Mission Mission

While Golden Gate Park is obviously not in the Mission, this awesome poster was, so I’ll allow it.

SF Zine Fest.  August 22 & 23rd.  11-6.  Zines making out with each other!

It’s almost impossible not to smile as some deranged axe-murdered is swinging his weapon-of-choice into your frontal lobe.

(Thanks Zara! – Found at 24th and York)

Comm Ave.: If people were allowed to leave this much trash on Valencia St., I'm pretty sure the Creme Brulee Man would storm City Hall with a bomb strapped to his chest.

I recently went for a stroll through Boston’s hipster favela, Allston/Brighton, and I could not stop thinking about how goddamn clean the Mission is.  I know people portray the Mission to be one huge dumpster, but have you ever walked around another city?  We at least have weekly street sweeping and the DPW, at a minimum, feigns caring about gum on the sidewalk.  Yeah, Dolores Park can get kind of shitty sometimes, but if you want to have a park where people can get blitzed off practically every substance known to man with very little hassle, don’t expect the guy slurring his words to remember to throw away his box of Mike and Ikes.  Now, I’m going for a walk down Capp st. while tossing styrophone containers in the gutter and pissing on people’s garages.

You could probably unearth fossils between the sand and the cement.

I don't think you'll have a problem.

In other news, Allston/Brighton has some great stencil art.  I took a bunch of pictures, but of course they all look like crap.  This flickr set is way better.

Okay, what did I miss?

“16th street Bart station lock down. Trains not moving, police with rifles everywhere.” (link)

UPDATE: Eve over at the SF Appeal got the low-down.  Apparently there was an attempted assault “in the immediate area” but the suspect fled before the police showed up.

Maybe it was the entire bottle of Charles Shaw that I drank at Dolores Park Movie Nite, but I do appreciate this shark art.

I am also totally psyched about how shitty/awesome the second photo came out. (click photos to enlarge)

Normally I’d call SFPD and get their version, but it’s been a long day and I need to get to bed. Here’s Rhiannon‘s version:

So earlier this afternoon, I was driving west on 17th at from Folsom and I heard a crash, and by the time I got up to Shotwell, a blue car and a silver car were both nose on the curb next to the Gas Station on S. Van Ness, all spewin ‘steam and doors open and smashed bumpers and headlights. This isn’t the exciting part. What is that I nearly ran over this dude, wearing a domestic-abuser-tank-top and khakis, greasy, almost jeri-curl do flowing in the breeze, running to beat the band because THERE WAS A SFPD MOTORCYCLE COP PURSUING HIM. It was insane. There were cars behind me, and I was running late, so I couldn’t stick around and rubber-neck, but have you heard about this? Know what happened? I’m all a-twitter! (but wasn’t at the time, because I was piloting a moving automobile).

Their window sign was hard to photograph with my shitty cameraphone.

Kaleidoscope Free Speech Zone, a new art gallery / small concert venue / place to overthrow the government, has opened a few doors down from Philz at 24th and Folsom.  They are doing some great things, like allowing local artists to show their works, offering up numerous language classes (including sign language.  Haven’t you always wanted to be able to order a tallboy of Tecate with your hands?!?!), pilates classes, and hosting lectures. They even come equipped with a cute dog that naps on the couches. While they don’t seem to have a website, you can holler at them via facebook.

Seat taken.

Whiteboard art for the win.

everyday photos spotted it, and has an explanation here.