Mission Mission

From Mirna at SFPD’s Mission Station:

Please Note:
On Thursday, December 18, 2008 testing of the gunshot recognition/locator system known as “Shotspotter” will take place in the Mission District.  It is anticipated to occur at approximately 9:00 PM and will be occurring at various locations.  The testing will occur in the areas of 18th  St & Mission, 22nd St. & Valencia, 23rd St and Folsom, and 18th St and Bryant.  Please do not hesitate to call 911 if you become aware of suspected gunshot sounds at any other time at those locations.

Tonight at Mission Street Food, the menu is nothing but mashups. So we suggest you mash your dinner plans up with free drinks right across the street at Beauty Bar. Tech blog luminary Sarah Lacy is buying “the first few” hundred dollars worth of drinks served between 5:30 and 7:30pm. (via the Myopenbar.com newsletter)

arlenarlenarlen says:

Bomb squad out front of Salvation Army Rehab on Valencia @ Chavez. Cops in full combat armor.

Link.

Update:

Brock: from ted weinstein, re mission bomb:

Bandloop’s Live music in San Francisco Google Map is my new favorite thing. When I quit riding the bus to work, I also quit picking up free weeklies to read, and since I don’t like scrolling through venue websites on a regular basis, I have consequently found myself outside the live-music loop of late. But this thing is way more fun than scrolling through some ugly website. Problem solved! (via SFist)

Looks like we should all try some Baby Blues Barbecue barbecue. And then maybe have a People’s Donuts donut. Also, Mission Street Food is still going strong.

This is the video for Ash Reiter‘s dancy new single. Anybody catch her at ATA last night?

Our buddy Becca (whom you may remember as the author of such beloved Mission Mission posts as The Phonebooth Actually Very Pleasant Before Dark and Construction Camp on Valencia Street) recently left the Mission for greener pastures. She’s mixing business, pleasure, activism and maybe some higher learning on an extended tour around Central America.

Fortunately, Becca’s documenting her adventure on her blog Travel Maven, Large Jet (I think the title is some sort of travel writer injoke). Yesterday, she talked a bit about a few weeks she spent with an NGO called MayaPedal in Guatemala.

MayaPedal designs and builds “bicycle machines” for use in areas of the world where electricity and mechanization isn’t yet quite freeflowing. Becca got to make hot sauce with the blender bike (!), peanut butter with the mill bike (!), and wash her clothes with the laundry bike! (!!) So like, do you have to get a pro cyclist in there if you want to puree, or your muddy jeans need permanent press, or you don’t like your peanut butter chunky?

She also got to wield a machete. Link.

This morning I was lamenting how we don’t have as much action in the bathrooms category as we used to, and then boom Carlos Reyes posts this highlight from last night’s Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year Party. Nice job, skaters! I like the Bud Light in the shitter where it belongs. See the rest of the party coverage here, and the after party here.

Ice Cream People is one of my favorite blogs. They showcase nothing but fine depictions of various beings made of ice cream. Some are cartoonish, some are eerily lifelike, all are delightful. And today, they posted my submission! Link.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Ice Cream Cone by Protey Temen of Zunge Design.

Hey what’s the official terminology for when two UPS trucks back into each other like this to exchange parcels? Laura wants to know.