Mission Mission

This “oohhhhhhhh SNAP” moment is courtesy of Potential Past.

McCafe Pimps seen coming from Capp St. at 17th

Yesterday afternoon, these five crappy-coffee pushers could be seen rolling down the length of Capp St. in their tricked-out Segways (peep those oversized off-roading tires; that’s how you know their seriousness knows no bounds).  At first, I figured they were completely unaware of where the centers of economic activity occur around these parts.  Then I realized the Capp St. corridor is the harbinger of Mission District economic progress.  Capp has 1.3 million dollar dream homes (one even has a carriage house for your collection of prize-winning mares complete with a special walk-thru featured in the Chronicle), an opening cupcake store, jaywalking has replaced prostitution has the street’s greatest crime, and crack prices are through the roof.  A rising tide lifts all boats.

I get it now, McDonalds.  I get it.

(photo by Jake of Headline Shirts)

If you love acid-inspired skateboard films, make your way to the Victoria friday.

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Local author / blogger and Mission Mission tipster Amit Gupta‘s new book, Photojojo!, has reached number 1 on Amazon’s Arts & Photography section. Drinks are on Amit!

Do you have nothing to do tonight and like drinking with locally famous people?  Check this out:

GET SERVED with the League of Pissed Off Voters!

Some ppl think elected officials are inaccessible. But the League knows that they’re here to *serve*. So we’ve lined up these progressive asskickers as celebrity bartenders at our GET SERVED fundraiser at Elixir on Sept 16th:

Jeff Adachi! http://sfpublicdefender.org/about/leadership/
SF’s Public Defender, documentary filmmaker, fighter of injustice, & all-around smooth operator

Jane Kim! http://janekim.org/
SF School Board Member, arts and youth advocate, bass player, & Tae Kwon Do black belt

Chris Daly! http://thedalyblog.org/
SF Supervisor of District 6, progressive champion, fiery orator, & former professional bartender

Broke-Ass Stuart! http://brokeassstuart.com/
Local bloglord, snarky commentator, & not-exactly-elected-but-totally-awesome

They’ll be slingin’ drinks, local luv, and political gossip from 9 ’til late.

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Thanks Natalie!

I was just taking a peak at SFoodie for shits n’ giggles when I saw this: a fucking banner advertisement telling me that the 16th St. Pork Store is open until 3a.m. I don’t know what is more impressive: that we have another late-night dining option in the Mission now* or that I actually looked at a banner ad.

Pork Store PROTIP: Don’t get the tofu scramble.  That shit is so foul that you won’t need 13 shots of tequila in your stomach to puke all over their bathroom floor.  That said, their biscuits and veggie gravy is the jam.

* well, since August, according to this Yelp review.

Tonight at 7pm, neighborhood residents all lovers of Dolores Park will gather at the Dolores Park Church (455 Dolores) to “form goals and strategize.”  Some neighborhood policy setters will be there, so if you care about the city making community events more rare, your right to picnic, grilling pork, trash, noise, dogs off-leash, dogs on-leash, pedophile hipsters smoking cigarettes near the swings, or whatever your issue is, show up.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Pork Injunction in Dolores Park
• Update: More Details Surface Surrounding the Dolores Park ‘Improvements’
• Leaked Memo Reveals Effort to ‘Improve’ Dolores Park
• Police Kill Fun in Dolores Park
• Tecate Injunction
• City-Sanctioned Muggers Harass and Rob Dolores Park-Goers

If you’ve had a bad day at work and had to put up with the irritation that is traffic, coming across some juvenile cock graffiti can be the most magically uplifting thing in the world.

(Thanks Kati!)

Reader Erich sends this in from 16th and Mission, signaling the very end of the neighborhood’s latino music megastore as it transitions into a T-Mobile megastore.  While I never went into the store, I’ll miss gawking at the Ricky Martin handprints cemented to their entryway.

More on Ritmo Latino’s closing at Mission Loc@l.