We swore we were done with Easter. We weren't going to mention it at all this week. We felt we'd used up our allotted portion of bandwidth on it, and that it was all played out. No more. And then. And then. This. We may be world-weary, we may be agnostic, but whatever we are we were jaw-droppingly amazed by Meathenge's Easter idea. We don't want to spoil it for you, so just go,......

Just as the rain stopped, everyone has a new favorite blog topic--it's earthquake centennial madness! Eric over at and the Family Buick has a fairly lengthy write-up of the event, while Rangelife has a fever, and the only cure is--more cowbell. Sorry, wrong pop culture reference. We're still on the earthquake. Your favorite ex-bathroom attendant has a write-up on the plucky fire hydrant that saved so many, while sfdx has a different drink in mind. Mona has a beautiful pic of one of the survivors up on her blog. Some others, though, are more concerned about the effects of the next big one. Jennifer admits that she's been rattled by all the voice of doom coverage, and Jamison gets snarky over what he feels is unfair proactive re-distribution of blame. Maybe he should keep the turtle he found, a pet might make him feel better. Art makes us feel better. We love that we live in a town where art thrives. The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue posts protest art this week, while the California Department of Corrections went big time and Kvatch takes over Market Street. This poster--literally--thinks locally. VJ Culture isn't protesting anything, but we do lament the fact we'll never be as cool and smart--at the same time--as he is. On the other hand, we have jerks here, too, as chronicled this week by Ed, in addition to Thomas Hawk's ongoing struggles with building security guards. So is it any wonder that sometimes we just go a little goofy? And sometimes, when the stars are aligned correctly, we have smart, goofy Newsom protest blogs that makes milk come out our noses. You suck! Have a nice day! Picture from If I Ran The Zoo. SFist Jacob, contributing. ...

Any post that starts "I'm in a light, summery mood today," in spite of the weather, well, that deserves to lead off the round-up this week. The rain's affecting everyone, including Cookiecrumb up in Marin, so we can only imagine the impact this is having on larger farmers and growers. For us, when the weather gets too awful, we always like tea. We like the steam and sweets and the way it makes us feel......

Sometimes we get burnt out on politics. Sometimes, in order to watch TV, we actually turn on the TV. Sometimes, mainly when Google on our cell phones allows us to lose a baseball trivia bet more quickly than we ever thought possible, we get a little bitter about the vast resources of information on the web. In those quiet, still moments we gravitate towards blog posts that are about nothing more than introspection and personal growth. Antics so Blonde obsesses over her tax return, while Geese gets all in aflutter about the giant hole of suck that is MySpace. Amy LeBlanc gets all blissed out at her boyfriend's birthday celebration, the same as XT. Jennifer at Mental Hijinks lovingly documents her field trip to Pixar, with some more pix over at Kimi's post. Brimful reminds us of why we were English majors and swooned over poetry with her own beautiful post and Joel writes a piece that examines the politics and emotional growth behind receiving the Advocate in a plain white plastic wrapper and makes it cut to the quick. And sometimes, we just want to be left alone.

Then, somehow, despite the rain, we're done with introspection. We want to read totally inaccurate, absolutely false writing and believe it totally. We want fiction. Yes, it's marketing, but we don't care. If it's good, it's good.

Finally, after our cleanse, we're ready to face the world again. Ready to accept Microsoft into our lives, ready to go hiking or talk politics. We're ready for literature, rain and the apocalypse. We're ready and reading for you. SFist Jacob, contributing. "Morning Clouds on Bay Bridge" by Thomas Hawk. ...

In the excellent William Gibson novel Pattern Recognition, the main character has a panic attack every time she is confronted with the image of Bibendum, the Michelin Man. we don't really blame her, the early pics of him were pretty, well, not pretty. In that vein, we can only imagine the plotzing that's going on in some of the Bay Area's finest kitchens following the announcement that the revered Michelin Guide has chosen to focus......

Rain, rain, Blue Sky">go away. Come again another day. . . With all that gloom, all the April Fool's jokes this past weekend were more welcome than usual. We're not sure--does it make us populists or hipster snobs to want these posts to be really, honest, pinky-swear true? There was plenty of humor to be found when South Park visited San Francisco, lovingly captured by Range Life. Check here for some real tales of danger......

