Mission Mission

It happens every year, all over. Reader Ross S. sends us this video he shot of some folks burning a tree in the street. (Thanks Ross!)

He also suggests that:

[A] public service announcement regarding when it is ok to burn things in the street (world series win) and when it isn’t (any other time) is in order.

That does sound helpful. When is it okay to burn things in the street? Though this seems a lot safer than burning a mattress in a crowd of hundreds of drunkenly excited fans. It’s probably never “okay”, if you’re really talking about a PSA, but you’ll do it anyway, so it’s always good to be safe while performing illegal acts of anarchy. Anyway, I always thought the beach was the spot to take all of the old Christmas trees. Stack ‘em up and build a super tree. Or just join Danger Ranger. (whoever that is)

One thing we should definitely avoid is leaving a burning tree on someone’s doorstep.

I’d like to also take this opportunity to wonder aloud about shooting video portrait-style, instead of landscape. I know we watch this stuff on our computers, and not the TV, but media still tends to be oriented wider rather than taller. I don’t think anyone prefers the pillarboxed look (seen above), yet people do tend to shoot this way with their phones. Do we need to make room for the long and narrow format? Or should we make people feel stupid so they conform to the old standards?

I don’t mean to poke fun. Stolen Pakes is serious business.

[via Box Dog Bikes]

Happening now, according to the real Nick Fisher.

Nick Fisher, obviously)

UPDATE: More pics from Nick. And he adds: “Officer involved shooting @ Garfield Park. Two men hospitalized, pretty sure neither were cops”

(photo by NVJ/The Secret Alley)
We heard the shots and then some of us saw an African American man with a mustache lying on the ground who had been shot in the head and in the chest. CPR was administered, but it was too late.

Mission Local has more.

Please be safe out there.

Eater SF tells us the story of a dude in Sacramento who got all bent out of shape because his Whopper receipt said a swear word. And got a bunch of people fired. Bummer!

But don’t blame Sacramento. Sacramento was, after all, where I witnessed the lo-fi indie rock cover of Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You.”

It’s only fair, right?

I mean, maybe not. Government watchdog Generic took a tasty look yesterday at San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s stand on the FDA’s bummer ruling. It concludes with:

Denny, you come for my Irish Coffees and I won’t rest until you’re run out of town.

But you should read the whole thing.

[Photo by tayzenberg]

Bummer!

Previously:

‘The Next KKKatie’ Just a Levi’s Marketing Tool?

Is This Girl the Next KKKatie?

Jeez, I wonder if something like this might’ve been going on at that Dolores Park Cuddle-In or whatever over the weekend. Check your wallets, people.

[Photo by tripleawesome]

P.S. Who wants to start a band called Hugger Muggers with me?

No more virtual Four Loko parties with our pals on the east coast

Daily Intel has the full story right here. Will SF be next?

Bold and brazen, she wasn’t fazed in the slightest by my photographic documentation of her criminal act.

Should I have stopped her?

UPDATE: Several of you have requested that I remove “Tubby” from the title, so in the interest of preventing a civil war on the server, I have acquiesced.  I’m not saying I agree with the morality police, and I’m probably still a jerk for posting it in the first place.  These facts remain despite the update.  I must say though that I don’t find it “hateful” (a very strong word) to call someone (who is spraying one of the ugliest tags I’ve ever seen–on my street no less)  “tubby” in a photograph where she can’t be identified (back to the camera).

Please continue to discuss in the comments; the ability of our readers to engage in rational discourse is my favorite part of this blog.