Mission Mission

The party starts in a couple hours, down at Mission Workshop:

The event will feature amazing food, cheap beer, a silent auction, a raffle you don’t want to miss! (bikes, gift cards, Beauty products, tickets to SF events, gift cards for some of our favorite salons, Mission workshop goods….just to name a few!!!)

There will be live art by Max Ehrman and a DJ too famous to even tell you their name!..as if the raffle wasn’t enough!

There will be a silent auction including: Leader frame and fork, Masi bicycle frame, bike tours by Stoked SF, $40 Falletti foods gift card, Chuey hats, Bumble & Bumble gift basket ($100 value), Mission Workshop messenger bag, Hambone bag, poster by Bikes and the City, coffee by Bicycle Coffee Co.

A DJ too famous to even tell us their name? I bet it’s DJ Jazzy Jeff!

More information here. RSVP and invite your friends here.

Our pal Joshua checked out the free jazz show at Explorist International and had this to say:

At one point a dog wandered in, the drummer paused to pet the dog and the other musicians sorta filled in for the missing beats only to have the drummer jump back in at the right moment, free jazz at it’s best.

Hear that jazzbos? Don’t let a little thing like “being in the middle of a performance” keep you from taking care of business. Work it into your solo. Read on for the full typo-ridden review.

Good news for ice cream fans: Humphry Slocombe is working on a book of their ice cream recipes. That means you’ll be able to make your own Secret Breakfast (corn flakes and bourbon ice cream, duh) at home.

Wait, you can make ice cream at home? Yup. Apparently the recipes will show you how to do it using a $50 Cuisine Art appliance you can pick up at a department store. The book comes out in about a year, which is only slightly slower than actually waiting in line at their store.

Does this mean a Jasper Slowbrushe recipe book is to follow? I’ve been dying to crack the code behind their French Fries & Durian Aioli flavor.

[The Feast via Mission Loc@l]

Less to complain about at that point. How are you going to justify your excessive drinking?

[pic via @fayesvideo]

The search for an elegant bicycle beer transport solution has plagued mankind for decades. Significant advances were made in the past couple of years, including the Dolores Chiller by Timbuk2 and Rickshaw Bagworks’ Mexican Revolutionary-inspired Beerdolero.

This innovative and handsome solution was originally designed to to carry bike polo mallets, but once the craftsman realized that bike polo is not exactly as ubiquitous as he had thought (and that lots of people seem to think it’s lame), he strapped beer to it and won the rest of us over. The result is the “6 Pack Frame Cinch”, available on etsy now, for just $22.

Interesting idea, outsourcing the heavy lifting to your bike frame as opposed to your back. It’s probably not great for your balance, though, so don’t bother with that no-hands track stand unless you want to be picking broken glass out of your arm.

Still no word on what’s available for people who want to carry a 12-pack, though.

[via Hellen Jo, who also happens to be a kick-ass mission artist]

Reader Rob sent in this shot of a incredible new-ish mural up on 24th and Florida on what he calls “one of the crappiest buildings in the Mission”.

It is a phoenix, right? I was gonna say chicken, but that would have been offensive to people who care.

[Thanks Rob!]

Hey, if you think you might need help getting pumped about the CRANBERRIES COVER BAND performing tonight, Honey In Yr Brain has just the thing. It’s a video, about being hungover.

Watch it here.

I was gonna be like, “Whatever your troubles, whatever your crises, take heart because at least this wasn’t your dinner.” But then I turned up the brightness and saturation on the photo a lil bit and I was like, “Damn, wait, that looks good!”

Plus, I just ate half a bag of stale tortilla chips at 3 in the morning, so who am I to talk anyway?

[via vmonkman]

[pic from @PhilBronstein]

In The Mission right now. Bullying citizens into safety.

Yeah, you, commuter. You’ve been passing this Explorist International place twice a day since October, and you always say to yourself, “Hey, I should go in there one of these days,” but you’re always in too much of a hurry. Right?

Well, tonight’s the night. At 7 sharp there’s a free jazz party going on. The core duo are a drummer and a vibraphonist I think, which should be dope.

At the last event, some random kid rolled up on a skateboard, pulled out a pocket trumpet and jammed on the last couple numbers, and then skated off into the night without another word. Rad.

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