Mission Mission

The powers that be have been installing these safety posts dividing the bike lane from the rest of traffic on Market Street.  The latest ones (pictured above) can now be found on the stretch between Gough and Van Ness. 

I like the spirit of this idea, since it creates a visual safety barrier and clearly denotes to vehicles that it is unnacceptable to use the bike lane to pass other slower vehicles on the right.  Ultimately, this will foster an overall sense of cycling security and will probably encourage the more cautious riders to start commuting to work every day.  Furthermore, this will definitely prevent delivery trucks from parking in the bike lane.

However, there is another side of me (the one that doesn’t think twice before splitting Muni buses with an inch of clearance on each side) that so far has only experienced these things getting in the way.  Sometimes it is necessary to exit the bike lane and veer into the traffic lanes, such as when passing slower riders who are travelling side by side or when a car inches out of a driveway a litte too far without looking and you need to make instant evasive maneuvers.

like this jerkface

Was it really so bad before?  I don’t recall ever feeling unsafe on this stretch of Market Street while riding in the bike lane.  On the other hand, the ubiquitous placement of these posts would probably have come in handy when fellow blogger Adrienne Johnson of Change Your Life, Ride A Bike was antagonized and almost purposefully knocked off her bike by a douchebag cop in an undercover vehicle.

What do you guys think?  At least they’re fun for slalom practice; that is, until THIS GUY shows up:

Cute, right? (And we’ve been meaning to do more fashion posts.) But, like every strawberry-related thing we see these days, they just make us think of this. This too, kind of.

Photo by createdbyanna.

The SF Mixtape Society is hosting their second event at the Makeout Room this Sunday, April 4th. The theme is “Fools Rush In”. No mixtape required to attend, but if you want to leave with one you gotta bring one. There will be prizes for the best track listing and artwork.

Get to work! You only have four days to comb through Thrift Town for a casette recorder and figure out how to cleverly work in Da Brat’s Funkafied into the mix.

• The Makeout Room on 22nd b/t Mission and Valencia
• Sunday, April 4th, 4-6pm
• No cover

Previously:

Mortified by Mixtapes

Ever since since DIY/nerd hero Ben Heckendorn‘s Pinball Tribute to Bill Paxton popped up in my reader, I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s amazing. It’s a masterpiece. I want nothing more than to have this in lieu of Elvis Pinball at the Uptown. Maybe we’ll start a fundraiser to buy this sucker.

Folks, it has a motorized self-crushing Hamm’s can:

More on Bill Paxton Pinball at Ben Heck’s.

Previously:

Cat Drinking Hamm’s

Tag Savage of Sleepover SF produced this epic new logo for us. You might’ve seen it on our Facebook page, and you’ll be seeing it right here on our site some time soon when we unveil an equally epic redesign.

So, how about this: You get a tattoo of this beaut’, we’ll give you free Mission Mission for life.

[This is not entirely a joke. What with all this paywall talk, not to mention the reinvigorated world of print, we may soon be charging everyone $19.99 a month to read this thing. But not you, you with your fresh ink, not you.]

Victoria K. sent us word of this story in the Wall Street Journal.

In 1999, the Mission’s Casa Sanchez offered free lunch for life for customers who got tatt’ed up with the restaurant’s iconic Dr. Strangelove-inspired mascot. The media caught wind of the offer and facing potential financial ruin, they capped the promotion.

Well, if you weren’t one of the lucky 50 people that got in before the bust, it’s on again. Ms. Sanchez says it’s a ‘recession special’. Get your ass down to Black and Blue now and beat the rush.

This is the video for the hit song “Bone Jam” by Jeff the Brotherhood. Don’t know much about them, but they ruled in Austin last week, this song rules, the video rules, and they are playing at the Eagle TONIGHT. Lucky you!

Oh and some dude named Ty Seagall is headlining.

And don’t forget to see Surfer Blood for free at Amoeba.

(Thanks, SFist’s Bay Area Concerts!)

This looks like a fun party. And surely the owner of that wall will appreciate this nice drawing more than the owner of that last wall appreciated that ugly tag. And look at all that plaid!

Photography by createdbyanna.

See the finished mural after the jump:

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OMG the Mish the other night spotted this doozy of a don’t at La Corneta. “This bro,” they seem sad to say, “was too busy on his phone to tip.”

They saw some other stuff there too. Read on.

Haverhill Fever is a great new blog about some town on the east coast none of us have ever heard of. Yesterday they published this pretty good billboard hack, but they took it a step further than we ever have and actually tracked down the artists responsible and got them to share their story:

We’re into finding places to explore and leaving our mark in subtle ways that are more for humor than anything else. Obviously in this case it was just taking a jab at a bad comedian haha

Read on.

Previously:

Graffiti Vs. Billboards

Billboard Liberation Front Delivers Real Beaut’ in the Mission

Will Ferrell Vs. Kaiser Permanente