We know you're thankful for stuff (like, say, all of the fine content found right here on SFist -- or for baby Jesus' blessed kisses, the gift of life, blah, blah). But what, pray tell, about about some of your favorite SFisters? For what are they getting down on their and giving thanks this year? We asked for a signifying photo from each with some Answering our call. In no particular order, here's what we have so far:

Evan Roberts
"I'm thankful for the Sears Portrait Studio in Oakland."

Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our furious, fabulous five for last week -- the first week with a new guy in the top spot! -- follows:

1) The history behind this red, white & blue Muni bus was a mystery no more, thanks to a guest comment from "Retired Muni Operator."

2) Our very own SFist Leanne shared a conversation she overheard on the bus in reference to some recent shootings. Yeesh.

3) Thanks to an anonymous guest (REGISTER, people! We want to give you credit!) who shared with us a wild link about a SATANIST! Double yeesh!

4) cat not only commented on how silly aspects of the NYT's coverage of our mayoral race was and made sure we knew what up with Matt. G, she also took one for the team by writing a letter to the editor of the Old Gray Lady -- then provided an update on the national media's current obsession with our local politics. That's like commentary overtime. We're going to give her time and a half.

5) Finally, good comment by ievans, who, in reference to something Officer Andrew Cohen told us, points out that loyalty shouldn't be given blindly or unconditionally.

Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there was plenty of excellent conversation.

1) We enjoyed (Not SFist)Jeremy's response to Rita's review of Mission Pie for several reasons. First, he filled in some good additional details. Second, we should all talk about pie more often. Finally, as we almost missed this insight since it's a "guest-comment," it's a good opportunity to remind long-time commenters to PLEASE REGISTER. The benefits are multitudinous. Who wouldn't want to see all the comments they've made with the click of a button?

2) and 3) iris talked about the concept of "edgehogs," responding to our "Ask A Muni Driver" top 10 pet peeve list. It's something that everyone hates, but she verbalized it and shared an amusing name for the despicable practice (for which she cited the N Judah Chronicles, one of our favorite sites). Thanks, iris! On the same thread, we enjoyed bornandraised's comment, which gave the student's perspective on having to wear those horribly large packbacks, even on the bus. It ain't the kids' fault!

4) More transportation woes! SFist's Jim posted a pic and discussion about the Octavia Boulevard ramp, which led to much spirited discussion. We appreciated mariconsoy's take on the situation: a little historical perspective, a little opinion, a very good comment.

5) Rounding out the Top 5 this week, we apprecited President Camacho sharing his eyewitness account of the 4th of July incident in Dolores Park where a young drummer's hand was injured by an errant explosive. We hope he shared that with the proper authorities as well.

Whew, sorry to end on such a downer -- more talk about pie, please! See who'll end up in our Top 5 next week!

The Top 5 for last week, as selected by SFist's editors, were:

1, and 2) There were a bunch of great comments on the story titled "Surprise: Parking Garage Company Wants to Build LA-Style Garages in SF." These from murphstahoe ("Quit blaming "the rich". Start blaming "The Stupid"), and CRS (who maintained a level head and appropriate tone despite an apparently unpopular stance) were particularly well thought out and moved the dicussion forward. Like we say often at Top 5 HQ: just because we don't necessarily agree doesn't mean that we didn't enjoy your take on things.

3) It may not be surprising that another parking story, "Let's Talk About Parking Some More," spawned our next in the "Top 5." ChinaNob not only brought the strong opinion on "car sharing", but made a reading recommendation as well. It is summer, after all.

A non-parking-related winner! Number 4 last week was from MistahHM, who had an interesting point about businesses needing to take some responsibility for their garbage output. Funny that our commenters make better points of Gavin's "get rid of trash cans" plan than, well, the mayor's office. Plenty of good comments against it too.

Number 5 goes to KWillets' comment about what's going on with Supervisor Daly -- because, if nothing else, his assessment of "professional public relations people" totally nailed it.

The signal to noise ratio, frankly, went to s***.

We believe that our soon-to-be-implemented new comments system will be a big help, and most of you stayed within bounds and were a great help in policing too -- but, please, in the meantime, we'd remind you intelligent folks to continue to be responsible commenters throughout.

Even so, there were some gems this week, some high-level discussion where people brought the insight, the knowledge, or the funny -- for everyone's betterment.

1)With truly our favorite comment this week, That Chick gets all "meta" (and really funny) by commenting about commenting (and this here "Top 5"). We couldn't have said it better ourselves, That Chick.

