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• Ask SFist -- Subprime?

  In our inbox this week, we received this profanity-laced inquiry. Ahem: I know I'm not the only one, so what the fuck does "subprime" mean anyway? Still confused. No, potty-mouthed reader, you are not alone. Believe us. To find out more, we asked one of SFist's closet pals. He's one of those ivy-league kids who now works in the banking industry, performing one of those insanely smart kind of jobs that continues to baffle us.

• SFist Reviews: Queens Of The Stone Age

  Days late and dollars short, it's your SFist recap of the Queens Of The Stone Age gig last December 21 at The Warfield. Our photos were delayed by Technology. SFist.com: "Putting the 'teh' back in Tehknology." Q.) What are theees "Queens Of The Stone Age?" A.) That'd be a band that makes hip-shakin' heavy rock 'n roll for adults. On the second night of their sold-out stand at The Warfield.

• SFist Staff's 2007 Music Picks

  If you have ever wondered what the SFist staff is listening to, wonder no more. In no particular order, we are listing each staffer's favorite album and song from 2007. We think you'll be surprised at our wide variety of music affections. Here's the list: Christopher Rogers: Song of the Year: ARTIST: LCD Soundsystem SONG: North American Scum ALBUM: Sound Of Silver Album of the Year: ARTIST.

• SFist Finds: Just Let it In

  Lady K has been busy with the finds lately! "You couldn't find a better love than ours if you would just let it in." Sounds like something we might've said to one jerk or another back in the day. Found in the Mission. You could fix this so easily. F'ing wake up. I can't believe youre willing to f this up. All I want is you. You shouldn't s*t all over the people who love you the most. Just dig yourself out of your hole and make a f'ing effort.

• SFist Blotter

  San Francisco started the year with a bang. Literally. · 1/1: The title of First Murder of 2008 was snatched up just a few hours after midnight. An unidentified man was shot to death on the 300 block of 9th Street in SOMA yesterday morning at around 4:50 a.m. No suspects, no arrests. · 1/1: Two non-fatal stabbings occurred at 2 a.m in Washington Square Park. No word yet at to whether or not a pizza parlor is to blame.

• SFist Tonight

  · Diva (1981): Based off of Daniel Odier's novel of the same name, this fun and stylish French thriller revolves around a postal worker's obsession with an opera star. After he makes a bootleg tape of one of her performances - tsk, tsk - he also unwittingly records a crime. And then? Chaos ensues. Starts at 8:30 p.m. at the Roxie. · Francisco Aguabella: Dizzy Gillespie described this Latin music legend as "the John Coltrane of the Conga Drums.

• So So Many White White Tigers

  SFist Jim reports that he went to the reopening of the San Francisco Zoo today, where he snapped the picture, above, of the tributes being placed at the zoo's tiger statue, and which he described as "a big bust." When we first read SFist Jim's email, we thought he was talking about the tiger statue (we were like, "they made a bust of Tatiana? So fast!"), but no, he meant the crowds, which were sparse to the point where there was more media there than zoo visitors.

• SFist Tonight

  · Michael Pollan: Come hear this foodie sensation talk about his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, in which he suggests that you should not "eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." (Impossible. Also, yes, Michael Leaverton, we DO need to know the exercise logs of the fowl we plan on eating.) Catch him tonight in conversation with restaurant critic.

• Grote Kunst Voor Kleine Mensen: Chocolade haas

  Speaking of animal cruelty, the third chocolate bunny murder almost brought us to tears. Of laughter, sorrow, or both we're still not sure. This film, above, is described as "an episode from the preschool art project 'Big Art For Little People', made by Lernert Engelberts en Sander Plug. The series [was] produced by Cut-n-Paste for KRO Youth, in association with Dutch Culture Fund." Those poor Dutch preschoolers.

• The Offies 2007 Tickle, Delight

  If you have a free second - provided you have finished reading each SFist story and clicking on every one of our advertisers, of course - checkout the Guardian's "Offies" of 2007 - their Off-Guard Awards for the "dumbest, lamest, most pitiful, and most bizarre moments of a year that's finally, finally over." A couple of them that made us chortle: WHEN A SIMPLE "CUNT" OR "PUSSY" JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH A Florida production of The Vagina Monologues sought to avoid controversy by changing its name to The Hoohaa Monologues.