Mission Mission

Rick Abruzzo got in touch to tell me about some upcoming free pancake thing at El Rio, and then he’s all oh and by the way, “ANTHONY BOURDAIN WILL BE AT PCR STUDIO EITHER 21ST OR 22ND END OF MARCH* TO START A SHOOT FOR AN SF NO RESERVATIONS” (double emphasis added).

Oh my god, right? Who doesn’t watch Tony’s show the whole time wishing he’d come do an episode about super burritos and chicharrones and bacon-wrapped hotdogs and perhaps certain other local street-food outlets?

Rick continues, “I know the story arc is his on-going war with vegans. Wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to torch Herbivore, slander Millennium or bitch about the price of Greens.”

Uhh, what about Cafe Platitude? I’d love to see Tony try to order an I Am Jack’s Raging Bile Duct.

And for that matter, I’d love to see Tony have a picnic in Dolores Park with Meave.

In any case, he’ll for sure drop by Pirate Cat for an “early morning appearance to try [their] Bacon Maple Latte and bitch about vegans on the air.”

Rick, thanks for the tip, and PLEASE steer Tony toward everything great (and great to vilify) about the Mission.

Tony’s Travel Channel blog is here.

Photo of Melanie Dunea‘s photo by Dulamae.

*UPDATE: Source says date range may have been too specific.

Poetry from the delicate flower that is Valencia Street:

Paxton’s Gate – w4m – 21 (mission district)

I was seriously considering buying a fox tail.
You were behind the counter, occupied with a pile of rocks.

My friend and I were admiring the collection of beetles when you asked if I had gotten my shirt at Thrift Town. I said that I had and you told me that you had almost bought it and that I looked good in it. I thanked you and walked awkwardly away to fiddle with the ostrich eggs while you disappeared into the back room…

My friend and I lingered for a bit near the venus fly traps hoping you’d reappear, but you never did.

Let’s go thrifting, handsome.

Link.

Related:

Will Craigslist Buy The Chronicle? at SF Appeal.

Paxton Gate official website.

There’s a great discussion going on in the comments section of Tuesday night’s Inner Mission Beer Parlor Is No More post.

On the bar’s new website, they list their phone number as “Mission 8-4104″ (Mission meaning “64″ or “MI”). This led to some discussion about the old days, and then Guero and Johnny0 got into talking about the once-prevalent Mission accent, which apparently was kind of Brooklynish.

Read all about it.

Back behind Best Buy. Click to enlarge.

Want a permanent public park out front of Ritual? Cast your vote tonight!

Mission Streetscapes Plan.

[via rachel ann yes]

Tonight the Bay Area Video Coalition hosts a reception for a new exhibit called 5 Blocks, for which photographers were asked to submit works taken within five blocks of their home, school or workplace.

On display will be pieces by Plug1 and Plug2 of WHATIMSEEING dot com.

Link.

Just received an interesting press release. The owners of beloved neighborhood watering hole Inner Mission Beer Parlor have decided to get more into the whole brevity thing. From the official statement:

The bar underwent many transformations in the 80’s and 90’s – El Trobol, Shotwell 59, and Thieves Tavern – before transforming into Inner Mission Beer Parlor, named by current owners David Hall and Tom Madonna, in 2006. “Very much the place we wanted to own, but the name Inner Mission Beer Parlor was a mouthful,” said Mr. Madonna. “We wanted to honor the history of the place but felt like four words in our name was three too many, therefore a name change was in order.”

Shotwell’s opens April 1st.

Previously:

Shotwell Stroll

Shotwell Bummer

Among many other hot deals, you can get Where to Invade Next by Stephen Elliott or Wholphin No. 5 starring Zooey Deschanel for just $5 each! Link. (Thanks, David!)

If Suriya Thai is really gone, as was reported today, it is another in a long line of now-kaput neighborhood restaurants I always meant to go to but never did. This one looked tried and true, like it’d been there forever and was there to stay. So I kept putting it off.

Whoops.

Photo by mybloodyself.

Bender’s has this arcade game called Bags in which you’re a competitive beanbag tosser and you get six innings in which to try to get your bags in the hole. You operate your onscreen self using a trackball.

Bags!