While walking along Post Street this morning, we came across the above "mysterious" sign at Taylor Street and wondered where the film shoot was. Then we happened to turn down Mason and encountered the film crew at Geary and Mason, as an SFist tipster noted earlier. The set-up was all still there on our walk back home this evening. We're guessing it was for a commercial of some sort. They filmed a Quaker Oats......

It's a melancholy Everybody Hates Chris column about the District 6 election: this week's episode -- Everybody Hates Death. We were sorry to read in the paper that one of the candidates that we didn't get in touch with, James Leo Dunn, passed away last month of a stomach aneurysm. Dunn ran for District 6 in 2000 on the platform that the city build a tunnel underneath Taylor Street in Nob Hill to house the......

The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the same, blah blah." Perhaps the problem wasn't with the cafes your Trimethyldioxypurist was visiting. Perhaps the problem was, in fact, your Trimethyldioxypurist. We tend to gravitate toward what we're comfortable with, toward what we know. So, in our efforts to find......