Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Well-Connected Woman on cell phone: "If you ever get nominated for the Grammies, you are SO taking me as your guest." -- From Edward/Montgomery Street Station Dude: "WHOOOO! I cant wait for Jason's
Arts & Entertainment Gays Love Cowboys? Who Knew! We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
Arts & Entertainment Back in the Day... Like, Two Centuries Back We were walking through the Cow Palace the other day -- that giant warehouse-ish building, way south of the Mission, where they have rodeos and exhibitions and stuff -- when who should walk
SF News Google, Take Me Away Our heart skipped a beat when we heard that some collaborative Twenty-Percent-Time at Google was being devoted to creating transit trip planners. We haven't bothered using the loathsome transit.511.org for a
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
Arts & Entertainment Happy Holidays from SFist: Win a "Zatch Bell" DVD! What works well in Japan sometimes doesn't exactly translate over here. "Zatch Bell" passed its hundred-episode mark overseas, but it's made a much more modest splash stateside. The story concerns a race of
SF News You Can't Get There From Here ... Yet Also on the agenda for the meeting: the Third Street Light Rail project is behind schedule and over budget. Suprise! Service will be start in fall of 2006 at the earliest -- what
Arts & Entertainment The Superlative Adventures of the SuperFisters Kablammo! Oh excuse us. We were just reading some comic books. This week, courtesy of Isotope's guidance, we're checking out Harvey Pekar's new book, ; as well as Desolation Jones, a newish series inked
Arts & Entertainment And Now For A Bit Of Culture A burgled cache of vintage erotica, produced by Adolf himself, is the Maguffin that gets the ball rolling in "Desolation Jones," a series of comix by Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III.
Arts & Entertainment It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Yvesdropping Kid: "...and then they give you eggnog, but you might not like it." Smaller kid: "What's eggnog?" Kid: "You don't know? It's Christmas milk, dummy." -- On the N Creepy Metreon In-Theater Food
Arts & Entertainment The Incendiary Adventures of the SuperFisters (Prologue) It was a day like any other, we recall, when Isotope Comics suddenly fell into our lap -- and then, in a blur of capes and shotguns, we were off on the wildest
Arts & Entertainment It is Obvious That we Yvesdrop in Social Spheres That are Widely Different Guy: “Hey, watch for a parking spot for me, will ya?” Other guy, under his breath: “There’s some weird planetary s**t going on right now, man.” -- From Ginevra / Outside Artists'
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
SF News And Now For Some Wet Hot Juicy Religion It was almost a year ago that someone put our names on the mailing list of "Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter," and it's been an eye-opening couple of months. For example,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Should See A Doctor Crusty Bum #1 pointing at leg of Crusty Bum #2: "That's not crabs that does that. Lice don't do that neither." -- From Marty / Outside Civic Center Library Frat Dude on Cell: "Yeah,
SF News We're Picking Up On Some Bad Vibz Here Anyway, in honor of this innovative technique, SFist is breaking its usual policy of locally hosting all images -- that's right, we're stealing their bandwidth by pulling their cityvibs logo directly from their
SF News Fallon Walks Among Us Tipster Yoshi infoms us: On Sunday night, my girlfriend and I spotted a bespectacled Jimmy Fallon at Specs Bar in North Beach, digital camera in hand he looked like any other tourist, except
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Find Success Elusive Guy on cell: "I lost forty pounds in the last 20 weeks! I want to look great in that courtroom." -- On the 21 @ Diviz On the Muni excalators at Civic Center, a
SF News We Like NextBus and We Cannot Lie http://www.nextbus.com/googleMap/test.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=31 Most buslines aren't on the system yet; if you enter a line that isn't wired, then the "Initializing Agency" message simply
Arts & Entertainment Entrepreneur ... Filmmaker ... and Space Tourguide "Master of the Romantic Thriller -- that's what I'm known for," James tells us. And indeed, it is difficult to think of any cinematic peers to his films, including (tagline: "Can There be
Arts & Entertainment CineKink: <i>S/M at the Movies</i> and <i>The Best of CineKink</i> The crowd at was about 90% men, and of them, well more than half were in leather. Presenter Thor Stockman, himself a practicing sadist, described how Hollywood's attitude towards perverts has always been
SF News The SFist Guide To Election 2005: The Local Stuff Wait, what's that you say? There's lots of political bickering in San Francisco? Well blow us down! We'd never have guessed. As usual, this year's local ballot features some posturing, some confusing language,
Arts & Entertainment Recovering Yvesdropping Boy: "My mom taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was a kid. And I made lots of bags and pillows. They're pretty much the same thing. Except one has
