Mission Mission

The Facebook IPO is already changing the Mission:

H/T to @cowperthwait

Now hiring. If you think you have what it takes.

In the wake of all the debate about whether SFPD or NYPD drive the worst patrol cars, OPD swoops in and takes the cake.

(Oh and they did some other swooping too.)

[via The Fog Bender]

Killer street art!

[via We Built This City]

Oh so this is where all those acappella guys in college ended up:

Bummer!

(Thanks, Hap.)

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!