misc Blocker: 1300 La Playa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
misc Happy Birthday, Smurfs On October 23, 1958 (!), The Smurfs (AKA Les Schtroumpfs) were thrust upon an unsuspecting world. Here's to you, Peyo. Your creation proved annoying on Saturday mornings, delightful in cereal form, and judging by
misc RIP: Rice-A-Roni Inventor Guy Perhaps in the traumatic stage of denial, we forgot to bring you some old obit news. Vincent M. DeDomenico, who co-created Rice-A-Roni along with his brothers, died last Thursday at 92. We tasted
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
misc Now Here's Something We Never Saw Coming We have to say that this certainly puts Phineas Nigellus's quote about Dumbledore in "Order of the Phoenix"-- "you know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannot deny
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one with the deer head. Truly CA, stories
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
misc Twin Peaks Properties The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently,
misc BLŪ Eastern SOMA's budding, unfortunately named condo "community" BLŪ, on Folsom and Second Streets, is about ready to bloom in all of its steel and glass glory. Problem is, we don't see any lottery
misc Blocker: 100 Taylor Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
misc Quebecoise Same-Sex Jailhouse Wedding This begs the question: which one is the bitch? Like most gay guys, they both probably say that they're versatile, but once you get them in bed? Total bitches. Also, this sucks. Even
misc It's a Third Reich Blowout! What would one even do with such an item? Anyway, other Nazi forget-me-nots going up for sale include documents signed by the lunatic leader, and a box of cigars once owned by Hermann
misc Guest Is Officially Gone Some not-so-sad news: missing for several weeks, guest's dead body was found in a ditch this morning, naked and beaten beyond recognition. Dental records and IP info were used to identify the body.
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
misc At Last, Your Vast Collection of Brooding Self-Portraits can be Put to Good Use Ha ha, just kidding, heterosexuals can help too! But seriously, they don't want pictures of straight people. The "Shades of LGBTQI" project is looking for donations from the community; they want photographs --
misc Correction: Can You Spot the Heterosexuals? The Chronicle couldn't. And neither could we. That is, until we read today's most awesome "Corrections" on SFGate. -- In Saturday's story about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the sexual orientation of the
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers As is the custom around these parts, we would like to take a moment to thank this weeks' advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one
misc What is this NoMa Neighborhood? According to this map we saw right near the Ferry Building, it looks like the borders are Taylor, Bush, O'Farrell, and Van Ness, shrinking the Official Tenderloin to a mere twenty-ish square blocks.
misc It's National Coming Out Day And just who will come out on this most pointless day of days? Matthew McConaughey? Wolverine? That one guy on that one show you think you saw one time at the Cafe? 50
misc Kicking It at Barbary Lane Senior Communities What the hell? We're no where near 40 yet. So why are we receiving the following flyer in our mailbox for assisted independent retirement living? Still, we love the idea of queer-littered retirement
misc Blocker: 1000 Broadway Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
misc Dear Abby Supports the Gays Even more pressure to stop screwing around and settle down, this time from advice columnist Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, aaka Dear Abby. "I believe if two people want to commit to
misc Dell Using Nerd Wins Physics Nobel Prize No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles,
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We'd like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Cazadores, because it's got a deer head! Stylized Sculpture, starting next Friday at the Asian Art Museum. Walk for
