Single-Speed Bike Loom

Becca checks in today from India, to show us a bunch of pictures of gnarly tie-dyed fabrics and the bike looms used to make them. Link.

Previously:

Becca in Guatemala with Blender Bike, Laundry Bike and Peanut Butter Bike

Crumpled Metal

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Under the freeway at South Van Ness. Drive safe, everybody.

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American Apparel Flea Market Comes to SF

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Our old pal Ryan from American Apparel, pictured here (or maybe not), just got in touch to tell us about the company’s new traveling flea market, which stops tomorrow at SFSU’s student center. Prices start at $2, but presumably the hooded swimsuit will still be fetching a higher premium, because it is so fetching.

Butt Onions

Megan Wade‘s new favorite tagger.

Mission Local Burned Alive

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Handjobbin’ over the weekend took its favorite Mission print publication on a camping trip.

New Street Food Vendor Utilizes BART Car as Food Cart

Sexpigeon has the scoop.

Previously:

New Street Food Vendor Utilizes Meter Maid Mobile as Food Cart

Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party at 16th and Mission

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Photos by The Tens SF.

Getting Bourgie in Baghdad

From Ramona‘s profile of Chez Guerre:

Many believe that bringing higher end restaurants into war-zones will lead to gentrification and eventually to democracy.  “It gives people a reason to go to a neighborhood that they wouldn’t have been caught dead in before, or rather where dead is the only way they would have been caught there.”  To decrease the risk of being caught dead on your way to his restaurant John offers a complimentary armored transport service.  But he’s convinced that the surging popularity should be attributed as much to the promise of an entirely original dining concept as to a general death wish.

Read on.

Two Straight Blocks of Bike Balancing

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“Bender’s looked busy [last night],” notes reader and sender of this photograph Senor Hair, “There was like two straight blocks of this.”

Art Thief Strikes!

Have you seen this painting?

Because someone stole it off the wall at Mission: Comics and Art yesterday. Link.

Photo by ladycartoonist.

Previously:

Mr. Pickle Found Safe and Sound!

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