Mission Mission

Geo-gustatory research fellow David Enos has produced a list of BART stations and their corresponding flavor. Wild, right? Here are some good ones:

Fruitvale    Otter Pops

McArthur   Refrigerated Celery

Rockridge    Werther’s Originals

19th Street      Smucker’s Grape

Read on for 24th Street and more.

Note that 16th Street is conspicuously absent from the list. What does 16th Street taste like?

As Apple hasn’t yet dropped $7.5 million, it looks like the current owners of Dolores Park Castle are looking for alternative sources of revenue:

No, sadly not an Arcade Fire show.  Uptown Almanac’s KevMo reports:

I overheard someone mention that there was an upscale open bar at Dolores Park Church.  So I took one look at my tshirt with kittens printed on it and jeans covered in mud, figured that was good enough and rolled.  Now, I’m not really sure what was going on last night, but there were a lot of people wearing suits, cocktail dresses, some bongos, and lots of free Don Julio.

Hey,  if 7500 Googlers got together, they could pool their bonuses and take this place off the market (at a roomy 2 square feet per person).

In an interview with local writer Frances Lefkowitz, Bookslut looks at the divide between rich and poor in the Mission:

You identify many such codes in your book. For example, you say why the lard tub at 826 Valencia in San Francisco makes you feel excluded: “It acts as a litmus test for distinguishing the people who ‘get’ the lard — or act as if they do — from the people who don’t. For the Spanish-speaking moms and kids who live in the neighborhood and walk past the keg to get to their tutoring sessions, lard is not an ironic joke; it’s food.”

Read on for the author’s answer, and for further thoughts on gentrification in the Mission.

Frances Lefkowitz’s memoir is called To Have Not, and reflects on a lifetime of feeling poor.

Why no Apple love in the Mission? You’d think this is something even Chicken John could get behind.

The only question is where? On Mission? Or Valencia? A few proposals:

The Social Security Building / old Hibernia Bank on Valencia and 22nd and Valencia:

Pros: Apple-eqsue architecture
Cons: even longer Boogaloo lines

Dolores Park Castle:

Pros: empty building finally used; good WiFi coverage for the park; nice park to rest in while awaiting Genius Bar appointments
Cons: dark wood beams may conflict with Steve Jobs beech aethsetic; Pottery Barn may attempt to move into Christian Science Church next door

Dolores Park Bathrooms:

Pros: Even better WiFi coverage in DP; safe refuge for Blue Bottle; clean bathrooms
Cons: white Apple logo easily tagged

Please add your suggestions in the comments.

(top photo by Chris Carlsson; Apple logo via Wikipedia)

Here’s a 270º panorama I made of the fire truck climbing and dancing crowd.

(1500 pixel version for those reading in RSS. Click for the full 10,000 pixel version over at Burrito Justice. Sorry if it breaks your Internet.)

And the white-shirt wearing, fist-shaking, last man standing, with blue lights below:

Jesse from Beer & Nosh has more shots of our fire truck roof dancing friends.

At the Giants World Series street afterparty.

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.

Electric guitar rather than acoustic.  Instead of Bum-Jovi, think Hobo Costello.  Swap drunken La Bamba for (even lower-fi) Pixies and Sonic Youth covers.  An Italian deli for a French bistro.

Word on the street is he lives with his dad and once climbed into Lennon’s hotel room.

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.

I was the first Wilson fan. Go Giants!

(thanks for the tip, Mom!)