Mission Mission

Whenever he gets too drunk to maintain his Valencia serenade, Mission troubadour Omer retreats to the mural wall across the street from my house, right next to the mockingbird car alarm tree.  Instrument skills extinguished for the night due to inebriated motor reflexes, he nonetheless continues the show and resorts to borderline racism and half-baked paranoia, even if there is no audience.  While it was too dark to really see what was going on, I’m sure you’ll recognize the voice.

Full disclosure:  If you choose NOT to listen to these rants of his, you will probably end up smarter for it.  I, on the other hand, do not have much of a choice!

Omer extols us to study the Constitution, and he wonders where Obama is from:

Omer rallies against gentrification and apologizes for the sorry state in which his hero Jimmy Carter left our country:

Previously:

Omer’s Favorite Breakfast Cereals

Omer, Bard of Valencia

No Love for Omer?

Clooney’s today made Hidden Host‘s new Worst Places to Take a First Date list. (Kudos, Clooney’s!)

Of the several locations on the list, Clooney’s is the only one in the Mission, which leads us to believe there might’ve been some glaring omissions. Aren’t there worse places in the neighborhood to take a first date than this place?

Photo by generik11.

Previously:

Clooney’s: The Next Hot Bar in the Mission by Kevin Montgomery

Clooney’s: The Next Medjool by Kevin Montgomery

Shark Toof has been spotted around these parts a bit. This weekend brought a sighting in L.A.

Cameo by our old frenemy, NeckFace.

Ardent commenter and Ski Free expert MrEricSir captured this crew planting some trees on the recently renovated sidewalk of Valencia between 16th and 17th St.  While this definitely looks better than:

. . . Am I the only one who’s worried about where to lock up my bicycle now that all those parking meters are gone?

UPDATE!!! I am an idiot and the parking meters were reinstalled last week!  Leave it to the City to maximize parking revenue efficiency!

And this black asphalt will allegedly contain the new Días de los Muertos bike-racks!  Rad!  Nice surface area!

Unbeknownst to us, our partnership with VidSF is still going strong, and today it resulted in some coverage of the Bring Your Own Big Wheel party that Andrew mentioned earlier. Watch our very own Sunny Angulo’s report here.

SFist has a video too, here.

(Thanks, Sunny!)

Previously:

Fight Club

And will now just be kind of sad.

RIP Al Ross, founder of Doggie Diner.

If you see them around, tell them thanks, if you want.

Photo by Dolores Park Works.

Brainslip brings us some hard-hitting reporting about everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed Mission troubadour/celebrity stalker Omer. So read on if you’re curious about “Omer’s Favorite Breakfast Cereals Of All Time“. (I’m surprised Yoko-O’s didn’t make the list)

As of 14 minutes ago, at Humphry Slocombe.

I stumbled upon this custom radial map of some guy’s favorite burrito joints and their relative distances from his home. From the looks of it, it’s a map of Santa Clara:

Her son Greg, then 29, had recently introduced her to the “My Maps” plotting feature on Google maps. “He suggested that it would [even] allow me to map his favorite burrito joints, and I took him at his word,” says Brown. “I had radial maps in my head; they seem the most primal, symbolic kind of map. And yet–here’s the beauty and elasticity of maps–perfect for burrito joints!” Wondering about those Korean characters at the bottom? They’re a nod to Greg’s wife, who is Korean. The translation: “I love burritos.”

This looks like something we’d see on Burrito Justice; I’m surprised Johnny0 wasn’t consulted. Although in the Mission we’d definitely have to use feet instead of miles.

(via National Geographic)