Mission Mission

You can retrieve your Aftershox disc on the sidewalk of 23rd St. between Valencia and San Jose.

PHINEAS: You will likely need to burn Jon a new CD.

Daaang.  Joshua writes in with a treatise on Blondies’ Bar & No Grill, Mission bars in gen, and his band Neighbors.  Sometimes these posts just write themselves, people:

have you guys ever been to blondies?

the band Little Wings played there last sunday night, pretty amazing set, for such a small place, they’ve got an amazing sound system. They’re more known for their martinis than the live shows they put on but their promoter, Alex Gallagher has been putting on some big name acts mixed in with local bands that aren’t doing that whole “GARAGE / NOISE” bs, musicians more interested in music than hipsters.

The martinis are amazing though, stuffed olives (ginger / jalapeno / bleu cheese & some other stuff I can’t remember), they use top shelf gins & serve it in a 16oz glass for 11 bucks. Which means you can split it up into two drinks, one for you & one for someone special.

Mainly, I wanted to show you guys this.

that’s the flier for the show being put on by Blondies next

sunday, October 25th.

Ashley, Eden & myself are in the band called Neighbors.

We’ve been playing around lately, Kimos, the Knockout,

last thursday, the Hemlock. Even still, we like Blondies

best, it has the mission feel without any of the pretense that

one might recieve if youwere to say, wear the wrong style

jacket into the Knockout. NO THANKS!!!! you know?

its just a good neighborhood bar, like El Rio.

Whew. Feel free to wear whatever style jacket you want at Blondies’ while slammin back an $11 double.

Thanks for writing in, J! And way to sell an idea. I actually had no idea Blondies’ put on shows.

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how I don’t think the Mission is the dump everyone makes it out to be.  Well, I would like to make a quick amendment to that post: excluding York St., I love how clean the Mission is!

Yeah, York is fucking filthy.

Not completely sure what is going on here but it looks like a good time.

KevMo says we do too many dog posts, but I beg to differ.  Honestly, I think he’s just bummed he wasn’t invited to the….

DOG PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On 29th street, from Don’t Ask Me, I Just Work Here.

2Krill drops some knowledge on the “cool kid” vs. “hipster” debate Allan started way back in the prehistoric days of February:

I call them faggots because that’s what they are. Back in the days we would have called them faggots too or wannabes, fakes, flakes, etc… They try too hard, so we could just call them fail too. There’s nothing cool about being a trendy faggot. Be yourselves, pussies.

(link to the flame-war in-progress)

Looks like some wind FUCKED UP some scaffolding (with a little vehicular collateral damage).

Mission Loc@l has a really long story on it that I didn’t read but I’ll summarize for you here anyways:

1. It was wicked windy in SF last night.
2. Some construction crew did not properly secure the scaffolding to the building
3. Wind knocked over some scaffolding
4. One of the car owners is really pissed off this happened
5. The other car owner could not be reached for comment
6. The people renting the building said they heard a noise and then noticed there was wood everywhere.  ”We were, like, shit!  That doesn’t look right!”
7. Spelling mistake
8. A spokeswoman for the construction company apologizes for the incident, blames the wind, says this type of stuff happens a lot in places like Chicago
9. A visibly still drunk worker mentions that he was out with his friends when he got the call to come pick stuff up
10. Workers get mad overtime pay
11. Company + insurance has to replace the vehicles
12. …
13. Profit!

Was I right?

(Link | Photo Mission Loc@l)

The fine folks at Dog Eared Books have spoken up!  Here’s what they have to say in response to all the bedbug shenanigans:

The message over here has been received and as a public service we have now disposed of our big old red couch and cushioned chair. New furniture will be arriving soon. We will miss you old furniture but alas this day had to come. If you could spread this word that people need not fear that too would be rad.

You heard ‘em, Annie G!  Go on and finish Twilight in a brand new La-Z-Boy!

Ew!  Check out this li’l testimonial I came across in the Yelp Talk section (jk, totally don’t hang out there) from Yelper Annie G:

This is for Mission residents/used book shoppers/ general word of caution–

I was in Dog Eared Books on Valencia yesterday afternoon reading in the armchair there and definitely picked up some painful bed bug bites all over the parts of my body that were in contact with the chair’s fabric.

Not posting this to rag on them in any way–I love that bookstore and go there all the time. I let them know, and just want to warn people because bed bug infestations are seriously bad news and can devastate furniture/buildings.

I’ve spent the day DIY fumigating my house and wanted to warn others….please avoid that place at least for the next few days until they get rid of that furniture!

Shitty, right?  Though I bet “DIY fumigating” means she bought a bottle of Febreze.

What book do you think Annie G was reading all afternoon?  Was it Twilight?

Something I am amazed worked out: this guy climbed nearly to the top of a tree in Dolores Park, had his friend toss him up a glass bottle of Red Stripe, caught it, and proceeded to drink it.  Bad ass.

I hope he didn’t die trying to get down.

Also, doesn’t this other guy climbing the tree remind you of the kid from Bad Santa?