Mission Mission

Geo-gustatory research fellow David Enos has produced a list of BART stations and their corresponding flavor. Wild, right? Here are some good ones:

Fruitvale    Otter Pops

McArthur   Refrigerated Celery

Rockridge    Werther’s Originals

19th Street      Smucker’s Grape

Read on for 24th Street and more.

Note that 16th Street is conspicuously absent from the list. What does 16th Street taste like?

Gawker has all the bad news (and a nice haiku) right here.

So what’s the plan? Hoard case after case? Start an underground Four Loko club? A medical Four Loko dispensary? What do we do?

[Photo via stemuzz]

UPDATE: [Photo by Andrew Durso] [Thanks, Alex F!]

Bummer!

Previously:

‘The Next KKKatie’ Just a Levi’s Marketing Tool?

Is This Girl the Next KKKatie?

Epicly shot, epicly scored, and this dude performs a mess of feats that look downright computer generated. But for real!

Just watch:

[via neas]

Jeez, I wonder if something like this might’ve been going on at that Dolores Park Cuddle-In or whatever over the weekend. Check your wallets, people.

[Photo by tripleawesome]

P.S. Who wants to start a band called Hugger Muggers with me?

Remember the planned Dolores Park Playground renovation? And how we all thought it meant the whole park was going to be closed for months on end?

Well, I guess it was supposed to start some time last month, but Dolores Park Works reports today that the funds just aren’t there. The renovation will be delayed at least until spring — at which point it won’t be “off season” anymore, so maybe it should be delayed until at least next winter. I dunno. Read on.

A couple months back, we reported that the food at St. Luke’s was pretty good. Today, a current St. Luke’s patient wrote in to protest:

I’ve been a patient at st. lukes hospital since 11/12/10….My food I have been donating to the homeless, that I am able to spot from the 10th floor @ Cesar Chavez. They have even turned it down. I’m sure that folks from third world countries donations are better off than we are. So If you happen to bring a relative to this hospital, make sure that you bring them food from home, that way you’ll know they will survive.

Read on.

I do! (Mostly so’s it would pave the way for a permanent parklet out front of Arizmendi, and lots more permanent parklets all over town.)

Anyway, it’s been proposed, and Robert from Dolores Park Works tells us it may or may not be facing some opposition, so keep an eye out for word of some kind of public hearing, so you can attend and voice your opinion.

[Photo by Bryan Goebel / Streetsblog]

“The Summit is hiring Blue Bottle, Ritual, or Four Barrel trained Baristas ONLY,” reads this Craigslist ad, “DO NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED BY EITHER COMPANY.”

So angry! Why exclude people AND be so mean about it?

Well, reader Meredith Scheff wanted some answers too, so she replied to the ad:

I was really excited when you opened. I love the idea and spirit behind the café and your business, I love your welcoming atmosphere, I love the aesthetics and the food. I also was excited to see your ad posted on Craigslist. I would love to work with you! I’m a long time foodie, a pretty damn good cook, and I’ve worked as a barista and view it as an art. I geek out on it, is what I’m saying. Then I read this:

[Here she quotes the line quoted above.]

WHOA there Summit. This is totally un-excellent. You mean to tell me that my love of food and coffee only counts if I have been employed by one of a few select places? I’m pretty sure I’ve run across some pretty-damn-crapy baristas at those places- and some pretty damn good ones at ‘lesser’ cafés. These places hire a handful of people at most, and that means there are plenty of us food-loving coffee-nerds that would be a great fit for you.

I look forward to hearing your reply, as this has put a terrible taste in my mouth about your business.

Blam! I was like,”Suck it, Summit! No WAY you’ll recover from THEM APPLES!!” But then their Managing Director replied with a perfectly understandable explanation of the situation:

we’re in a bind where we need to plug in baristas quickly. we prefer blue bottle trained baristas because our contract with them specifies that anyone that makes their coffee must be trained by them. the training takes 2 weeks! it shortens if you’re trained by ritual or 4 barrel.

as a side note: if we had the time, we’d open up the applicant pool to everyone. when we opened we didn’t make this same requirement. in fact none of our opening baristas were from blue bottle, ritual, etc. we looked for people exactly like you and we invested over 40hrs of coffee training with our staff.

sucks that time is not on my side this time around.

Bummer indeed! Anyway, if you, like Meredith, were put off by this ad, don’t blame the Summit. They seem well intentioned and all… Okay, here comes the punch line. Say it with me, as it is such a popular mantra lately: BLAME BLUE BOTTLE. (Just kidding, mostly.)

[Photo by Everett Bogue]

Full text of the ad after the jump, in case it expires:

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The Tens captured this photographic evidence and explains the project’s political motivations here.