2) The often-funny fizzandpop makes the cut this week with a rather cathartic rant in response to Lev's latest "Tale of Mere Existence." Thank you fizzandpop -- we feel better just reading that.

3) "ohnoedjewnews" chimed in with some funny news (that we subsequently got confirmed by photo evidence). "Quickly resign." Ha!

4) So, we're sure thatguywhokeepscorrectingthings will find something to nitpick us about in this very post, but in the mean time, we'd like to point out his well-reasoned comment regarding taking stuff you see on the Internet (including SFist, kids) with a grain of salt/a bit of skepticism. While this story was legit (about a potential juror who was in a jury pool with Ed Jew), the principle he brings up has merit.

5) A commenter called Alex (the other one) had some good insight and shared his knowledge on calling emergency/non-emergency police numbers via the cellie.

Please enjoy our selections -- and please make the hard part of our job picking out good comments, not moderating them.

Hi, folks -- welcome to the latest edition of the Top 5. As SFist is community driven, we enjoy picking out some of the best comments that you folks contributed -- the ones that raised the discussion level, taught us something we didn't know, or made us laugh.

1) First, we'd like to recognize "leftalone," who purports to work for the embattled Mr. Ed Jew, and wanted to tell us "two stories to get off [his/her] chest." Insider info, especially if we believe it sounds credible, goes straight to the top of the list. Thanks, leftalone.

2) DG's comment on the budget situation offered some very good insight.

3) We love it when the subjects of one of our stories comes onto SFist to comment. Thanks, Mr. Sugermonster! (a.k. mike sugerman). It also didn't hurt that he identified himself as "a regular reader and a fan of SFist." Flattery will get you everywhere.

4) We enjoyed Nad's tough-but-fair assessment of the state of the Chronicle these days, and hope that Phil Bronstein, the subject of the interview where the comment was left, will take note of his measured, constructive statements.

5) Finally, on the subject of the shootings in the Western Addition: many of you engaged in an excellent conversation regarding police and housing and funding. For the most part, it was a very well thought out, even-tempered, engaging discussion. We're going to cheat and proclaim the whole discussion a "Top Comment." Probably one of the best things we read last week, anywhere -- thank you sfmike, jerry jarvis, "J", Jeffrey W. Baker, tom, and everyone else that participated.

Come, let us gaze boldly into the amazing future together, where events such as these will affect you ... in the future.

As you may or may not know, readers of SFist are permitted to submit responses to our incredibly incisive writings. These Complimentary Sentiments, or "com-ments," form the lifeblood of our work, as without input from our audience we are like blind actors stumbling about on the stage, constantly in danger of tumbling into the orchestra pit. Our corporate masterminds are always on the lookout for new and exciting technologies to improve the commenting process, and now at last the story of their search can be told.

You may all prepare, in the coming months, for a revamped commenting system on SFist. All commenters will have the opportunity to get profiles, so it'll be easier for to identify yourself and link automatically to a list of your recent comments. (Just like how it works on the Gawker sites, one might observe.) Anonymous comments will still be permitted, much to the relief of the Newsom administration, but if you're commenting without using a profile, you won't be able to choose your own name -- it'll just show up as "anonymous." And other readers will have the option of hiding all anonymous comments, so if you don't use a profile, your comments might never be read.

Why are we introducing these breathtaking changes? Gothamist explains,

We've made these changes because the old comment system was constantly getting snarled with spam, and we wanted to give our readers a personal page here on the site.

So that's why we're doing it. If you check out Gothamist, you can see what the future of commenting on SFist will look like, which is good, because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives.

Just LOOK at how happy those lesbians outside City Hall are! (Despite the one on the right having what looks like a dislocated elbow.) They're celebrating SFist's brand new super fantastic orgasmotronic commenting technology! Yes, friends, thanks to a team of magical elves, you can now comment of the posts faster than ever. Each post now has an expandotron-powered commenting form built right into it -- no more clicking "comments" and then waiting for the individual-entry page to load! Now you can comment from the safety and comfort of SFist's front page! Whoo!

We hope you enjoy this new groundbreaking feature, which we invented all by ourselves and nobody else anywhere on the entire Internet has ever done before, ever. Let us know -- in the comments! -- how it's working out for you. The next feature we're working on for the site: embedded MIDI files on every single page! Stay tuned!

For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be answering questions and telling us all about the happy hooking.

