Mission Mission

From the Dolores Park Pool come these shots by photographer Jason Rosete of athlete Jason Clary tearing the place UP. Badass! (Click either to visit photo page.)

This week on I Heart Street Art, I pretend I commute to the city from Berkeley and say mean things about the Transbay Terminal. Oh and nice things about graffiti, which as we all know is a crime:

I Heart Street Art: Transbay Terminal Tag

kkr ! recommends taking a look at the hottest thing on Tumblr and Flickr today, a hateful map stereotyping the various folks that like to hang out in Dolores Park. See here for the rest of the bile.

whatevsaboutit points us to this golden housing opportunity:

$680 hoarders haven (mission district)

Hello, I am seeking a nice room mate to share my 2 bedroom home.

You won’t have to pay utilities or do any chores so it’s perfect for a young person or a student.

But I cannot have anybody touching or moving my stuff because it would set off a chain reaction of emotions and feelings towards you and towards my things. Hoarding is not a mental illness, it is something environmentally responsible because I don’t like to throw anything away. But the San Francisco Department of public health said my living conditions were unsafe and came in and forcibly removed my things I have been collecting for over 40 years. It traumatized me and I have been rebuilding my collection ever since.

If you are a hoarded this would be a great place because someday, it would be so full of things that we would have to sleep outside. My friend did that in LA but here it might be too cold and the city is very punitive against hoarders and homeless people. Isn’t that ironic? They don’t like homeless people, but they don’t like people with homes either.

Please contact me by email as I am unable to get to the phone right now. I have a phone but it only rings. Once in a while I can get to it but it’s so far away and very hard to get to. If you had a cell phone that would be better.

Link.

Head to 21st at Valencia for all your sidewalk defecation needs.

(Thanks Drew?)

Click for fullsize awesomeness

Plug1 and Plug2 are the subjects of the latest installment in the I Live Here: SF project.  I really want to know Plug1′s pigeon picture turned out.

I Live Here: SF

Tangobaby’s recap

I always knew that art galleries were evil because artists are hippies that vote for democrats, but I never knew that they are one of the reasons the Mission is being gentrified:

Editor – I celebrate the representation of art in all its forms, whether it be in museums, on public walls or in galleries (“Artists take it to the street (Valencia),” Aug. 22). However, it should be noted that it is often the artists and gallery owners who move into low-rent neighborhoods who plant the seeds of gentrification. While the growing number of galleries in the Mission District may be engaging a new audience, high-rent condominiums are being built only blocks away, where bakeries, grocery stores and community centers used to stand. I fear the day when the Mission will have to take a new name because the Latino residents and businesses can no longer afford to stay in the neighborhood they worked so hard to build.

- Rachel Rosenberg, San Francisco

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Maybe people disagree with me, but I think the neighborhood could still keep the name “Mission” even if there were no Latinos, given that it was the Mission back when it was mostly Irish and German.  Oh, and Ohlone slaves initially built the Mission.  Sorry, Rachel.

(hat tip Mission Loc@l)

Our buddy Rachel posed an interesting question just now:

Any theories as to why the mission lacks a walkable farmer’s market? Want. (Not that I don’t adore Alemany. I do.)

I guess theory #1 would be that the people haven’t demanded it. Anyone up for making some demands?

I have to say, that diagonal stretch of Treat where they held Rock Make yesterday was a fun place to browse ironic t-shirt stalls. Might be a fun place to browse organic produce stalls too.

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Chase Bank is feeding you Herbivore for free.  FREE FOOD.  Like Herbivore or not, at least it’s not a cult (although they could be).

(via vegansaurus!)

Bikes and the City points us to this shot from some New York Times thing of a rad bike perched atop Dolores Park. I mean, it’s a great bike and a nice-looking woman, but c’mon: Everything looks good with that skyline in the background, amirite? You could perch a Republic Bike and an obese retard in that spot and it’d make for a striking shot. Still, link.