Mission Mission

eviloars took a picture of this amazing parking job fail on Capp and 17th:

1. The car is blocking a crosswalk.
2. The car is obstructing a fire hydrant.
3. The trunk light is on so it is questionable if the car will even start without a jump.
4. There is a dryer hanging out the back.
5. UPDATE: The car is a stolen vehicle.

Brittney Gilbert over at Eye on Blogs stumbled across a pretty cool Emotion Map of San Francisco.

Christian Nold, the designer of the project, briefly detailed what went into making the map:

The San Francisco Emotion Map is the culmination of Christian Nold’s five-week residency and participatory art project that involved a total of 98 participants exploring San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood using the Bio Mapping device he invented. During his residency at Southern Exposure, Christian Nold worked in the organization’s Mission Street storefront gallery encouraging visitors to stop by and use the devices during the weekdays and on Saturdays when he conducted intensive workshops. The project invited the public to go for a walk using the device, which records the wearer’s physiological response to their surroundings. The results of these walks are represented on this map using colored dots and participant’s personal annotations. The San Francisco Emotion Map is a collective attempt at creating an emotional portrait of a neighborhood and envisions new tools that allow people to share and interpret their own bio data. (link)

(Credit Eye on Blogs)

Sunday, Dolores Park—Onlookers, drunk off the sweet, sweet nectar of Tecate and Charles Shaw, anxiously await for a juggler to slip up and slice off his arm.

Sunday Streets appears to have been a success. The weather was great and the attendance was certainly high. Burrito Justice and Mission Loc@l have the breakdown in pictures.

Update: Check out Streetsblog’s great coverage of the event.  They are also calling for the event to occur weekly and for the city to extend the hours beyond 10am-2pm.

On an unfortunate side note, reader guero comes to us with news that the city was being a little liberal with towing Mission resident’s cars before the event. He reports that the towing began at 1 A.M–9 hours prior to the start of the event:

Crazy…I live on one of the blocks for this what-not and I swear about 15 tow trucks descended upon the cars still parked on the street. (about 20 minutes ago- some still here). I read the signs and moved my car earlier today but I guess a lot of people didn’t bother. I have to admit, the signs were really flimsy and I’m not surprised that folks missed them. This must be a cash cow for the city and tow trucks. After each vehicle was hooked up, there were officers writing citations before they drove them off.

After hearing about what neighbors had to deal with during Carnaval, you have to wonder why there is not more outcry against the city’s unreasonable actions towards Mission residents during public events.

David Kelso sums up a pretty standard Thursday in the Mission.  Anyone else spot the hit and run on 16th and Valencia?

Update: David sends us an update as to what happened: “Dude skating got hit, slid up the hood and then punched the windscreen. Car sped off with him still on the hood. Fell off after a block.”  Rumor has it that the driver went up onto the curb in an effort to shake the skateboarder off.  The guy was pretty messed up and had to be taken away in an ambulance.  Epic.

Found on 24th and Folson:

This past weekend, Mission High School held a “green prom,” in which students powered the DJ equipment using a bicycle pedal powered stage.  You can see the full photo gallery on Rock The Bike’s flickr account.

Pop’s late on a Sunday afternoon…

One of my favorite activities is reading the #mlnow feed on twitter so I can steal the tips sent to Mission Loc@l and post them here.  Yesterday was a particularly riveting day as Mission Loc@l reporter Armand Emamdjomeh spent the entire day hanging out at the McDonald’s on 24th and Mission.  Here are the highlights:

A little self-deprecation?:

730 am and the place is bustling. Amazed by the people socializing, reading or just…staring. #mlnow (link)

Apparently McDonald’s has some unspoken racial segregation:

Who knew mcdonald’s was such a meeting space? Mexicans, Salvadorans, Chapines, to each their own corner. Quieting down now. #mlnow (link)

Nothing says romance like a nutritious Happy Meal with apple slices:

Two boys just got up the nerve to go sit down w two girls across the restaurant. Godspeed! #mlnow (link)

Ultimately, it sounds like a pretty boring place to hang out.  No surprises there.

Sounds familiar.

vomit cleanup.

Finally, the San Francisco Guardian Angels were on the scene doing absolutely nothing (and getting paid about the same).  This doesn’t even deserve half a paragraph.