Muni issued an alert yesterday afternoon that said simply, "Emergency - Powell line cable cars back in service." Oh no! Emergency! Cable cars unleashed on an unsuspecting public! Save yourselves! Run for the hills! Oh no wait -- the hills are exactly where the cable cars WANT you to run! Okay, okay, we jest. Obviously it's just a poor choice of words, not real peril. We can't begin to guess why someone thought that......

-- Oh dead God: "Hearts in San Francisco" returns. Sweet cuddly baby Jesus, help us all. [Curbed SF] -- Prop A passed. And? [BeyondChron] -- Siamese Conjoined twins separated. Pft. Please. Wake us up when they sprout eight limbs. [Chron] -- More Dan Noyes! [The Snitch] -- BRT and subways in Beijing, China. (Have you ever seen a cleaner subway in your entire life? Sob.) [N-Judah Chronicles] -- Crab season hurt? Boo! Tourist season......

-- Girlfight tonight! Well, not tonight, but some nights ago, one presumably drunk girl stabbed another in the eye her stiletto heel at (ugh) Slide. [The Snitch] -- "Chili finger woman" may get a more mild sentence. Hey, we thought she had a good idea there, but...alas. [CBS5] -- No really, did Gavin think about this? [SFBG] -- Democrat fundraiser cum fugitive Norman Hsu's suicide attempt. [Chron] -- Ed Jew pleads not guilty, won't......

Okay, so the family is coming for the holidays and you don't know what to do other than the Wharf and any place that doesn't involve getting solicited for spare change every ten feet. Or maybe you got nothing to do this holiday season and your cheap-ass company is only doing a White Elephant type party while your friends have all these kick-ass Christmas parties on ships or with great bands and you need something to do to get into the holiday spirit. Well, we got the web site for you....

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! Chris Daly to a prospective voter: "I'm the lone gunman on the grassy knoll." - From Rita/At 16th and Mission Tourist lady, attempting to board......

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place. SFist Tourist......

So, SFist Tourist has a bit of a confession: we went on the Chinatown Ghost Tour over a week ago and plumb forgot to write about it until we were watching Big Trouble in Little China last night. It could have been the misnomer in the name. Not that we thought a ghost would lead the tour, but you certainly don't go to a monster truck rally and not expect to see monster trucks.......

Everybody welcome new contributor SFist Jessica, who bravely ventures where no local dares -- the world of the San Francisco tourist. "God, tourists!" We are all familiar with the shameful epithet meant to invoke images of pasty, overfed Midwesterners milling about Fisherman's Wharf, clad in SF sweatshirts and fanny packs, and desperately trying to locate the nearest Olive Garden. For the most part, being a Tourist is a bad thing. We avoid them, we don't......

Local filmmaker James Nguyen is explaining the premise of his next film, Birdemic (it's about a bird epidemic) to us over lunch. "I want it to make the audience think," he says, "America is the most powerful nation on Earth. What if a flock of birds attack me -- how would I feel? How would I feel?" A few sentences later, he reveals that Tippi Hedren, star of The Birds and Satan's Harvest, agreed......

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Street bum: Do you have some change please? Dude: I don't, sorry. Street bum: Don't be sorry, die. -- SFist Cedric British Tourist 1: Hey, remember Tweaker-Boy? British Tourist 2: Oh yeah, Tweaker-Boy! "It's my birthday, can I have a BJ?" Ha ha ha! -- Castro & Market Girl: That patio furniture looks like bondage gear. Boy: Bondage is the new wicker.......