Because we love nothing better than a "We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Going To Take It Anymore" story, we give you this story, about a local Bay Area woman who got stuck on a tarmac for nine and a half hours when her flight got diverted from it's point of destination. The flight she took was supposed to have been from SFO to Dallas (as in Dallas, Texas, not Dulles-- we always get them confused and boy, nothing says "we're an idiot" like getting on the wrong plane) but the flight was diverted to Austin because of tornado warnings in the Dallas area. And so her plane sat. And sat. And sat some more. For nine and a half hours. Finally, they were allowed to fly off and fifty hours after they left, they finally made it to their destination. Let's hope it wasn't for a long weekend. ...

The FCC took a break from fining people for cursing and investigated local news programs who aired video news releases instead of, you know, actual news. Two of the stations that were caught doing it were KGO and KPIX. Whoops. KRON did it too but for some reason isn't mentioned, but then again, nobody watches KRON anyways...

The third sign of the apocalypse is upon us (the first being the TomKitten and the second being, um.... the closing down of all the local independent bookstores), as the weather reports grimly predict that water will fall from the sky over the weekend. What?? It's May! It's not supposed to rain in May! Actually, the National Weather Service says that the average Bay Area May gets 3 days and a half-inch of rain. That......

Our weekly roundup of the theater that looks interesting to us. This week, SFist Karen hightails it out of town to Humboldt. For a theater event there. Seriously....

[Ed. Note: There's nothing more flattering than having people offer to write for you because they like your site and have something new and interesting to add to it. So please welcome our new weatherman, SFist Ted, who's busy running Dogster and Catster when he isn't pretending to point to happy suns and clouds in front of a bluescreen in his basement.] What an uneventful week to start as SFist Weatherman. Last week had......