Mission Mission

For those of you who love drinking free beer at Sports Basement while you feign buying something, be sure to check out their 2nd Annual Block Party on tomorrow:

Come celebrate our second year in the Old Hamm’s Brewery Building. The party runs from 12-6pm at the Sports Basement on Bryant Street. We’re closing 15th Street for the celebration. It’ll be fun for the whole family…..Food, Drinks, Games, Tattoos, Beer Garden and Live Music. Attached is flyer with a line up of events. All funds raised for the day will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of SF. Bring your friends, neighbors, and co workers…it’s open to the public.

Finally, someone has come to the Mission with a message of truth.  According to SF Weekly’s The Snitch, someone, or something, was leaving DVD’s of The Obama Deception on the windshields of neighborhood cars Thursday night.  Good thing!  Prior to the other night, I am not sure anyone in the Mission realized that we were taken for pawns in the 2008 election, that Wall St. engineered the depression to “repossess the country,” Obama is merely a frontman for the financial elite, he wants a civilian national security force to militarize the country, and Obama shares Hitler’s socialistic and nationalistic ambitions.

Be sure to watch the trailer for the obligatory footage to Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

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Additional Reading:

• Obamanati.info: Beware of the Obamanati

Laura emails us suggesting that Mission Pie inaugurated a new mural today.  Anyone have the details?

Actually, this Saturday night (tomorrow), they’re going by Mission Stoned Food, and the menu, by guest chef Chris Ying, does something heretofore unprecedented in modern Mission cuisine — it brings together foie and Funyun.

It does lots more too. I personally plan to get as loaded as I’ve ever been and then shovel three orders of the Cypress Grove goat milk nacho cheese with hash browns into my face. For dessert, TERRINE OF CANDY BARS.

Read all about it.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

In case you did not hear already, a cacophony of street foodies and street musicians are gathering tonight at 7:30 in the Mission to help lonely San Franciscians get fat and laid.  Vegansaurus! is reporting that the gathering will be at Linda and 19th, the very same location that Sexy Soup Cart was shut down out at a few weeks back.  This either makes the party a noble act of civil disobedience or a stupid way to get noticed by the police… again.

Cue the Mission Mission dead pool on tonight’s extravaganza.  When will this event get killed and who will be going to jail?  (View the full post to vote)

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According to multiple witnesses on the scene, a male in the white SUV (pictured below) was speeding away from an accident at Capp and 25th when he slammed into 4 vehicles at 23rd.  Allegedly, after he crashed into the first vehicle, he proceeded to back his truck up and speed off going north on Capp.  After hitting a green light at 24th, he spotted a police cruiser and opted to blow through the intersection at 23rd St (in an attempt to evade the officer?).  The red SUV, attempting to avoid him, hit the side of his vehicle and then slammed into a telephone pole.  This caused the white SUV to lose control and go right into a parked BMW sedan, resulting in the SUV flipping through the air and landing on front of the hood of another parked sedan.

Yeah, it’s a cat. He’s cute and partially blind and very dependent on his brother, from whom he’s been separated, by thieves. Keep your eyes peeled.

Full press release after the jump:

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At the new market at 18th and Mission.

A reader, Joe, sends in this thrilling tale of being held-up at gunpoint on Harrison:

Last night my friend and I had the pure joy of being held-up at gunpoint, and it went a little something like this:

- Around 1am in a car at 22nd and Harrison, we get a tap on the driver-side window from the gun barrel of our new acquaintance, his best buddies presents themselves on the passenger side… 3 black males, early to mid 20s, dressed kinda like diamond thieves (all black heavy jackets and ski caps)

- Without any commotion or raised voices, we open the door and proceed to quietly and casually present them with our personal effects… (her purse & phone, my wallet)

- They take off behind us, I proceed to call the cops as we drive away…

Now, for some reason I defaulted by calling the general number for SF Police -who then instructs me to call 911, which then disconnects me twice. Marvelous.

I call back the general number and insist on having them provide dispatch since calling 911 was a world of fail. In less than 2 minutes a few cruisers show up to take things from there.

Goodtimes indeed.

The SFPD Public Affairs Office had no knowledge of any problem with the 911 system.

Going up right this second, says our girl on the scene Amandine C. Looks like it’s gonna be a good one!

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