High Holidays!

Thanks for sharing, Primo! Merry Christmas to all!

Previously:

Why Do You Like the Holidays?

Mission Chinese Food Not Actually Authentic as it Purports to Be?

Bernalwood delivers the bad news:

Mission Chinese Food, the area’s most amazing Chinese restaurant (within a Chinese restaurant), is closed until Sunday, December 26.

Read on for further commentary and possible alternatives.

(FYI, Broke-Ass Stuart suggests R&G Lounge.)

New PSAs on NYC Subway Warn Against 'Train Surfing'

Either this is an actual PSA because “surfing the train” is an actual problem in the New York City subway, or this is the raddest prank of the year.

Has anybody ever tried to surf a BART?

[via PaperTowel]

Previously:

Tarp Surfing

BART Swing

First Date or Never

How long do you wait to sleep with someone? Honey In Yr Brain and her roommates have some thoughts:

P: Yeah. I mean it took three dates to get her to sleep with me…..

K: Three dates? Damn, that seems pretty quick and easy for someone who seems like they valued sex or whatever…not that I would know.

P: What!? Isn’t that the rule? They say “three dates is the rule” on Sex and the City.

K: You watch Sex and the City?

Read on for the powerful conclusion (and to see if P watches Sex and the City or not).

[Photo by Primo]

Keith Haring Tribute Debuts on Local Construction Barricade

This morning, SFist broke the news that the Divisadero Laser Kitty Mural was not painted over maliciously, but rather with explicit permission from whoever runs that wall.

Which sort of renders that huge argument we were having moot, right? Maybe, maybe not.

Keith Haring was a dude that started out tagging subway advertisements and stuff. Then he became the toast of the art world. Now, years after his death, his shit is everywhere, from dumbass tourist tchotchkes to high-end art gallery souvenirs.

And now here’s his stuff, tagged by someone else on a dirty A-frame barricade. Is this art? Is it more or less art than a real Haring original? Is it more or less art than a real Haring tourist tchotchke?

[Photo by SF Gov]

Eight-Million-Ton Russian Octopus

I love maps! (This one is on the wall at Viracocha.)

Previously:

Russian-Tinged Klezmer Brunch

Rocktopus

Impish Toilet Octopus

Pro Drunk

I was walking my very drunk friend home last night when we came upon this champion, wearing a big floppy yellow tarp, coughing and moaning his way up 24th Street, loudly, pausing only to walk into the occasional wall or tree.

I said to my very drunk friend, “You, sir, are an amateur.”

Waste of Space

I think this should be a parklet. Fancy yuppies with their fancy SUVs can go park in the Marina.

Garage Face

Garage Face is unimpressed.

[Photo by SF Gov]

Previously:

Nonplussed Lunchbox

Jumbo Tex™ Do-It-Yourself Stair Slide

Looks like it might be kind of a bumpy ride, but I’m sure as long as you slick it up with some baby oil or something it’s perfectly safe.

Jumbo Tex.

[Photo and slide idea by Nattles]

Allan Hough

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Email: allanhough@gmail

Website: http://allanhough.bandcamp.com

Biographical Info:

"I joked that living in the Mission would be the end of me. And there were nights where it felt like the case.

One night I went out with my friend Allan to the bar that no one goes to on 16th Street, where I lost half my drink and money on the dance floor. Later we skated down 16th to Evelyn Lee, where I fell off my board and landed on my head as the 22 bus sped past behind me. A sobering moment. At the bar, I sulked and nursed my wounds until Allan put on Amy Winehouse’s 'Valerie.' We danced, he dipped me, and I felt better."

— My pal Valerie, writing about life in the Mission