Mission Mission

I mean, I keep telling myself I can quit whenever I want, but I keep going back and time after time those guys melt my brain. I don’t think I can quit.

Last night, I was eating one of guest chef Ryan Farr’s homemade hot dogs, and Johnny Cash’s “When the Man Comes Around” came on behind me. It was the perfect aural-oral mashup. If you’re gonna die happy, die happy with “When the Man Comes Around” in your ears and Ryan Farr’s hot dog in your mouth.

But then, the BBBLT came out. I’m pretty sure there was something good on the stereo at that point too, but hell if I remember what it was, for the BBBLT consumed all of my sensory perceptions even as I consumed it.

Somehow I made it home safe.

More coverage:

Bunrab’s. (Thanks for the photo.)

Johnny’s.

Jesse’s.

Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone‘s National Affairs Daily, examining the question of what to do with Guantanamo detainees when Guantanamo closes, poses an interesting suggestion:

An immodest proposal: Let’s house them on Alcatraz.

Make it modern and secure. But also keep it open as a tourist attraction.

These guys are not super heroes. They’re not Houdini’s. They’re easily contained. And we should make a show of how toothless they really are.

Plus, it’d make one hell of a tourist draw.

Link. Yeah, I’ve lived in Northern California pretty much all my life and I’ve never been to Alcatraz. This would make me visit Alcatraz.

Local blogs keep saying things like, “The Mission District is gathering its forces in a fight against American Apparel,” and referring to “the movement to keep Dov Charney’s hipster wares out of the hipster hood itself.” Is the former true? Is there such a thing as the latter? Is the whole neighborhood up in arms?

Or is it that one dude claimed to represent the community and some web writers took him at his word?

(I like this coverage though. And I like the discussion here.)

Eliz and Ryan took their cardboard Barack Obama standee for a walk in the Mission today, and it looks like everybody had a lot of fun. See the whole set here: Barack Obama visits the Mission.

Previously:

826 Valencia Kids LOVE Obama

Obama and the Midwest

Obama Drinks Blue Bottle

Tonight at Elbo Room:

Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco presents:

Release party for Instant City 6 “the Disappeared.”

In a city notorious for its razor-sharp wit and cutting-edge lit, what better way to celebrate the release of Instant City 6 than with a reading and game show! Impress your friends and community.  Match your knowledge of San Francisco history and literature against your peers. Plus enjoy a selection of awesome tales from Instant City and get the chance to smooze the authors!

Doors at 7pm, game at 7:30. $10.00 admission includes a copy of Instant City 6.

Just in time for the dawn of a new sociopolitical era, Gravel & Gold came upon this colorful relic from 1966. Stop by the shop at 18th and Treat to see it in the flesh and perhaps make a purchase. Link.

Previously:

In The City We Trust

From Money Jungle Online.

Previously:

Mission Pigeon Photography

Call Them “Rock Doves” Not “Pigeons”

Reader mcas reports that tonight is our last chance to get Stumptown Coffee Roasters coffee at Four Barrel:

Dont know if its worth a post but today is last day of stumptown coffee at 4 barrel. They start serving their own roasts tomo

You can buy the lbs of their roast now.. but they are finishing off their stumptown inventory today… So as of tomo, sf will again be stumptown free.

I’m not really a coffee drinker myself, but I’m told yes it’s worth a post. Thanks, mcas!

Update: Chris K. responds, “not so!  dynamo donuts on 24th and york uses stumptown.”

Secondary update: mcas defends his original statement: “Nope, Chris K. Dynamo has gotten their Stumptown from Four Barrel’s contract… and they will also be receiving 4 Barrel as of now.”

Back on November 4th, local tumblelog Many Machines noted that the kids in the writing program at 826 Valencia had been just ecstatic about Barack Obama. See that report and subsequent discussion here.

Yesterday, the full story behind this ecstatickness appeared in The New York Times. The piece includes a slide show of portraits the kids did of the president elect, as well as some of the results of a writing assignment is which students were asked to write a letter to Senator Obama. From 8-year-old Mireya Perez’s list of the first 10 things he should do as President:

1. Make everyone read books.
2. Don’t let teachers give kids hard homework.
3. Make a law where kids only get one page of homework per week.

Haha! Link. (Thanks, Chase!)

Also, will somebody please hurry up and license the above drawing by 12-year-old Dean Lancaster and put it on a t-shirt?

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Fridays and Saturday through the end of the month, The Dark Room is home to “SF Sketchfest in the Mission,” a showcase of up-and-coming talents.

One such talent, The Birthday Boys, take the stage tonight. The above video is funny enough, but the thing that makes me think this could really be worthwhile is the following message I got last night from a comedy industry professional with every reason to be jaded and unimpressed:

Am currently at intermission for the TV Funhouse show and a group called The Birthday Boys opened. They were great (I was laughing a ton in the back – and I wouldn’t bs about comedy).

Showtime is 10:30pm. Also of note is an 8pm show featuring musical guest Uni and Her Ukelele.

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