Mission Mission

For our fellow “map ho’s,” Burrito Justice brings us excellent summary coverage of some recently unearthed S.F. Highway maps that were published by StreetsblogSF.  In fact, if you enjoy doing more than just looking at pictures, I’d highly encourage you to read the great piece on the S.F. Freeway Revolt that these maps were were published with.

MUNI Diaries brings us a pretty intense story from the 22:

…A few seconds later, these guys walked around to the front of the bus shelter where I was standing. There were three of them. Three Hispanic guys who spoke only Spanish. They were all over the place. One guy was even wandering in the street. I noticed that each of them had a bottle of tequila in their hand.

Suddenly, a black guy came out of nowhere and started speaking broken Spanish to these guys. The black guy walked in the street a bit and around the bus shelter, in plain sight of me, but out of view of the cameras located at the intersection. I’m not sure what triggered it, but one of the Spanish-speaking guys must have pissed off the black guy. This black guy was a young kid with nothing to lose. He seemed to be by himself and started talking mad shit to these guys in Spanish. It almost seemed like he was trying to egg them on into a fight. As soon as the black guy walked right in front of me, he lifted up his sweatshirt to show the fact that he had a gun in his drawers. Everyone standing in the bus shelter bolted out of the area, including myself. The other guys saw the gun, but continued talking back to the black guy. It was like the threat of the black guy having a gun and using it didn’t even phase them. These guys were obviously intoxicated.

Get the full story here.

Don’t forget to pack an umbrella:

“A record rainfall of 0.03 inches was set at San Francisco CA today. This breaks the old record of 0.02 inches set in 1998.”

(link Weather Underground)

Shitty Kitty spent an evening with mice Shotwell’s:

(Photo’s from Shotwell’s Twitter Stream)

Burnstein! over at Laughing Squid brings us news of the Tamale Lady’s birthday party at Zeitgeist this Monday at 6pm.  Cecil D. Feeder is going to be screening his “rockumentary” on the Tamale Lady, “Our Lady of Tamale,” at the event.

If you can’t make it Monday, you can watch the film on YouTube.

(link)

Muni Diaries will be hosting “Riders with Drinks” this Friday at 7:30pm at the Make-Out Room on 22nd.  I personally cannot wait to hear more surreal stories of “the Muni Humper” while getting sloppy off $2 PBR.

Looks like there is a new edition to the Mission District Sugar Rails: Xanath Ice Cream just opened on Valencia at 21st.  An iPhone picture of the menu indicates that everything they sell is organic, the prices are in-line with most other Mission Ice Creameries and their flavors are generally fruity (with the notable exception of Saffron).  Of course, the name of the place (and logo) would indicate Vanilla is the flavor to try.

(Photo Yelp.com)

An update of the rumor we posted about regarding Mission Loc@l’s new Fashion blogger:

So we’re finally coming out with it and putting the rumors to rest. Mission Loc@l is starting a new fashion feature. But she’s not an undergraduate as some have reported. It’s Mission Loc@l’s Shalwah Evans, a denizen of Brooklyn who knows more about styles, trends and asking for bargains than anyone we know. How do you do it? You just ask, she says, explaining that she ALWAYS asks for a discount. (link)

Don’t worry Mai, we still love Fashionist.

Brittney Gilbert over at Eye on Blogs stumbled across a pretty cool Emotion Map of San Francisco.

Christian Nold, the designer of the project, briefly detailed what went into making the map:

The San Francisco Emotion Map is the culmination of Christian Nold’s five-week residency and participatory art project that involved a total of 98 participants exploring San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood using the Bio Mapping device he invented. During his residency at Southern Exposure, Christian Nold worked in the organization’s Mission Street storefront gallery encouraging visitors to stop by and use the devices during the weekdays and on Saturdays when he conducted intensive workshops. The project invited the public to go for a walk using the device, which records the wearer’s physiological response to their surroundings. The results of these walks are represented on this map using colored dots and participant’s personal annotations. The San Francisco Emotion Map is a collective attempt at creating an emotional portrait of a neighborhood and envisions new tools that allow people to share and interpret their own bio data. (link)

(Credit Eye on Blogs)

Sunday, Dolores Park—Onlookers, drunk off the sweet, sweet nectar of Tecate and Charles Shaw, anxiously await for a juggler to slip up and slice off his arm.