Mission Mission

Has anyone ever done this? What does it take, an automobile? A tractor? Or could a couple of neighborhood muscleheads get ‘er done if bored enough?

And does the city have to dispatch a backhoe to steady ‘er up again? Hopefully Mission and Highland (publisher of this here photo) will follow up toot sweet.

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Mailbox Tipping

Original Trash Tipping

In the comments section of our post about Dolores Park flunking playground school, reader Laurie says:

To be fair, A-grade Mission Playground, an excellent place that we adore, can be rough around the edges. In the last week there’s been parents picking up broken glass from the asphalt walkway within the fenced-in children’s playground. And within the fenced-in Valencia Street hardscape, small kids played with broken bottles, watching them shatter to smithereens.

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So, kids will be kids? Colorful neighborhoods will be colorful neighborhoods?

Infographic by Mission Local.

Anybody need a rad tattoo such as this? Perhaps artist Jen Oaks can help you out.

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What Do You Wear When You Take Out The Recycling?

There’s no funner blog post to read than a Sleepover blog post (because they are a revolutionary design firm intent on making the experience of reading things on the internet less plain and more COMPLETELY JOYOUS).

In today’s post, we learn how to get our own portraits drawn in Tag Savage’s signature Sleepover style (pictured). Even if you’re not interested in getting a portrait drawn, it’s a great read. Read it!

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Tag Savage’s New Mission Mission Logo

Tag Savage Reviews Rosamunde

Unload one or the other on Craigslist!

(Thanks, Iron D!)

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Craigslist Vending Machine

Craigslist in Your Pants

With 22 days left, Mission Street Food hit their $10,000 investment goal. Looks like their full-time charitable restaurant is going to become a reality! Congrats to Anthony Myint.

The $10,00 goes to their initial equipment purchases, but they could still use more support and you can still donate through kickstarter. Your donation goes towards a gift certificate at the restaurant when it opens.

Previously:

Mission Street Food: ‘Oh Okay, We’ll Take Donations’

Mission Street Food Going Full Time, Seeking Investors

Our boy Carlos Reyes had been kind of absent from the internet for a while, but he’s back in full force, with pictures like this and poetry like that and philosophizing like BLAM. Do check in.

In the above video clip, extreme sportsman Travis Pastrana backflips a big wheel over a megaramp. How come nobody did that last week?

[via kottke]

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Bring Your Own Bring Your Own Big Wheel Video

Benjamin and Peter Bratt are on right now.

Opens April 16th at the Metreon. Ahh, the irony that we can’t watch it in the Mission.

Everybody loves parades.  The Rose Parade, Dykes on Bikes; hell, Disneyland has a parade every single day.  And street festivals are all about revolution, taking back the pavement from automobiles and the insidious forces that promote their ubiquitous role in society.  Predictably then, the Cesar Chavez Parade and Festival was an obvious hit, marrying both concepts into a union that even the Mormons would have a difficult time de-legitimizing.

This fellow was particularly enthused to be part of the action.  Since they apparently wouldn’t let him be part of the lo rider escort team, rolling with the mobile mariachi unit was the next logical choice.  Oh, but you don’t have to litter, guys!

The unions also got to strut their stuff, which was probably the whole point when this celebration was initially conceived.  It was educational, too, since I previously had no idea that there was in fact a linoleum union.

As expected, the postal union continued their stagnant march ahead, blissfully unaware that the Post Office will probably be bankrupt in two years, having chosen to subsidize environment-wrecking mass catalog distribution and junk mail companies by resorting to steadily increasing the cost of postage for you and me to send simple letters, rather than attempting to creatively integrate the internet age into operations.

It’s unfortunate that it costs 44 cents for us to send a simple one-page letter in the mail, but Ikea (or pick whatever corporation you want) gets to clog your box with massive tomes that you will probably just forward directly to the recycling bin, and they only have to pay a mere penny or two to send each one.  Trees get chopped to supply all the paper, much of which often finds its final resting place in landfills.  All the while the USPS keeps hemorrhaging money without knowing why.  But arguing about snail mail on the internet is a tired affair, and I digress.  Plus, we’ve still got to get to the street festival!

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