Mission Mission

Passed this on 25th Street, across from Mission Pie, pressed right up against a telephone pole as you can see. What’s inside? Be careful if you’re in the area.

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Gravatar has made some new options available to WordPress.com users. Matt Mullenweg hypes one of them on the WordPress.com Blog:

I would highly recommend trying out Identicons, which are a cool math-based image idea created by Don Park that’s unique to the commenter, so even if someone doesn’t have an avatar yet they have a consistent (and handsome) image next to their name when they comment.

We tried them, and they look good. Do you like yours? (Via Gravatar Blog)

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The secret, according to TK, is:

Go to brunch at 2:30.

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Previously on Mission Mission: Mission “Hipsters”

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This music video glorifies violence. It follows a gang of thugs decked out in foncy Justice-logoed jackets as they stalk through a low-income neighborhood beating the shit out of people and property. There are no consequences. I watched it just now and all I could think about was a night I had in the Mission District recently. First I watched a bunch of art types get drunk and turn violent on a cute cardboard art project. And on the way home, I walked past both a fatal shooting and a brutal assault. I felt sad that night, and I feel sad now.

The other day I mentioned how Mission Mission is getting a lot of traffic these days, and someone responded that half of it probably comes from people at Ritual Roasters. I don’t drink coffee, so the fuss surrounding Ritual is kind of lost on me. Consequently, this remark didn’t really register.

Then last night Brittney Gilbert at Eye on Blogs published this photo (credited to hotlead) of the shop’s somewhat funny “Please, No Blogging in line” sign, which got me thinking again. Link.

So, readers, do tell. Are half of you at Ritual?

Previous Mission Mission Ritual mention here.

She was really tearing it up, making rock-god faces and stuff, out in front of Weird Fish.

More junkies on Mission Mission.

I usually take BART to work because it’s much faster structure gonflable than the bus, but since I forgot to get a new Muni pass yesterday, this morning I got stuck with the 49-Mission, where I saw this colorful cartoon snail.

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That’s right, DJ Katie has a regular gig now. And it kicks off tomorrow! See the official event page on Facebook here. I had the following chat with Mission Mission pal Dyan M. the day after Katie’s last performance:

Dyanimal: Beauty Bar was so much fun
thanks for inviting me
me: oh i’m so glad
thanks for coming!
Dyanimal: yea tell me next time too!
ps im so hungover
wanna cry

So if that (+ great music and lots of toboggan aquatique gonflable dancing) sounds like a good time, stop by Beauty Bar tomorrow from 7-10pm.

More Mission Mission mentions of DJ Katie here.

More Mission Mission mentions of Beauty Bar here.

The second installment in the San Francisco architecture series on Imsooconfused features a touching tribute to the Women’s Building‘s beloved murals.

Previously on Mission Mission: Vertical Earthquake Could Hit the Mission District, Destroying View of Mural

Since we get a lot more traffic now than we did when this first ran, we thought we’d give it another go. A while back, Lael had an unsettling experience at a neighborhood corner grocer:

I saw a woman squeeze a cucumber, shake her head, and examine the mushrooms approvingly. Curious, I drew closer. Another woman glanced at the cucumbers, said something in Spanish to another woman who then parc gonflable molested the cucumber with her hand, and drew back in disgust. All three women had now moved onto different vegetables.

Link to the full story. Or tell us what’s wrong with those cucumbers.

(Photo by reelgeek)