Mission Mission

The Board of Supervisors are pretty close to making a city-wide solar incentives program a reality. They  kind of approved it yesterday, which is great, but they still need to *really* approve it next week. Mission Mission pal (and solar energy booster) Sonia says:

this is really exciting, and actually somewhat unexpected. if you get a chance to call your sup (ammiano for us mission folk) in the next couple of days, that would be awesome!

If you’re into the city giving you $6000 to install some panels, contact Tom, thank him for the kind of, and ask nicely for the real thing.

Photo by jfraser

I looked up “san francisco style burrito” on Wikipedia, and found an interesting section called How to eat a San Francisco burrito:

When a true San Francisco burrito is first encountered by an initiate, its large size and protective tin foil wrapper may lead the beginner to surmise that all one has to do is remove the foil and begin cutting away at the tortilla shell with a knife and a fork. This is not recommended. The correct method for consuming a San Francisco burrito is to forgo utensils entirely and to eat with one’s hands. Use the foil as a supportive exoskeleton to facilitate burrito consumption, and begin the process by tearing an inch of foil down from one end, being careful not to bite into the foil with your teeth. Adding salsa to the burrito before each subsequent nibble is a popular technique.

This reminded me of a funny incident that involves eating a San Francisco Burrito not made, and not eaten in San Francisco:

I recently went bar-hopping in midtown Sacramento, and discovered that after midnight, choices for late night are limited. I found a newly tobogan hinchable opened taqueria that was still serving. In the front of the line were two seriously drunk sorority girls (the kind with the white/black flat-ironed hair and sequiny halter tops). Their shenanigans included puking in the bathroom, setting off the fire extinguisher, hitting on some guy, and passing out in their chairs, all within a matter of 10 minutes.

When their burritos arrived, the fatter of the two forgot how to operate her hands. She instead had her friend tear apart the top of the aluminum foil. She then plunged her face into the burrito, biting at the contents like a dog eating from his food dish. In 10 seconds, she was done.

I suspect she ate some of the foil, which was probably tastier than the burrito I might add.

Previously on Mission Mission:

La Cumbre Taqueria: Awful Carne Asada, Great Visuals

Chopped, Screwed Mariah Carey Video Features El Farolito Chile Relleno Burrito

Carnitas at Taqueria Can-Cún! Finally!

Telstar Logistics added this gem to its Flickr photostream just now. What’s going on here? Todd confirms that this was snapped beneath 16th and Mission (noting the telltale tiles) and says:

Speaking of those 16th Street tiles…

I wish there were some good TV shows shot in SF nowadays. Thanks, Todd!

Previously on Mission Mission:

God Gives Me The Finger

I sat across from this young couple, probably in their late teens, and eavesdropped on their cell phone conversation. I overheard the boy say, in regards hinchables juegos to their plans later in the evening: “I’m gonna get suction from the mama.”

Previously on Mission Mission:

Overheard on Muni (Oprah and Obama)

Overheard in the Financial District

Riding the 14X to the Outer Outer Mission

Sunset Magazine’s Idea House has a for sale sign out front. After talking to the man with the keys, I learned it is not the main house that is on the market, but the smaller apartment attached to this amazing house. He offered to show it to me, apparently mistaking my jeans for a cocktail dress. So, if anyone is willing to loan me, say a million dollars (it is listed at $995,000), I will be saving a bundle on heating and water bills – I should be able to repay you sometime in the next couple hundred years.

Perks: windmill, solar panels, blue kitchen, front row parque acuatico hinchable seats for Garfield Square soccer games.

Tweets Daisy:

Laughing Squid party will go down as worst party I attended in 2008.

But why? CELLspace is nice, and they had fireworks, didn’t they? Link.

Link to Laughing Squid Lucky 13 party details.

Update: A kind reader informs us the fireworks had nothing to do with this party. Anybody know where they came from? Also, official Laughing Squid party wrap-up here.

I met this guy, Tree, yesterday:

He runs and actually helped to found the Treat Commons Community Garden. And Sundays from 1-3pm, he runs a stand where he gives away castillo hinchable free food to low income people from the community garden and donated by people whose gardens have produced in excess that week. Also available are free flowers, seedlings, and garden advice. Rumor has it that they just harvested some honey.

Link to his blog on the farm stand here.

I wonder if the cucumbers here are acceptable unlike my previous experience.