Mission Mission

I am loving this Choose Your Own Monster comic-thing that DocPop came up with. This design is loosely based on math-whiz Jason Shiga’s mind-bogglingly intricate Choose Your Own Adventure comics.

(click image for the animated version)

Tumblr’er extraordinaire YMFY asks the internet:

If you were the girl dressed up as Groucho Marx Saturday night and you made out with Slimer from Ghostbusters, send me a message. Didn’t even catch your name. You’re new from Portland. I have no shame.

There must have been some serious chemistry there if they were able to collectively get over the gender-bending and general repulsiveness of Slimer. I personally try to avoid making out with ghosts. Ectoplasm stains don’t wash out.

Surely someone knows the mystery Marx sister? Help a bro out.

Update!

Nattles found another dude who fell for “Groucha” Marx on craigslist. This guy didn’t get as far as making out, though. You go Groucha!

Look, it’s a couple of local stoners proving that marijuana use does not negatively impact their productivity or motivation.

Vimeo link.

Forget baseball, this is the face-off we really care about.

Miguel and Victor Escobedo of Papalote went head-to-head with Bobby Flay on his show, Throwdown, back in February. Papalote’s award winning “Triple Threat” burrito was put up against Bobby’s “Green Burrito” (demonstrating Flay’s expert knowledge of how to appeal to San Franciscans).

If you’ve been keeping up with this sort of thing you already know who won, but we wont spoil it for you. The whole episode is on Hulu now. They both stay pretty gracious throughout, but things almost get out of hand when the Escobedo bros lead a “GRINGO” chant against their competitor. See if you can stomach the cheesy stock music and 3-second cuts long enough to see who came out the winner.

Here’s the link.

Thanks to Sally Kuchar from Curbed SF.

The zombies got him. The beer and water is still cold though. Enjoy this offer before rigor mortis sets in.

[via the Tens]

Update!

I can do a pretty good impression of his call, and he kind of sounds like a zombie anyway, so I went with it. I had my zombie walk on, and set out hollering… over and over and over… “Cold beer! Cold Water!” Some people had no idea what was going on, but most people recognized who I was supposed to be. And THREE different people mistook me for the man himself, all saying something like, “Oh, my god! He dressed up for Halloween!” One man was convinced I stole CBCW’s shirt. Ganja Treats took my photo! I sold twelve beers and four waters (though I gave away like half of them). But where was the OG CBCW?

And more at Uptown Almanac.

I totally forgot to post this earlier, but in case you’re on you’re killing time on your iPhone in line at Boogaloos, why not cross your name off the list and head down the street to Porto Franco Art Parlor for their monthly Klezmer brunch? For 6 bucks, you get a kick-ass vegetarian Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditional dishes with a bit of a Russian tinge. Plus, no line.

And you get to see some awesome live Klezmer music courtesy of the Gonifs, featuring members of the Cottontails, Rupa and the April Fishes, and Brass Menazeri.

Porto Franco is in a Victorian flat at 953 Valencia between 20th and 21st. They go until 2pm. If you miss this one, they do this every last Sunday of the month.

Not to be to be outdone, Beretta is getting in on this whole street food thing starting tonight at Fabric8 for their weekly cart meetup from 6-8pm.

Good thing the PizzaHacker wont be there tonight, otherwise there might have been a throwdown likes of which would have put last night’s Mission Bay McDonalds rumble to shame. On the other hand, their dish of choice will be the non-pizza eggplant caponatina with burrata.

This was #56 in the 2009 7×7 100 things to eat before you die, which I was working on before I realized that it had a lot of stuff that was not in the Mission and therefore difficult to work up the motivation to get to. It’s amazing and has impressed at least 3 eggplant haters I’ve known.

Of course, Mountain View. No one throws away half eaten burritos here.

[via Dangerous Minds]

Woah, where am I? The Mission, or Rome?

[more at Mr.EricSir]

First Warhol inspired street art, now this?

Tomorrow night (Tuesday 10/26), a bunch of bay area musicians (including Liz Phair!) are recreating the Velvet Underground & Nico in it’s entirety at Coda Lounge on Mission and 14th.

Here are the confirmed artists:

• Dave Mihaly
• Matt Adams/The Blank Tapes
• Rupa Marya
• Aaron Novik/Sarah Palmer
• Adam Theis/Jazz Mafia/Liz Phair
• The California Honeydrops
• Mark Matos & Os Beaches
• Jugtown Pirates
• Michael Musika
• Charith Premawardhana/Classical Revolution
• Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind)

This will probably be a total shit show. I mean, the musicians that make up these groups alone will probably occupy most of the club to begin with. So if you want in, you’d better score some advance tickets right now here. There will be a 7pm show and a 9pm show.

They are also going to record this entire show and put out a record of it. So if you can’t make it, you’ll still be able to hear it someday. We’ll keep you posted on that as it develops.

More info on the social network.