Mission Mission

First off, the weather’s supposed to be good, so there’s no reason not to just lie in the park all day. That said, there’s lots going on this Saturday:

The Really Really Free Market of course takes place in Dolores Park, so attending requires little travel. This edition is a special celebration, honoring the life and times of activist and RRFM champion Kirsten Brydum. Expect food, entertainment, activities and lots and lots of FREE. Though the event goes from Noon to 6pm, funcheapSF reports that at some point, the entire party proceeds down to Clarion Alley for the next bit of fun…

[Photo by jomarch.]

This year’s Clarion Alley Block Party! The Myopenbar.com newsletter chose it as this week’s featured item, and felt the need to say nothing more than, “1000 tattooed youngsters in an alley, drinking / 12pm-8pm.” See you there!

[Photo of past party by gretchen robinette.]

Finally, Modern Times Bookstore turns 37 on Saturday, and to celebrate, they’re inviting one and all for food and surprises, beginning at 3pm. Link.

[Photo by Pete Boyd.]

Update: This just in:

“There’s the first Fall 2008 median planting along Guerrero tomorrow – 9.30am to 2pm, Guerrero between Chavez & 25th Streets. Aaron Cohen Jazz Trio starts at 10am. Block Party on Guerrero!”

Thanks, greening_guerrero!

My new favorite zine is Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt. It’s full of gorgeous drawings of well-dressed zoo animals like these, as well as entertaining lists like “12 Things To Do When You Are Stuck In Traffic” and “3 Unpleasant Sensations”. It’s kind of dirty and kind of violent and I love it. Get it here.

Last night, we got to Mission Street Food at 7:55 and the line was already half a block long. In addition to this, some maniac was causing a commotion up front shouting something about permitting. We were very hungry, so we went to La Taqueria instead. Undaunted, Burrito Justice stuck it out and got the full story, and some interesting photos (like the one above). Also, bacon. Link.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Late-Night Gourmet Roach Coach: Week 2

High-Falootin’ Bar Tartine Line Cook Goes Nitty Gritty

Non-Missionite Chris writes:

I was at 21st and Valencia and heard gunshots last night. They seemed to come from the direction of Mission and 19th-ish. Anyone know what happened? Two sets of sirens followed, which I assume to be police and then ambulance/fire. I would describe the sound as a high caliber handgun. Is the frequency of Mission gun violence escalating or is this ‘normal’? I don’t live in the neighborhood.

Link. What happened? Also, Chris, there’s no such thing as normal.

Katie and I just got back from a week in Mazatlan, a city whose street art and street food scenes just might rival those of the Mission District. So here are some pictures of graffiti and stickers and things (click to enlarge). We would’ve taken pictures of the bacon-wrapped hot dogs too, but we were busy eating.

I wrote more about our trip at my Twitter account, here. And thanks to Lael for holding down the fort.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Nuclear Care Bear

Katie’s Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Farts

SFist has the scoop:

You might remember the incident, huh? About 9:45pm last night, heading north. Why would I know the time, well I had to look at my cell phone to keep my eyes from looking over as you pulled his cock through his jeans and into your mouth.

How could we all not notice you? You were so ugly and those boobs were so little it was just obvious. Then the guy you were with looked like Billy Bob Thorton in “Slingblade”. Except even weirder looking. Quite a pair.

It gets better and better. Link.

WHAT IM SEEING dot com just put up an analysis of the Quake Quiz SF website, and its chilling graphics in particular. The one above really hits home, am I right? At least it’s still in tact. Link.

Also:

• “Katrina-Style Disaster” Predicted at SFist.
• Bizarro La Taqueria here on Mission Mission.

Reader Bryan Haggerty pointed us toward this Improv Everywhere video, in which a bunch of people gather in the park and listen to the same mp3 at the same time. The mp3 tells them to do stuff, and they do it, and it’s all sponsored by Yahoo! and they got a helicopter to shoot aerial footage. Link.

Update: mcas says, “I, too, love doing things so I can spend the next 4 days at my over-paid tech job looking through flickr for photos of myrself to add to my facebook.” Haha!

Over at Static Fix, Alex has a word-for-word reenactment of the performance delivered by the play-by-play announcers at Saturday’s Red Bull Soapbox Race in Dolores Park. It begins thus:

Stu, is this great or what? This is great Jay! It fuckin’ rocks to be here right now in San FRAN-CISCO!!! Give it up for these fans. Let’s hear the fans. Whoooooooooo! Hahaha. That’s right. We’re here in Dolores Park. Red Bull bringing it to us so hard right now with the Soapbox Derby in DOLOR-ES! Whooo! Let’s throw it down to my boy Shiboya. Shiboya! Wassuuuuuuuup?!

The whole rest of the show is “transcribed” here, and paired with some nice photos (like the one above).

We also like Carlos Reyes’ coverage.