We here at the Food Blog Round-Up constantly put our appetites and credulity on the line to make sure you stay on the cutting edge of food bloggery, so we can appreciate it when someone out there in the blogosphere also steps up to keep the words flowing. And so we present this Token of Esteem to Jon, husband to The Restaurant Whore, who fearlessly kept blogging, even in the face of a Saturday evening......

Happy Spring! Which means its time for Spring cleaning. While we here at SFist are all in favor of small rent-controlled studio apartments, we're not so fond of the small kitchen. Justin Spring, courtesy of Heidi Swanson, taught us some ways to organize our confined kitchens more efficiently and also had some good tips for non-lethal cleaning supplies. A new blog for us this week is Sweet Napa. She's attending culinary school in Napa and......

Got unending war? Sorry to start the round up on such a downer, especially as so many in San Francisco did a lot this weekend to try and stop it. As always, Civic Center does an amazing job as a citizen journalist, something Oona Robertson can definitely appreciate. We're thinking of signing her up as SFist's youngest correspondent. Special thanks to Comedy Notebook for defusing our snark so that now we at the roundup......

We know it makes us hopelessly recherche, but this particular outpost of the SFist empire has never seen an episode of The Sopranos and can't afford HBO, so its season premiere last Sunday was a non-event for us. However, Catherine Nash's recipe for spaghetti and meatballs, that we could get behind. It says it makes 42 meatballs. That seems a little low for us, but then again, our mother only knew how to make......

SFist Jacob steps up to the blog pulse plate, while SFist Jackson's on hiatus. All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all this cold just means the onset of summer. Still, if you're jonesing for some tropical island loveliness, head over to the Humu Kon Tiki's San Francisco section to......

The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are open source awards, only with taste buds, not coding. And just as Firefox kicks Redmond's butt, the winners of these awards are worth seeking out. Some are national, some are local, all are good. Those golden statues barely got a mention in the food-o-sphere. Seemingly only Bruce Cole, editor of Edible San Francisco, deemed them worthy of talk and then only as a way to explain why you're better off cooking red meat than watching the red carpet. His technique sounds good, but would some pictures kill him? As long as we're in meatlandia, let's just go all out: Bacon for dinner! More meat (goat and crab), SFist Sam, and liquid nitrogen ice cream, after the jump. SFist Jacob, contributing...

We at SFist are constantly on the search to make life better for you, and what could be better than flying like a superhero through our fave city via Google Earth, or racing around in a totally rad Pole Position car? When that gets old, here's a few more ways to use maps with an API interface that actually are helpful. We'll assume that everyone knows about the AC Transit and MUNI Nextbus apps and......

Food blogs are the new ipods: everyone who's anyone has got to have one, so SFist has decided to help you out and cherry pick this week's choicest offerings.

Which means we have no time for Elise's Simply Recipes write-up of Liver and Onions, it simply won't get mentioned. No matter how good she may make it sound, liver and onions just weren't meant to be eaten. We can fully stand behind her simple how to cook and eat an artichoke post, however, especially as they're just coming into season.

Shuna at Eggbeater, fresh from a month on the farm and a move across the bay to Berkeley, is finally unpacking and showing off her Wedgewood stove.

The ever-helpful Catherine Nash over at Foodmusings has put out an SOS for a good Black Velvet recipe for her cupcake obsessed readers, which means that not everyone just goes to Love at First Bite in Berkeley for their mouthful of bliss fix. She's soliciting readers' fave recipes in her comments, but be sure and not give grandma's recipe away entirely.

And the award for best lemonade out of lemons goes to Cookie Crumb up in Marin, who was trying to get a little kelp but settled for making her own sea salt. Any scientists out there who think this is actually safe after the boiling?

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Our concert picks for the week of 5/26-6/1. Although Memorial Day should mean more than just a day off from work (if you get the day off, and, well, if you have a job), clubs do take advantage of the three day weekend by offering up an action-packed Sunday night. But of course, San Francisco offers up stellar music events all week long. You could spend tonight with the straight-from-the-bottle swillers in The Cuts at......