Arts & Entertainment The Doomed Adventures of the Superfisters It's a beautiful, mournful look back at a miserable 1987, wherein a boy's emotions are repeatedly chiseled away by a world that doesn't care that he has any feelings at all. Nobody cares
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Something to Prove Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl talking to her friend at the next table (which had a paper table cloth covered in doodles): "I had to
Arts & Entertainment The Flesh-Baring Adventures of the Superfisters We kinda suspect that the debauchery seen in "Hard to Swallow" -- orgies of muscular men, fluid-spurting phalluses, sexual grave desecrations, gay hookers fondly remembering tricks of yore -- are represetative of how
misc Awesome New Feature! 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
Arts & Entertainment Good Show, Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Striped shirt Marina guy: "It's like, we hold these truths to be self-evident. What movie is that from again?" -- From
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Confirm our Suspicions Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Cocktail waitress to guy at bar: "Hey, did you ever end up taking that pill you found?" Guy at bar: "Um
Arts & Entertainment The Frolicking Adventures of the Superfisters How can you not love Long Tail Kitty, you heartless fiend? The answer is that you cannot. You are powerless to resist his high-spirited capering. Drawn by local artist Lark Pien, sees LTK
Arts & Entertainment Hungry? Go Fetch! Of course you remember that bouncing-ball commercial they shot in SF a few months ago. Wasn't it pretty? Yes, yes it was. But we couldn't help thinking, at the time, "couldn't this be
Arts & Entertainment We Have No Idea What Yvesdroppings Are Referring To Yes, we know that technically it should be "to what Yvesdroppings refer." Whatever. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl on Phone: "He wants to move to
SF News The First Rule of NextBus: There is no NextBus All of the electric busses -- every single one, on every single electric line -- have NextBus transponders. They've had 'em since December. (The diesel busses are getting hooked up soon, too.) They've
Arts & Entertainment City CarShare's Old Enough to Start Kindergarten Happy birthday to you! City CarShare (it's basically a membership-based car rental program with extra perks) turns five this year, and they're throwing a party and giving out awards. Nancy Pelosi will be
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Get Out and About Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. First girl: "Do you have a myspace account?" Second Girl: "No, but my dog does." -- From Jamison/SOMA A four-year-old
Arts & Entertainment The TOTALLY FREE Adventures of the Superfisters It's tough to describe what a Moomin is -- they look like Japanese kawaii-things, but they're really quiet-natured Finnish creatures with a knack for finding magical adventures. There's a dark edge to the
SF News The Cala Bell Tolls for Thee So we asked the cashier, as they rang up our Stoli and cardamom, OMFG WTF BBQ? Nobody knows for sure, but the Cala folks predicted that after the store closes for good on
SF News Mark of the Beast Appears in Castro; "That Sounds About Right" Says Rest of Country Anyway, if you're feeling uppity, you can report vandalism like this to the DPW by calling 415-28-CLEAN. They're startlingly quick -- we've found that they can have messes cleaned up in under 24
Arts & Entertainment We're So Proud of our Hometown Whore Even though she once made fun of our blog's name (and who hasn't) we've always loved that lovable scamp, Peaches Christ. So we're pleased as punch to hear that the queen's finally hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: US Premiere of <i>Romance and Cigarettes</i> All that really needs to be said about is this: Christopher Walken ... singing and dancing ... to Tom Jones' "Delilah." Honestly, if that three-minute sequence was the entire movie, we would've been satisfied. In
Arts & Entertainment The Challenging Adventures of the Superfisters Attempting to read an issue is sort of like climbing Mount Everest -- several times, we nearly had to give up in exhaustion. If your stomach is strong and your attention span is
SF News It's a Municipal Horn of Plenty If it's the Board of Supes you're looking to subscribe to, you've got to navigate through "Video on Demand" (even if you're seeking audio, not video), then click "Board of Supervisors," and then
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Need a New Job Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Female clerk yelling at male (clerk? boyfriend? whipping boy?): "TIM! Get up here and wipe the blood off this bill right now. It's grossing me
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." The six-book series explores Asianness, whatever that
SF News Go Team Fisters! The story behind it is this: back in February, GE was soliciting Flickr users to submit pictures of themselves doing "healthy" things for use in a GE ad campaign. We didn't care what
SF News Gavin's Nominee for Muni Board Pledges NOT to Make Transit his Top Priority You know everyone on the Muni board THINKS it, but we've really got to admire someone who actually comes out and says that they've got better stuff to worry about than busses and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
