Mission Mission

Janey Smith is one of our favorite poets (and blog commenters), so we were excited to find this curious bit of performance on YouTube.

Purchase Janey’s book Animals here.

You can’t play pool at Pop’s anymore, but YOU CAN PLAY AIR HOCKEY. Everyone is excited:

[Photo by Carlos]

Mission Local reports:

Once vilified with the stamp of gentrification and viewed as a service for out-of-town visitors, valet parking has increasingly become accepted in the Mission, as a dozen or so restaurants and parking lots now offer the service. With new restaurants moving in, the likelihood is that even more will be needed.

If approved, a 50-space lot at Builders Exchange of San Francisco, on South Van Ness Avenue near 20th Street, will be the latest to adopt valet parking.

“What we can see in the immediate future is that the demand for parking, especially in the evening, is going to rise quite noticeably,” said Phillip Lesser of the Mission Merchants Association, who is spearheading the proposal for valet parking at the Exchange. “The supply of parking is going to diminish quite considerably.”

Read on.

[Photo by tastr]

Our pal Matt delivers the bad news:

Was running late for work so didn’t have time to snap a pic but saw a city maintenance worker cutting down the swing on Valencia. Swinggate continues! SOPA! Obama!

Capitalism! Christianity! Society!

This teaser ad looks pretty phony, but it’s making the rounds and getting some serious coverage. I sent the link to our in-house punk expert Lizzy and asked her if it’s for real:

Lizzy: WHAT
i don’t know….
i’d give it like a 40% chance maybe
mostly given all the other emo reunions that have gone around the last few years
where’d you get that?
me: josh yule
Lizzy: i don’t know
i’ll believe it when i see it
it doesn’t seem likely, but then i also though at the drive-in were gone forever
Sent at 11:21 AM on Thursday

Excellent point. Here’s hoping the band responsible for “the sound of the Mission” indeed comes back to life. Thanks, Lizzy! Thanks, Josh!

Give their rear window a little lovetap with the Freedom Hammer, and I guarantee that’s the last time they ever yell at a cyclist.

Previously:

Cyclists: What do you do when someone yells at you from their car?

Sara, we agree. (Valencia between 26th & Southern California.)

This handy comic by The System gives you a healthy alternative to your standard bike vs. car road rage.

[via Rickshaw Bagworks' FB page]

One of the best parts about living in the Mission is the avocado supply. They are plentiful, cheap, and available at all the markets that occupy almost every corner of our fair neighborhood. Have you ever met anyone who was like, “Guacamole? No way, José.” I haven’t, and if I did, I wouldn’t want to be friends with them.

Much as I love avos, I’d never thought to put them into a dessert until I met Laura Miller at a raw, vegan desserts class at Pot & Pantry on 18th & Guerrero this weekend. She is rad, she’s a babe, and she runs Sidesaddle Kitchen, whose motto is “Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.” She also taught me how to turn avocados into chocolate pudding, and now I want to be her BFF (I promise I’m not trying to creep on you, Laura, despite my previous comment about how you’re a babe).

The crazy thing is that you can’t taste the avocado. Try giving it to your friends and not telling them what’s in it until after they are all like, man, this is awesome! Then you can be like, yeah, and it’s vegan and made out of avocado!

If you have a food processor, or a blender and a rubber spatula, you can make this in like 10 minutes! If you don’t have a food processor and you want one, look around at Goodwill and Craigslist. My mother-in-law got mine at a yard sale for $10 (Thanks, Sharon). It’s from like 1978 and it purrs like a kitten.

Laura’s teaching another class this weekend, and this one is about breakfast. We all want to be the kind of person who eats breakfast, right? She’ll make it totally fun and she’ll feed you. GO!

Here’s Laura’s chocolate pudding recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

2 large avocados (I used 3 small)
½ cup agave or maple syrup
½ cup cocoa powder
3 Tbsp. coconut oil
1 tsp. balsamic
½ tsp. nama shoyu (or soy sauce)
¼ tsp. salt

Directions:

Blend all ingredients in a food processor. Enjoy as is, or freeze overnight for an icy snack.

This turtleneck wearer explains, succinctly:

turtleneck, no. scissors & glue, yes. [source redacted]