh arrows there......

Welcome again to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. After yesterday's 49ers preview, we turn our eyes Eastward, towards the trill of The Autumn Wind lilting towards us on the September breeze. Drums. I hear battle drums on the wind. Hello my name is: Your Oakland Raiders. Grinning with all his teeth from atop one of the greatest cults of personality ever constructed, Raiders'......

Welcome to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. From here on out, we will be covering anything for you involving oblong balls that roll funny. So! It is time for National Football League action. The pre-season is through, and finally we're gonna play some games that count! Ahh, sweet diversionary gridiron joy. We begin our musical journey at Candlestick Park, where o so many......