misc Photo du Jour 498 "Lucifer roasting Jack Apocalypse Puppet Theater @ Dia de Los Muertes" by Steve Rhodes.
misc Interspecies Muni Line This is amazing. Someone must have dropped some fast food wrappers or chicken bones on that bus or something, or as Jim Herd suspects, the drivers feed them. (Yeah, we know this photo
misc Photos: Critical Mass Halloween Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was
misc Week Around the Ists Phillyist was all about the World Series this week: hating on the opposing team; waxng nostalgic; and generally getting psyched. Although the Phillies trail the Yankees one game to two in the Series,
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Virgin America, with its new non-stop route from LAX and SFO to Ft. Lauderdale starting 11/18. Very Postmortem,
misc Bag Lady: PACT Underwear by Ryan Robles Look, a great outfit is a great outfit, we won’t argue with you. However, not many are aware that the real heart of a seamless look lies below the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Scenes from Castro Halloween '07 On Halloween night of the first year that the Halloween kibosh began in the Castro, 2007, KRON 4 provided this coverage from the scene. There is an amusing bit with a very drunk
misc Those Life-Size iPhone Dorks and 9 Other Supremely Expensive Halloween Costumes NBC Bay Area has a cute gallery of a number of extremely involved and expensive Halloween costumes, including those guys who constructed two functioning, human-sized iPhones, and a guy who made a working,
misc In Re: Bridge... Does This Mean Halloween Is Back On? With the Bay Bridge out of commission "indefinitely," doesn't that mean there'll be far fewer East Bay teenagers coming to the city for Halloween and therefore fewer events of the stabbing/shooting variety?
misc FailCon: Celebrating High Tech's Failures, For Fun and Education Tired of attending conference after conference in which attendees were regaled with unblemished successes, Cassie Phillipps was inspired to organize FailCon, which went down yesterday at the Kabuki Hotel and which featured panel
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 1986 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Wait, you need us to explain this to you? No amount of text could do this cardio performance of a lifetime justice. This clip is, in a word, genius. Watch members of the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco 1958 San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo. Jeff Altman of Chicago discovered this beautiful old film reel of his grandfather's, entitled "Alameda 1958." Altman's grandfather, who is pictured in front of the
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via E.K.: "Dear BART a-holes: When you see a sweaty pregnant woman on a crowded train checking her bloodsugar while trying to balance her bags, standing up, it would be polite to
misc Reminder: Fight the "Anti-Fun" People at City Hall Today at 1 p.m. As we all know, San Francisco nightlife has been under fire quite a bit lately. In addition to the ongoing saga of the Alcoholic Beverage Control's enforcement of arbitrary rules they've set for
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist was struck by this photograph of a rat stuck while trying to emerge from under a sidewalk. And Gothamist readers let their imaginations go wild, offering various scenarios for the rat. Phillyist
misc Power Exchange Opens Tonight Break out the imported poppers, folks. Tonight, after much caterwauling and hand-wringing, the new Power Exchange sex club opens for business. The sexual intercourse goes from 9 p.m to 5 a.m.
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Virgin America, with its new non-stop route from LAX and SFO to Ft. Lauderdale starting 11/18. Very Postmortem,
misc "No Farting" Sign Appears in Mission A new sign outside a 16th & Mission business appears to be prohibiting flatulence on or near the premises. The provenance for the sign, or the recent need for such prohibitions in the