On Saturday we encourage you to ogle burlesque dancers and feel the pain of SF's finest sex writers as they tell dirty snarky stories about sex at Thomas Roche's My Sucky Valentine, a benefit for San Francisco Sex Information including Carol Queen, Thea Hillman, Daphne Gottlieb, SFist Violet Blue, Mistress Morgana, mi blue, and Simon Sheppard, as well as MC Roche.

There will also be sexy performances from Bombshell Betty and Lady Monster Burlesque -- who will be performing both a hard-edged modern dance set to her own track from the forthcoming Revolting Cocks album as well as more traditional burlesque.

But wait, that's not all you can do with your tawdry little heart this Valentine's season; read about this weekend's sex parties, the choicest local sex toys, date movies for twisted souls and the world's finest chocoatiers that are right in our own neighborhoods, after the jump.

Thumbnail image: My Sucky Valentine

While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck piece on sex podcasting last weekend telling us for the second time that our friend Susie Bright is a local sex podcaster, when in fact she is neither local nor does she have a podcast. (Santa Cruz based Bright has a pay-for-play Audible radio show; podcasts are free audio files with subscrption-enabling RSS tag enclosures published in a blog format -- big, big difference.)

We undertsand it's not like anyone has time to read last Summer's Wall Street Journal or Newsweek, which held up a veritable sign with a big red arrow pointing to the world of San Francsico sex podcasting. Even if it was a pretty neon blinky sign big enough to point out the fact that we're just filthy with these internationally popular aural sex-a-holics.

But wait, you say -- what is this wonderful filthiness, the untold sex podcasting riches that have gone so woefully overlooked? Behold a sample of some internationally (and extremely) popular local sex podcasters, sure to make your iPod feel used in all the right ways.

Photo: Whorecast: Melissa Gira

Why are we still so latherly? Lots of reasons. Take a look at one of the letters to the editor that was so not run in the Weekly:

Photo of 2006 AVN Awards co-host Jesse Jane via Fleshbot's 2006 AVN Awards: Red Carpet Flickr set.

We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex like, all the time. Sure, the Red Vic is 25 now and all grown up, and we feel really bad we didn't buy the Vic a beer four years ago, but we remember reaching 25 and suddenly getting all sex crazy again. Or maybe it never went away. Regardless, a look at this month's coming (ahem) attractions at one of our favorite movie houses is very revealing, indeed. As in hardcore, 100-year-old porn and two weekends of unintentionally hilarious 3D porn classics.

This weekend, the Red Vic is running the adults-only feature, "The Good Old Naughty Days" which features 69 minutes of porn filmed between 1905 and 1930. The first major theater release of a porn movie since 1972's Deep Throat, we have no idea why it got renamed from "Polisson et Galipettes" ("Rascal and Somersaults") into is current clunky moniker, but it's still really neato to be able to see porn made over a century ago. Those beautiful girls and randy guys are likely no longer among the living, but for a few bucks we can see them cavorting, rutting and acting out the centurian's version of the pizza delivery guy porn skit brought to life.

And don't think that because the porn is old it's any softer than it's contemporary cookie-cutter counterparts. Oh, no, dear reader, quite the opposite. This collection was intended to be shown as an appetizer for brothel patrons' entertainment while they waited for their "date", and it contains material far riskier, raunchier and far less restrained by modern gender and homophibia perceptions than anything coming out of Porn Valley (not to mention better bodies). Vintage come shots, bend-over-boyfriend action and mixed gender couplings are just a taste. What's more, it's rumored that real film professionals were behind the cameras, as evidenced by the eloquent lighting, elaborate costumes and expressive set design.

But our good old naughty friends at the Red Vic aren't stopping there; they not only want to put porn in our faces but in our hot little laps, too; namely with two upcoming weekends featuring the campiest 3D porn films to ever straddle the big screen. That's right, 70s porn in 3D! Imagine the horror, er, we mean, possibilities. Well, whether you think that "Disco Dolls in Hot Skin" (Jan. 13, 14) or "Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy" (starring John Holmes, Jan. 20, 21) are made to frighten, titillate, arouse or annoy, it sounds like a great excuse to kick back on a Red Vic couch, nibble that fresh 'n tasty popcorn. Like we need an excuse to nibble anything.

Hot nights at the Red Vic in January (click for showtimes; no one under 18 admitted, duh):
"The Good Old Naughty Days" Friday the 6th and Saturday the 8th
"Disco Dolls in Hot Skin" Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th
"Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy" Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st

SFist Violet, contributing.