Mission Mission

Noise Pop is basically just days away — time to get excited!

Today we’re giving away tickets to the YACHT show (also starring Tussle) on March 2nd at Slim’s. Here’s YACHT’s latest video:

If you’d like to win tickets, please come up with a brand-new explanation of what the acronym “YACHT” means and submit it in the comments section below. One entry per person please. Winner will be picked based on merit. Contest ends one week from right now.

Buy tickets here.

Another step in the long hike toward a completely upgraded Dolores. (Wherein the 20th and Church overlook becomes all fancy instead of all janky.) Dolores Park Works highlights some changes:

• The North Restroom is now closer to the playground.
• The steps to down to the abandoned 19th Street J Church stop are  now persevered.
• The South Restroom will not have a living roof.
• The 18th Street entrance to the maintenance yard is now closer to Church Street to preserve the flow of the 18th Street lawn.

Have a look:

Read on for more graphics and reporting.

Cocktails rule. Watch:

“Hey Winnie” is featured on their new EP, out today on Father/Daughter Records. Get it here.

Our pal Doc Pop is in the final week of his Kickstarter campaign to fund a zine project featuring lots and lots of gorgeous photography. Basically, if you donate, you’re pre-ordering the first issue (or more). It’s called “American Analog” and here’s Doc telling us all about it:

Read more or donate here.

And a ping pong table

(Thanks, LiJia!)

[via David Enos]

Farmgirl rules. Here’s the deal:

• No Waste: We offer one daily arrangement of beautiful, local and seasonal flowers and greens. For Valentine’s Day, you may get Cymbidium Orchids, non-red Roses, Tulips, Lisianthus, Anemones, Ranunculus, Kale & Scabiosa, depending upon is available with our growers that week.
• Field-to-vase: We work directly with local farmers to source only the freshest flowers.
• Recycled packaging and low-emission: We use recycled vase and reused burlap coffee bags from San Francisco-based Ritual Roasters and our bouquets are delivered via bike courier.

Lovely! Browse today’s options here. (Bouquet in a burlap sack, bouquet in a reused vase, or a LIVING PLANT.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2DRiQt1b0

When I first saw this commercial on TV a few weeks ago, my initial reaction was “OMG, those Verizon people stole this idea from that Valentine’s bike ride dude from last year!  It’s a travesty!”  Fortunately, rather than jump to conclusions with an incendiary blog post, I did a little research and learned from the Mission Bicycle guys that the ad agency hired by Verizon actually got in touch to find the lovestruck cyclist who originally embarked on the ride and then went and used him in the commercial!

Mission Bicycle has the whole story over on their blog, so go and check it out, and then try your best to think of something even better to do this year for that special someone in your life!

[Photo via Mission Bicycle]

Previously:

• Valentine’s bike ride

it was a lot quieter than usual outside the 24th St. BART station on Sunday thanks to a whimsical puppeteer whose presence seemed to dissuade the ubiquitous megaphone-toting preacher from his customary pulpit.

If the preacher’s faith was not already completely shattered by the fact that his lord failed to protect his congregation from this territorial incursion, surely this morning’s news that the pope has decided to resign has totally broken him.

Last Saturday night I saw some dude with Google Glasses stumbling down Mission Street and I just . . . I don’t know. Anyway, today we have this pic sent in (via Bodieswork) of what appears to be a BART cop, or at least a cop, wearing Google Glasses. So, dear readers, I ask you, if this is what’s happening now, what the hell happens next?

Dum dum DUM!!