Mission Mission

Late Saturday night I got a text from somebody (pictured) lucky enough to attend John Waters’ pricey benefit show at (and for) our favorite (and only) neighborhood movie theater:

John Waters just promised to start the Abortion Film Festival at the Roxie.

Oh, good! Can’t wait!

[Photo by Frank Chan]

This is but one panel in a new strip by Lisa Hanawalt titled “Rejected Pet Portraits“, which is due to appear in an issue of The Believer, along with “Ideal Pimple“.

Definitely better than that toilet Garfield at Pop’s.

Real multi-tasking is making four burritos and giving props to the a dude standing on the counter taking his picture at the same time.

Snapped at Taqueria Cancun by Chris Kalani who apparently did lots of cool stuff during his visit.

Amie spotted this sad banana at Rainbow Grocery this weekend. I blame the raw foodists.

Here’s a closer look:

I mean, Oakland is okay, but that’s one humdinger of a crew-neck sweatshirt. Wow. Kudos to Corntard, the finest new Tumblr on the scene, for snapping this gem.

It definitely tops the hand-painted bicycle art sweatshirt we saw, and is almost up there with the best sweatshirt ever.

UPDATE: This is indeed not the most amazing vintage find ever, but a brand-new Steuart Pittman original. Still rad.

Previously:

Guide To How To Have Fun This Summer If You Live In SF And Your Best Friends Live in Oakland

It all goes down tomorrow night. The forces of local celebrity ping pong enthusiasts converge, on Capp Street of all places, to take on a ping pong grandmaster. Authors Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz will present a slideshow for their new book Everything You Know is Pong.

From the far side of the table author Dave Eggers, musician Jerry Harrison and restaurant innovator Anthony Myint will stare down a champion who will attempt to embarrass the pretty boys by defeating them not just with a paddle, but maybe also a dead fish, a copy of the book or a piece of ice. You too can step up if you’re in the mood for some wicked humiliation, or death.

Tuesday, 12/14 at 7:30 pm – 190 Capp Street, at 17th – $10-$20 suggested donation, all proceeds go to 826 National.

When a group of buddies blessed with only pedestrian athleticism decides to spend an afternoon playing basketball together, it’s really a prudent idea to bring along more than one ball.  You know, in case this sort of thing happens.  Thanks for nothing, Ernesto!

[Photo via Zarin]

A local martial artist demonstrates the deadly infinity kick.

[via chriskalani, a guy visiting from Portland]

Perhaps it had something to do with that weird one-day mid-December heatwave we had yesterday, but for a few hours between 4 and 5pm, the sunset was definitely something to behold.  And it wasn’t just restricted to our wonderful Mission neighborhood, as our (GWAR-demystifying) pal Trevor demonstrates:

Woah, his camera phone is waaaaaay better than mine!

Previously:

Sunset from the Sunset

Sunset from the Five

Sunset from Dragon Calvalry

Sunset Lagoon

Can anyone join? Unclear. But CycleZine has more info, sort of:

I see influence of East Coast Ivy League and West Coast Hipsters..Yachting…. Love it….

Read on.

[via SCD]