Mission Mission

Our old pal Melena is on Fashionist today. Asked to explain her outfit, she said, “I like cowboy boots and I like purple.” Link.

Previously:

Melena Loves The Black Keys

Nick writes:

Hey Guys,

Exciting times! Looks like IGA Delano’s on VanNess @ 23rd is spicing things up with an Organic aisle, aisle 6. Now you can feast on Annie’s Organic cracker snacks with out having to go all the way to Wholefoods.

Go Mission

From a classic Onion opinion piece:

The problem is that the property owners here are clueless. They fill their yards with pavement and statues of the Virgin Mary, when all they have to do is clear that brush and we’d have a great beer garden or bocce court. They’re spending all this money to renovate the old church, when it’d be put to better use split it up into condos. My landlord has no idea this apartment—hell, every apartment in this building—is undervalued. He could quadruple his profits by cutting my place in half.

Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood.

Nobunny is I think everybody’s new favorite rock ‘n’ roll band. Lucky for everybody, Nobunny plays tonight at The Knockout, and with everybody’s other favorite rock ‘n’ roll band The Flakes no less! All for only $6!!

Sweet Nobunny video here. Nobunny rules!

Photo by RG Karlic.

Previously on Mission Mission:

How To Cut A Bunny’s Face Off

Bummers aside, I’m in a good mood. Today, I’m in the national Onion: The State’s David Wain, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver

Curbed SF reports.

Alright, that’s it. All this hipster talk is getting tiresome, and has taken a turn toward the violent besides.

Aaron from The Passionistas and World Famous in San Francisco had an interesting premonition in his Predictions 2009 post: “Cool Kid will replace Hipster.”

I don’t want to be some kind of vocabulary Nazi or anything, but what if we called a loose moratorium on “hipster” in favor of “cool kid”? I say let’s try it out, for 2009 say, and see how it goes. Might be the innocuous breath of fresh air we all need.

Note: Aaron’s Fashion Predictions 2008 (from November 2007) were pretty spot on, so maybe this will be for the best.

In an emailed subjected “This Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” reader Ts reports:

I got coffee at Dynamo Donuts this morning.  Someone stole their sign!  In its place was a note from the staff which reads the following:

Ryan Farr, local chef and Mission Street Food pal, yesterday posted step-by-step instructions detailing the preparation of Cured Rolled Face. Much like his Rabbit Head and Lengua Terrine post, this one tantalizes even as it horrifies. Link.

Oh and here’s another variation on the recipe.

Photographer Gretchen Robinette captured a piece of perfection over the weekend. First published by SF Weekly, it quickly took the internet by storm.

Local blogger Megan Allison spread the word, calling it “the new face of irony.” Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone weighed in, declaring the photograph “a definitional case of the Narcissism of Small Differences.”

And then our very own zinzin came along and delivered probably my favorite commentary yet. If the kid in the picture doesn’t immediately upon hearing his new moniker launch himself into a career in the music industry making records and touring the world as Grand Arbiter of Scum, he’s fooling himself.

Incidentally, this is his second appearance on Mission Mission. I don’t recall whether he was the one that actually uttered the haiku, but he was definitely a member of the crew depicted in Skate-Punk Poetry Overheard Outside the Nice Lady Store.

Thanks, everybody!

Link to photo in Gretchen Robinette’s Flickr photostream.

Update (Tuesday night): Again, I’m not going to censor anybody, but please try to refrain from making death threats or things of that nature in the comments section.

Also, Gretchen Robinette just posted a new version of the photo, properly exposed and with the addition of a second subject, cropped out of the image above. Check it out!

Update (Mid-February): Tim Dickinson changed his Twitter handle, rendering the above hyperlink erroneous. Try this.