misc LiveJournal Election '08 Plagued by Death Threats, Harry Potter Male Pregnancies Blogging service LiveJournal.com, formerly owned by San Francisco-based SixApart up until December 2007 and now owned by Russian-based media company SUP (with its USA-based LiveJournal, Inc. offices located here at 576 Folsom
misc Photo du Jour 136 When ordering an after-dinner tea at Slanted Door, you'll be asked, "Smokey or floral?" This is what you get with "floral." Isn't it loverly?
misc Quote of the Day: Sharon Stone Former Marin resident and current insane person, Sharon Stone, made the following Jerry Falwell-ish quip the other day. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine
misc "Indestructible" at the Roxie From March 2007:SFist tends to stick pretty close to SF but this week’s Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose has been calling to us and we made it all way to
misc Kill Your TV Taken Literally On Eddy Street This morning in the Western Addition, a woman escaped the cold hands of death after a bullet went right through her window and into her TV. Yikes. Watching it around 2:30 a.
misc SFist's Editor Snags Highly-Regarded "Best Of" Award Congratulations to SFist Editor Brock Keeling for winning the Best Blogger title in SFWeekly's annual Best Of edition! It of course comes as no surprise to us that Brock is being honored along
misc Photo du Jour 136 We've seen this poster, and variations thereof, scattered about the city as of late. We're not sure what we think of them.
misc Blocker: 200 Steiner Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a regular series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist every other Wednesday, before the lunching hour. View the map of
misc Frank Chu's Wikipedia Page Uncovers His Dark Side Frank Chu, 48, the Bay Ara;s favoritest pathological resident, has a Wikipedia page, naturally. It goes into much detail about his media whoring, numerous protest signs, and "performance art." It also mentions
misc Photo du Jour 135 Gavin delivered the commencement speech to SFSU students this past weekend. We don't know what he said, exactly. (Does it even matter? Commencement speeches are nothing but tissues of lies, right?) But, boy,
misc Scenes From an Accident at Pine and Battery Well, this is jarring. This morning at little before 11 a.m. at Pine and Battery a rather nasty accident happened. Reader Mike Miller sent SFist images and a brief report of the
misc Your Little Lhasa Apso Is Going Down Does this mean Oh noes! Be careful! We have poison on our grass and don't want your dog to get hurt? Or does it mean, Your dog craps on our lawn, and we're
misc How Good Was Your AIM? The eduction program is blowing twenty candles this year, so a slew of kids who went through it (22,000 a year!) must be now SFist commenters. Teachers, feel free to give us
misc Photo du Jour 133 We're gargantuan fans of local photographer Darwin Bell. Famous for his use of polaroids, his digital images are just as spectacular. The above shot ("the chocolate orgy ended in love") is an old
misc Call Arnold To Tell Him You Totally Support Gay Marriage, Or Else It seems every queer we've ever come across in our lifetime has clogged your Editor's inbox this weekend with the following urgent request to call Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It seems we need to
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist was enraptured by the Telectroscope, supposedly developed from a "forgotten tunnel connecting New York to London." SFist, after providing a practical map of liquor stores near the historically naked/tipsy Bay to
misc Quote of the Day: iPhones and Stubby Fingers Coming from the Editor's mobile communication device, we received a text today with the following signature: Sent from my iPhone / Typed with my pinky Yes, yes -- it's funny because it's true. But.
misc Working Hard or Hardly Working? (By Eyleen Tavy) After a disturbingly easy commute, no line at Blue Bottle, and 15 minutes spent deleting the zillions of Out of Office emails that cluttered our inbox, we're ready to face
misc Kirk Janes, RIP The name of the bicyclist killed yesterday has been released. He was Kirk Janes, founder of the American Flyer bike messenger service, and a well-known figure in the local bike messenger community. We
misc Tales Of Mere Existence "Graduation" (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz R.O.T.