Mission Mission

From New to the Bay, a chronicle of one recent Mission transplant’s efforts to adjust to life (and cycling) SF:

I’m a New York girl. I’m a little high-strung. The other day, flying down Mission, someone started to open their car door and I screamed a string of obscenities that would hardly be out of the ordinary in New York. This is not quite part of the San Francisco culture. I’m trying to adapt. I’m hoping that I become less high-strung as the days go on.

Link. Is that right? Screamed strings of obscenities are out of the ordinary on Mission Street?

Tonight at 5:30pm:

The League of Young/Pissed Off Voters is hosting a debate between the candidates for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in District 9 (the Mission and Bernal). There’s a whole bunch of candidates, but as we all saw from the presidential primaries, it’s hard to have a substantive debate with a large number of candidates. So we’ve reviewed them all, and we’re only inviting the three strongest candidates:
- Eric Quezada
- Mark Sanchez
- David Campos

For a more complete list of candidates, see here. Asked to describe how they decided on this particular trio, the League wrote back:

The League’s steering committee decided that Campos, Quezada, and Sanchez were the strongest candidates based on (1) their experience, (2) their positions on the issues, and (3) the strength of their campaigns.

1. Experience: They all have strong resumes that make us confident that they’re ready for the job.
2. Issues: We feel that they share our views on the most important issues, including:
- Addressing the root causes of the crisis of violence in the Mission (such as lack of jobs, education and community), and reforming the SFPD.
- Maximizing affordable housing (particularly in the new Eastern Neighborhood Plan) to preserve San Francisco’s character.
- Making San Francisco a national leader in the fight against global warming by implementing Community Choice Aggregation and passing Prop H.
3. Strength of campaign: We’ve seen that all three are working hard and that they have demonstrated broad support in the community.

Some of the other candidates are interesting, but when considering the combination of experience, philosophy, and strength of campaign, we decided that Campos, Quezada, and Sanchez are head and shoulders above the rest.

The debate takes place at the Pirate Cat Radio studio and cafe at 21st and Florida. The public is invited to watch in person, or listen in via 87.9 FM or the Pirate Cat website. And it’s over by 7pm, so you can go see Drooker.

Tonight at Modern Times, Erik Drooker appears to promote a new book of “postcards”:

Disguised as a book of innocent postcards, Slingshot is a dangerous collection of Eric Drooker’s most notorious posters. Plastered on brick walls from New York to Berlin, tattooed on bodies from Kansas to Mexico City, Drooker’s graphics continue to infiltrate and inflame the body politic.

Show starts at 7pm. Drooker is always a riot. (via funcheapSF)

Here’s hoping this one’s in the book…

Previously on Mission Mission:

Save Rent Control Poster By Eric Drooker

Looks like the party was a blast. Over at Beer & Nosh, Jesse’s got a photo album chronicling the whole thing. See it here. (He’s also published some nice little write-ups about Dynamo Donuts and the new Limon Rotisserie.) Thanks, Jesse!

Also, Britta from Jeweled Platypus wrote in to recommend Jesse’s photos on Flickr, as well as this Flickr search for a bajillion more pics of “the star of the show.” Thanks, Britta!

A Mission Mission reader by the name of Concerned, in the comments section of a recent post about Mayor Newsom’s response to all the violence, says:

And why wouldn’t Hayward and Oakland thugs come to San Francisco and push around the local pussies? It is city policy to have an authenticity-maximizing, “Stuff White People Like” level of picturesque squalor. The complaints of the politicians (and “progressives”) who go out of their way to ensure this state of affairs are what the word “chutzpah” was intended to describe before it got adopted by baptists. What’s the worst that could happen to these guys anyway? This is a place where even dogs don’t respect their owners — “I feel like when you come to San Francisco and shoot up and leave syringes in planters, and have sex with $6 crackwhores in our beloved SROs, and pull guns on people, that you are not respecting me.” No shit, San Francisco is a senile heiress who writes the gardener thousand dollar checks twice a month, and also to his girlfriend. The likeliest response to street shitting is that Daly or some other self-styled “San Franciscan” will require cops to carry toilet paper (and in committee they will stipulate that the toilet paper should be hypoallergenic) for the needy bums. I was once in a New Mexico truck stop and gave some scraps to a local hobo for his dog, and when he asked where I was from I said San Francisco, and he said, Man! you guys have some fucking bums out there! This is what we have come to — our streets offend the sensibility of drifters. And all we have to do is stop sponsoring the fucking offensiveness, decline to pay for the SRO’s and fleabag deathtraps, maybe even try to cite the most appalling nuisances and let them evolve into student housing, or God Forfend, web-programmer housing (as opposed to Richmond drug dealer and pimp housing). That is what would happen naturally if the city stopped intervening on behalf of people who couldn’t give a fuck about it.

Link. Think we can get a “People Before Picturesque Squalor” measure on the ballot? Thanks, Concerned!

Flickr user Notorious S.I.G. took some great shots at tonight’s peace march. See them all here. Participants, was the march a success?

Update: More pics here, from Jesse. Thanks, Jesse!

From CBS 5:

“All of the law enforcement in the world is not going to create a peaceful environment,” said Mayor Newsom. “I don’t want to get into the details of these investigations, but you got folks from all over the Bay Area who happen to be in San Francisco doing things that they shouldn’t be doing.”

Link.

Brock from SFist just pointed us to this breaking news at CBS 5:

A candlelight peace march is being held Sunday evening in San Francisco’s Mission District following a wave of violence that has alarmed residents and prompted increased police presence. 

Participants plan to gather at 6:30 p.m. at 24th Street and Treat Avenue. 

Full details here. Thanks, Brock!

Who’s with him? Link.

The Mailbox Tees Blog is a primo showcase of weird little design oddities, and, we think you’ll agree, this Salt-N-Pepa salt and pepper shaker set is one of their best finds yet. Link.