there is a twee store for european magazines and cigarettes – it’s called fog city news – on market. for a twee store, it is excellent. folks are very nice.

then there’s Cafe de la Presse on Grant st.

These days, between the two, the cigarette and foreign magazine market is pretty much sown up.

oh, an the spanish storefront church?
That was NOT a jews for jesus organization. Please! Get some education on Spanish evangelical churches before you spout off.

the plumbing store is WEAK.

and yes, Valencia street used to be very shabby. BART construction destroyed it as a business district, and it took about 25 years to get going again.

it’s not valencia st. per se that offends people, it’s the obnoxious white carpetbaggers who use words like “hood” and can’t extend their little paranoid white bubble beyond people exactly like themselves that’s rude.

if we’re poking fun at the twee nature of valencia street (it also has santoro’s), well, that’s the way of the world. it’s a goofy place, and taxidermy mice & beekeeper emporiums are fucking goofy.

it’s ALL creative & fun, and everyone here LOVES the mission. but if ya can’t have any fun with it…if it all becomes so SERIOUS (like the whole AA shenanigan did), well, that aint the girafa loving mission i know.

i’ll say it again: i hope the bee store, and any others that open in the hood, whether twee or not, make a bajillion dollars.

that said, there’s always room for increased twee. a few of these actually sound OK to me…

the cute hat shop moved, and no twee street is complete without a cute hat shop.

twee-wise, i think we could also use a store that sells really expensive kid clothing. maybe themed. like…victorian era kid clothing. or depression era / little rascals type. (they could pay the rent on che t-shirts sold to the b&t crowd on saturdays)

there was a woman who was vocal in the whole AA shenanigan that wanted to open a place that exhibits and sells antique sex toys. which also implies “used” sex toys, but whatever. (not sure how they’d pay the rent, but you know they’d only be open 6 or 10 hours a week anyways).

how about a steam-punk boutique / tea shop / performance space? (corporate events)

an exact-replica apothecary out of sherlock holmes? (actually, this could make money…plenty of current products to sell)

same concept, but 1940′s woolworth counter? 1950′s malt shoppe? (brunch crowds)

a store specializing in magazines & cigarettes from europe? (probably they’d have to sell illegal substances to make money)

chocolate store. (chocolate)

the inevitable “world market” store selling replica buddhas and “hecho a mano” textile from guatemala. (i hope that one never opens).

there’s a million ways. let’s go, hipster entrepreneurs! 26 vacant spots left….

True story: I broke every bone in my left hand while silk screening some t-shirts with these totally rad graphics of bird skeletons playing Sega Genesis this weekend (check out my Esty plz you guys). I couldn’t move any of my fingers and there was blood everywhere, just everywhere, but I refused to go to a hospital that wasn’t within the borders of Castro, 16th, 18th, and Valencia. Just when I thought I’d have to lose my hand in order to keep the hood authentic and small town, I remembered Mission Pet Hospital‎ at 18th and Valencia. Long story short, I got my hand patched up AND a bottle full of cat tranquilizers. Best hood ever yall.