Mission Mission

What does this signify?

Photo by Ellen L. Shaylor.

Previously:

Cone in a Hole

The Shoe Business is Hokum

Gravel & Gold these days is doing some kind of bean lunch every Wednesday with special guest chefs and fancy desserts. Bring your own bowl. Complete details here.

berlin’, my favorite blog about Berlin, took a turn around a suburban supermarket and found a number of trippy things, chief among them this jar o’ hot dogs:

The folks at Meica have expropriated a classic American rite of passage: the one in which boys wrench open their first jar of hot dog, devour the contents and chug the brine.

At the Soopermarkt

And this location has its own beer. I’ll never have to visit the Lower Haight ever again. Grub Street has the scoop.

(Thanks, Brittney!)

Hell’s Angels honcho and original badass Sonny Barger did some modeling for local denim purveyor Self Edge recently, and Cool Hunting was lucky enough to get Self Edge honcho Kiya Babzani to write about the experience. Pics and prose here.

Previously:

Obsessed With Denim

Lou Reed, Denim Model

From the Dolores Park Pool come these shots by photographer Jason Rosete of athlete Jason Clary tearing the place UP. Badass! (Click either to visit photo page.)

This week on I Heart Street Art, I pretend I commute to the city from Berkeley and say mean things about the Transbay Terminal. Oh and nice things about graffiti, which as we all know is a crime:

I Heart Street Art: Transbay Terminal Tag

kkr ! recommends taking a look at the hottest thing on Tumblr and Flickr today, a hateful map stereotyping the various folks that like to hang out in Dolores Park. See here for the rest of the bile.

whatevsaboutit points us to this golden housing opportunity:

$680 hoarders haven (mission district)

Hello, I am seeking a nice room mate to share my 2 bedroom home.

You won’t have to pay utilities or do any chores so it’s perfect for a young person or a student.

But I cannot have anybody touching or moving my stuff because it would set off a chain reaction of emotions and feelings towards you and towards my things. Hoarding is not a mental illness, it is something environmentally responsible because I don’t like to throw anything away. But the San Francisco Department of public health said my living conditions were unsafe and came in and forcibly removed my things I have been collecting for over 40 years. It traumatized me and I have been rebuilding my collection ever since.

If you are a hoarded this would be a great place because someday, it would be so full of things that we would have to sleep outside. My friend did that in LA but here it might be too cold and the city is very punitive against hoarders and homeless people. Isn’t that ironic? They don’t like homeless people, but they don’t like people with homes either.

Please contact me by email as I am unable to get to the phone right now. I have a phone but it only rings. Once in a while I can get to it but it’s so far away and very hard to get to. If you had a cell phone that would be better.

Link.

Head to 21st at Valencia for all your sidewalk defecation needs.

(Thanks Drew?)