Mission Mission

The 2009 Día de los Muertos poster: a work in progress / Kiriko Moth

Kiriko Moth, a local artist who is designing the poster for this year’s Día de los Muertos celebration, alerts us to some troubling financial news:

The Marigold Project is a nonprofit organization who, for 30 years has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and sharing the traditional Meso-American rituals surrounding the Dia de los Muertos. And now they need your help! The city has raised permit fees and the organization is in a funding crisis. Visit their website at www.dayofthedeadsf.org to learn more and donate to their organization, because without the support of the community this amazing event cannot continue!

Donate Here

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A tipster fills us in:

There’s a teabagger type guy, with a hitler-moustached obama poster outside the south van ness post office @ 23rd.

This is not the first time that the Obama haters have come into the Mission, but it is the first time they have not been hiding under the cover of darkness.  Clearly they are becoming more emboldened by the health-care profiteers’ propaganda and Glenn Beck’s consistent opposition to the healthcare bill.

Did anyone get a picture?

(Photo by Mission Loc@l’s Armand)

This past weekend was Bender’s 6th anniversary, so team Mission Mission was there in force feasting on buffalo girls, guzzling Tecates and club sodas, and awkwardly dancing to soul music.  Then we spotted the most epic couple breaking it down all over the floor.

This is the closest I've ever come to going inside Clooney's, which is sad.

Some London bloke recently came stateside on assignment to find “San Francisco’s Best Dive Bars.”  Interestingly enough, his two Mission choices were The Attic and Clooney’s.  Really?

On the subject on Clooney’s, it appears it was recently sold to a new owner (see sign above).  I cannot wait to see what goes down there.  I bet it turns into the next Medjool.

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Spotted at 15th and Treat by permanently scatterbrained a long time ago:

just when you thought your rare albanian velodrome made you the most deck hipster in the mission…

…this son of a bitch has to add a monster truck tire to his rare ukrainian velodrome. damn!

(Photo and post tags stolen from permanently scatterbrained | Hat tip San Francisco, For the Win)

Previously on Mission Mission:

• The Purest Form of Cycling

Unfortunately I was slow on the camera draw, but that does not detract from the fact that there was a dude pushing a big stuffed llama on a skateboard down Capp St.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Homeless Jester
• CHICKENS

Sugarlump at 24th and Florida is now serving vegan tamales.  Ordinarily this would not be noteworthy, but if they are the delicious yet elusive SF Vegan Tamales, this is totally earth-shattering.

(via Vegansaurus! via eddo_likes_you via Futurama)

Where they store the coconuts.

We’re a week behind on this one, but there is a new coconut-only store at Mission and 24th, Coco Loco.  This shit is so fresh that there are no photos on Flickr, no Yelp page and no Foursquare venue, so you know it is still authy.  Two delicious coconuts full of milk for $5.   2770 Mission St.

(Hat Tip SF Weekly | Photo by Mission Mission’s Mollie C.)

This art car was found all over the Bay Area in 2005/2006,* including the best street in the entire Mission District, but is merely now a rarely viewed set of Flickr images.  Does anyone know whatever happened to this Lego art car?

* maybe earlier?  Flickr did not exist prior to then.  Mega tears.

(Photo 1 / Photo 2 by gleemie | More Photos at Pt. Reyes)