Arts & Entertainment This Is Why I'm Not Retweeting You It's been said often enough regarding our current cultural moment: We've all become a little too desperate for the immediate validation provided by Facebook Likes, comments, and retweets. For various media types and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Tech Culture' Is Now Ruining Five-Hour Dinners Too "Tech Culture" — that nebulous boogeyman currently haunting San Francisco — is there anything it can't ruin? Esteemed San Francisco Chronicle food critic and lifestyle blogger Michael Bauer is on a rant over on Inside
SF News Twitter: Most Powerful Social Medium Ever, Or Endless Stream Of Drivel? Discuss. In the wake of Sunday's Twitter dust-up involving Woody Allen and comments that Mia Farrow and their son Ronan made regarding Allen's alleged pedophiliac tendencies, it's gotten people talking (again) about how powerful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Goes Off On Person Who 'Zoned' His Burrito "Empire of sour cream," "lettuce country," and "cilantro cavern" — these are terms we give the Lord thanks for today for we just had the pleasure... no, the honor of reading Lucky Shirt's rant
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Market And Sanchez: Anti-Google Screed A disgruntled anti-Googler has put up this large-scale poster, poetically decrying the search engine's inexorable reach into our lives. It reads: I'm watching you/ I'm targeting you. I'm searching for you. I'm tracking
SF News Startup Bro Apologizes For San Francisco Rant Startup co-founder Peter Shih whose anti-San Francisco rant sparked an outcry that, among other things, resulted in these flyers strewn about town on Friday published an apology over the weekend. Shih's screed, if
SF News DUI Suspect's Shocking Twitter Rant Against Arresting Officer 48-year-old Khalil Jaser was arrested for last summer in Brisbane, California for driving under the influence. Then, like a shunned lover, he proceeded to call his arresting officer a total of 152 times,
misc Gay Men and Uppers SFist received the following hot tip this morning. 'Gay men and uppers''just the way God wanted it'!!!! Gay men and uppers are two things that God most certainly does not want. Thankfully He
misc Today In Stupid Real Estate Marketing A player? In a real estate site? In our ideal world Real estate sites should show us what the place would look like were we to live in there instead of the kind
misc Preggo Skinny Bitches Heart <i>A Pea in A Pod</i> [Sorry to go all Noe Valley on you lovely readers, but yes, one more SFist writer is knocked up and ready to rant.] A Pea in a Pod near Union Square was on
misc Haight, Gutterpunks, and Dogs As we passed by, the dog lunged out and clamped its jaws on our friend's leg. The bite broke no skin, but it scared the hell out of our friend. She told us
misc Vallejo Mayor Disgusted By Folsom Street Fair But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- -- Openly
misc Douchebags of the Week And yes, we guess we could have gotten out of our car to pick the garbage back up to dump off, but, well, first of all, iyick, and we were late for a
misc "Whore Alert" on MySpace You see, links like this serve one purpose. Even though we know that the internet is primarily for porn and reading SFist, there are evil people out there who want to steal your
misc When Apple Sends You a Lemon, Make Lemonade We had been a proud, satisfied owner of an Apple PowerBook for a little over two years (and a blue-and-white G3 for five years before that) when it all went quickly downhill last
misc MUNI Tales: 'That's Why It's Dangerous To Have Coffee On These Things' True story from a crowded J-Church this morning. We were sitting quietly, a little zoned out, holding the 20 oz. cup of coffee that we'd obtained at our neighborhood cafe with both of
misc Yahoo's Happy To Share Personnel News; Not So Chatty About New Webmail Ads So, we were just reading the newswires, and came across this story of how one of Yahoo's co-founders, Jerry Yang, has been named CEO. Well, "yahoo" for him . . . we guess. Perhaps he'll help
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
misc Dear Gaviffer, We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead. As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said:
misc Meet Me at the Coffee Shop/We Can Dance Like Iggy Pop It's two in the afternoon, doesn't anybody have jobs? And it's the worst kind of coffee shop denizens too, the kind who have their laptop on and are pretty much camped out there
misc Tales of Parking Woes Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time
misc Save the World From Bomb-Wielding Grandmas But because we all have to go through the rigmarole, we all have experienced the silliness of it. In our trip back east, we saw perhaps the silliest thing we have ever seen
misc SFist Rants: Curb Your Yellow Bus Elsewhere Our block circling antics have happened everywhere from Russian Hill and North Beach to Civic Center and SOMA, at varying days and times. However, we don't usually like to play the blame game
misc SFist Rants: Children Sometimes Should Neither Be Seen Nor Heard So, do you: a)Rent a DVD and watch something at home with the kids and see the movie later without the kids b)Go to another movie instead and see the movie
