Miscellaneous: December 2008 Archives

"New Years, about to unfurl" by Darwin Bell. Happy almost New Year's, everybody! It's been quite a year, eh? Like, hope and economy and no Golden Globe Awards broadcast and stuff. Wow, is right. Here's to hoping 2009 is even livelier. So, what are you all doing tonight? Whatever it is, we hope it's someplace safe, caring, and far away from the tender glow of a computer screen. Warmest, SFist....

Mission Mission's Allan Hough brought this to our attention today. Ahem. 'I just got a call. Wrong number. "Hi, I was wondering if you guys have a video called 'Transgendered Prison?'" Ah, the hilarity of 415.' Hilarity, indeed. Also, we cannot seem to find TP anywhere online, so the cinematic gem might be dubious. If you find it, do send it our way. ...

Matt Jalbert, who snapped the shot above, says, "The redeveloped area along Mission Creek just gets better and better as the landscaping grows in and the construction mess recedes. This is a great addition to the City!" We agree....

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Really, why are you working this week? Because, let's see, we have two work days (today, tomorrow), one kinda work day (New Year's Eve), and another alleged work day on Friday. But if you were crafty enough to worm your way out of the office this week, thus providing you with a rare opportunity to go on a week-long bender, you would be eating bon-bons, watching Maury, and cutting the tops of your CD cases to bits right now. But you aren't, so you're......

The much-loved and much-missed Shiba Inu Puppy Cam -- which, at the risk of missing a moment to brag, SFist was the first to report onback in October -- came in at number three in People Pets' Top Ten Pet Moments of 2008. In November alone, 3 million people tuned in to see the pups squirm, squeal, sleep, whimper, and woo the world with their silly puppy antics. Soon the story took off from SF to wider media outlets like Dlisted, HuffPo, and Ellen. You hear that? Ellen,......

Photo by Jim Herd A Russian Hill porta-potty remains standing. For now. ...

Photo by rowenoftc Dale Chihuly at the De Young Museum....

This Sunday, the current San Francisco 49ers will be honoring the 49ers of the past by wearing mustaches in their final game of 2008 against Washington. We will honor this honor by honoring Great 49er Mustaches as this game draws nigh. Defensive end Kevin Fagan and his mighty mustache helped hold the line for George Seifert's boxer's-mentality 3-4 defensive scheme during the zenith of San Francisco's 1980s power. Fagan served stolidly in the d-line trenches alongside such fellows as Pierce Holt, Larry Roberts, the unforgivable Jim Burt, Danny Stubbs, Antonio Goss, and......

Photo found at WhatImSeeing. Embarcadero Center Ice Rink/. Sponsored by Wachovia. Aw....

Photo by klimari1. A very WASPy crown pork roast is being served at SFist HQ for X-mas dinner. What's on your menu tonight? Oh, and Happy Christmas, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth....

This Sunday, the current San Francisco 49ers will be honoring the 49ers of the past by wearing mustaches in their final game of 2008 against Washington. We will honor this honor by honoring Great 49er Mustaches as this game draws nigh.

Roger Craig was one of the most versatile running backs the NFL has ever seen.

A perfect fit for Bill Walsh's short-passing offensive system, in 1985 Craig became the first man to gain 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 receiving in the same season....

Timecapsule: December 25, 1894 On Christmas Day, 1894, the first San Francisco Cliff House burned to the ground. As the Chronicle poetically reported the next morning, San Francisco's most historic landmark has gone up in flames. The Cliff House is a smouldering ruin, where the silent ghosts of memory hover pale and wan over the blackened embers. Ah, yes. We discussed this first incarnation of the Cliff House a few weeks ago -- its novel location at the edge of the world, its singular......

This Sunday, the current San Francisco 49ers will be honoring the 49ers of the past by wearing mustaches in their final game of 2008 against Washington. We will honor this honor by honoring Great 49er Mustaches as this game draws nigh.

When Joe Montana first came to the 49ers from Notre Dame in 1979, he brought this fanciful Fu Manchu style with him.

Of course, everything went up from there. Joe grew into the greatest quarterback the NFL has every seen, and the 49ers began their golden age of dominance throughout the 1980s....

Snapped up by Flickr photog Mike G., this is the new system that replaced the "unreliable" OS/2 system. Let the hair pulling start...now....

Airline travelers wait in the security gate line at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) We were at SFO yesterday afternoon, and we must say that it was just delightful. No lines at check-in or security, no long wait for our $5 Peet's tea, ample seating space to watch planes arrive and depart as we finished Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story, our flight to Orange County (alas) wasn't sold out, and we got two -- two! -- cans of tomato juice. It was practically......

Holy living crap, we love this so much!!

This coming Sunday, the 49ers are having a throwback uniform day in the final game of the season as Washington comes to Candlestick.

Word is that the o-linemen got it in their heads to pay tribute to Niners of the past by breaking out throwback mustaches to go with the throwback unis. The glorious idea spread, and now much of the team will be attempting mustaches for the Week 17 matchup as sign of strength of silly solidarity.

The Redskins ain't gonna stand a chance....