Mission Mission

Our new favorite sandwich blog, breadxbread, reports a picklenapping:

whoever stole mr. pickle, you sicken me. i hope when the police finally corner you and lock you away for the rest of your miserable life, that your every waking moment is haunted by the look of innocent joy on mr. pickle’s face. a look that you have stolen from all of us.

Link.

Photo by aodland.

Update: Alex wrote in just as we were hitting publish on this thing: “I think you will agree with me that this is the worst thing that has happened in the history of humanity. right now there are two signs up in the window of mr. pickle’s, one says ‘did you see who took mr. pickle?’ and the other reads ‘mama pickle wants her mr. pickle back’ which smashes my heart into a million unfixable pieces.” Thanks, Alex.

Previously:

Who Stole Weezer?

Best Sandwich in the Mission

Fashionist thinks so, but I’m not so sure. Sure it’s nice to be unencumbered while cycling, but you also have to look good, and sometimes that means being encumbered. Link.

Photo by eviloars.

Previously:

No More Jangly Spanish Jesus Songs

I wish I was in a bike gang big enough to warrant a pile of bikes locked four bikes deep daisy chain-style to a dirty garbage can on South Van Ness.

Ashleigh Cole just broke a way hotter story than anything coming out of SXSW:

I’m reporting live from Austin! Have I found forlorn candy corn’s cousin, happy shackie?

Link.

Previously:

Forlorn Candy Corn Porn

Wow, what a trip. I’ve never actually talked to Anthony before, so it’s fun to hear him talk about his grand experiment. The reporter notes that he’s a man “of painfully few words.”

Link.

Programming note: Mission Street Food is on hiatus this Saturday, but will return to its usual schedule next week.

From Captain Stephen Tacchini’s Mission Station Newsletter:

Over the past few weeks, the SF Chronicle, Chronicle Watch section has included stories about graffiti in the area of 16th and Dolores Streets. The last article indicated the problems have been abated due to painting the affected area with a color which will camouflage any new tagging.  I would like to add to the Chronicle story by stating police officers from Mission Station have been actively monitoring and arresting persons in and around the area of Dolores between 19th and 16th Streets for committing the crime of graffiti.  In the past couple of weeks nine individuals have been arrested and eight others detained for suspicion of being involved in acts of graffiti.  I am inclined to believe that the arrests and detentions have also had an impact on the incidence of graffiti in that area of the Mission District.

The Chronicle Watch piece seems to have disappeared but Google cached it here, and there’s a screenshot after the jump:

Update: SF Gate’s Max Garrone found us a working link. Thanks, Max!

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The driver had kind of a lead foot. Click to enlarge.

Last summer I was walking by Lost Weekend Video and saw a sign in the window that read “Herzog/Kinski T-shirts!!!” I ran right in only to find that there was nothing left but women’s small. Epic bummer.

Luckily, they did a second run a couple months ago, and I’m now a proud owner of the above Maria Forde masterpiece.

Raised on a farm in Iowa, Maria made her way to San Francisco and sampled several other neighborhoods before settling in the Mission. Among other things, she likes the warmth, the sun, Lost Weekend, Aquarius and the library.

The drawing-portraits-of-movie-directors-for-video-stores thing started back in Iowa City, but has blossomed right here, thanks initially to a friend who worked at Lost Weekend. Maria produced a series of pins for the store, and found that her cinematic tastes meshed well with those of proprietor Adam Pfahler, who then asked her to do an official shirt.

She’s now done a Polanski, a Peckinpah, and the Herzog.

“I liked the idea of connecting to people who shared my love of movies, in a neutral unpretentious place,” Maria says, “And also making something that I care about art wise but turning it into something that someone can afford to have.” And that’s the thing. I rarely go to art galleries and I never go to video stores. But this special piece of art compelled me in.

I bought one for me, I bought one for a friend, and we’re both enjoying them thoroughly. Then I looked Maria up on the internet, and got in touch. “Those folks at Lost Weekend are so genuine and thoughtful and just… good people,” she told me, “Everyone should go there and get movies.” And now I’m seriously considering eschewing Netflix and Hulu the next time I feel like a little cinema.

Tonight, Maria debuts new work at another neighborhood institution, Needles & Pens. Maria asked 10 of her friends to give her some advice and then she drew them. The result is an exhibition called Advice Portraits. Also, as part of her effort to better understand life, she spent some time last month with her grandmother and her neighbors at their retirement home. She found that they knew a little something about life. Longview, the resulting zine will be for sale.

Shirt photo courtesy of awww damn.

Natalie just sent us a secret message:

magic curry kart again, Friday night same place, 8:30 till 11, byob

Update: Magic Curry Kart is on Twitter, right here.

Previously:

Brand-New Mission Hotspot: Magic Curry Kart