If you or someone you know is pregnant, you may already know that to glide or not to glide is one of the many baby-preparation decisions a mom-to-be will have to make. While often very comfortable, glider chairs are rarely appealing to non-pregnant folk. As if beamed from a slightly askew, Star Trek-designed parallel country-home universe, gliders generally look like granny's rocking chair: wood frame, upholstered cushions attached, and genetically-altered silently-swaying mechanism and platform......

Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who made up the character of JT LeRoy, and then got her sister in law to dress up (in shades and a blond wig) as the gay, male, former teen hustler when his purported "memoir" hit the big time. Albert was later sued......

We headed back to the Roxie this week for a little sci-fi at the Indiefest Another Hole in the Head festival, courtesy of director Richard Schenkman and writer Jerome Bixby, who’s known also for the Twilight Zone and Star Trek. We can’t say much without spoiling this one for you, but we can tell you that it was not what we’d expected. Man from Earth is a sort of coming out for Jonathan Oldman,......

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a culinary school graduate that writes about food and television. What's not to love? She's best known for her scathing, funny, and exhaustive coverage of several shows over at Television Without Pity, where she uses the nom du plum of Keckler--we'll be the first to admit (as we have before): her coverage of Top Chef is second to none. She's also a regular at where we first met her), and has her very own food-centric bloggie, The Grub Report. Check out our recent discussion for details on an a cup of salsa's epic journey, a bit on being a cheese archivist, the ressurection of our favorite word from Top Chef Season Two ("craveable"), and some insight into the challenges in writing loads and loads about television at the very popular TWOP. ...

Somebody out there took Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and mashed it up with scenes from the old "Star Trek" (otherwise known as the Only "Star Trek") and came up with this psychadelic video. Remember, folks, as this video shows, just say no to drugs.......

It was announced today that Art Shell would not return as the Raiders head coach in 2007. Fired? Resigned? Stepped down? Stripped of his title? Whatever, it was Al's decision....

Just in time for the kiddies as they go back to school, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (or the Sausalito Aquarium for you Trekkies out there and yes, that's our second Star Trek IV reference this week), unveiled their latest catch, a real live Great White Shark. The Shark is 104 pounds and 5 feet 8 inches long and is on the younger side of life. It was caught somewhere off the Santa Monica Bay and was introduced to the Aquarium’s "Outer Bay" exhibit where it roams freely and wonders where all the yummy surfers went. ...

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

It's vaguely embarrassing to have to admit to you that there was definitely a general buzz of excitement at SFist HQ when SFist Jon found out that counterPULSE Theater was staging a live-action version of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode, "Once More With Feeling." Set for performances this weekend and next, tickets sold out pretty much immediately and geeks of all stripes (musical theater geeks, comic book geeks, Star Trek geeks, Joss Whedon geeks, and your everyday run of the mill geeks) began lovingly sheathing their precious original tickets in durable plastic covers to preserve forever. Well, where geeks go, lawyers are soon to follow -- last week, counterPULSE got an angry letter from Fox TV's attorneys, demanding that they cancel all the shows or face a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit. Feeling as if they had no choice, counterPULSE has now cancelled all the Buffy shows (which they are now referring to as "the Halloween shows," or the "Uffy" shows). Fox is taking the position that it alone, and not some namby-pamby San Francisco theater group, has the right to profit from Buffy-related activities. counterPULSE has one last stake left in its back pocket, though -- Joss Whedon himself has apparently told Fox that he has no objection to the staging of the show, and counterPULSE has sent this along to Fox for consideration. Given the number of people whose rights would need to be cleared by tomorrow, though, we're not optimistic that this Buffy's going to be able save the universe this time. (On the bright side, collectors, you won't actually have to remove the ticket from the protective plastic sleeve you placed it in, and it won't be ripped at the door!) Picture of the Buffy musical soundtrack. Dear Fox: We believe the use of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER-related trademarks and copyrights in the context of this informational newspost constitutes permissible fair use. Please contact us if you have any questions. ...

At the SFIFF’s super-special ritzy glamorous hoi-palloi Brad-Bird-Meet-And-Greet last week, Brad was surrounded by such a large gaggle of pleased society-types, you could’ve been forgiven for not realizing he was there at all. In fact, only a small number of the attendees seemed aware of him at all as they sipped wines, nibbled appetizers (the shrimp, it seemed, were popular), and enjoyed the dimly lit, and therefore swank, atmosphere of North Beach’s Bubble Lounge.......

C'mon, Star Trek 4 is all about cops in SF! Yesterday's bomb scare at City Hall was traced to a kook who went up to the security desk on the Van Ness side around 3:30 p.m., put his cell phone down, and said, "I put a bomb in here." After evacuating the building, the po-po shot a water cannon at the phone and determined it was explosives-free. SFist Jackson has an airtight alibi (item 4, around 1:00:00. Thanks for sticking up for the bloggers!) Yet more wacky weed news! Firefighters in El Cerrito that were inspecting a house that had been flooded by a water main break last Friday morning "noticed grow lights, hydroponic equipment and the strong smell of marijuana." Suspicious, they called the cops, who found about 100 plants and a pound of processed pot, and promptly booked the residents. Bummer to get busted at 3 in the morning while your house is flooding. "....No, man! I gotta get the Galactic bootlegs out of the basement!" And South Asian families in the Valley are concerned that they're being targeted by thieves who know that they tend to have expensive gold jewelry in their homes. Fourteen families have been robbed on weekends since December. This reminds us of that spate of burglaries in the Orange County Asian-American community (.pdf), where they figured out the burglars were targeting houses where there were a lot of shoes outside the front door. ...

While last week was a veritable snooze in terms of new DVD releases, this week is a DVD potpourri. So much so that it's hard to cover them all. Suffice it to say, any week that features Shrek, Jeff Spicoli, Ali G., Hello Kitty, and James T. Kirk is a pretty good week. And if that's not good enough, this week also features DVD releases of the Three's Company- the Third Season and Too Close......

And now, we're down to the final propositions. And frankly, we're a bit relieved. We were out to dinner with someone and when they mentioned some random proposition, we corrected them for getting the proposition wrong like some Star Trek geek upset at a reference to Trouble With Tribbles being a Season 1 episode when everyone knows it's Season 2. But we digress. In yesterday's edition of Proposition It, we took a look at a......