Mission Mission

So now you can’t sit on the edge of it when there’s a street fair happening and people-watch. Bummer.

Today’s filthy update brought to you as the first installment of the new DOA (Daily Osage Alley) series, previously mentioned here. Stay tuned for more daily doses of innovate couch use, mountains of banana peels, and piles of broken dice from one of the Mission’s lesser known waste strewn alleys.

Fancy! Photos by Dolores Park Works.

Here it is high above the park, coming in for a landing:

Don’t forget, as Ariel mentioned before, the Secret Alley gang is looking for new members.

[via Talent Is An Asset]

Mission Local caught it with its door open just a crack yesterday, and it looks as though it is possibly filled to the brim with a gargantuan pile of trash.

Click through for a closeup.

It’s the one on 22nd Street outside Fabric8.

[via scapegoat]

This project is known as San Francisco Pinball Flippers. They seem to be pretty on top of what’s out there, and they’re quite responsive if you alert them to shortcomings:

[via Satellite Tourist]

Has anyone else ever jumped on the 8x at 6th and Harrison thinking it was like, a 9 or something? I’ve done it twice now, once four years ago and another time yesterday. It immediately starts changing lanes, and then your heart sinks as you realize it’s getting on the freeway. In the end, I made it to my destination (Dear Mom) in about 45 minutes, so it wasn’t too bad. But you can imagine how powerless I felt.

Also, the bus driver laughed at me.

Dang! What a shame! UPDATE: It’s back to normal, thank goodness.

Yet other — some might argue lesser (and surely less grassy) — area parks remain verdant:

Why this is?

[Reader Steve D. submitted this story via our Facebook wall.]