Mission Mission

Mission Pie‘s brand-new location on the corner of 25th and Mission opened its doors for the first time today. I went there and had the above slice of banana cream pie for breakfast, and it was good. Though the new digs lack the rustic charm of the old, the big windows and comfortable space make up for it. This is going to be a great place to sit and eat and watch the hustle and bustle outside. They’re open until 9pm tonight.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Pie Art

I saw this poster on the Valencia Street Art Wall yesterday. What’s the deal? Guerrilla marketing for an epic comeback tour? I would much rather see The Sonics than the Police or Stone Temple Pilots or something.

Also, this was extra eerie to me because last week we were standing across from Popeye’s and Katie pointed out a poster advertising their new “Boss Sauce”. After that, I sang “Boss Sauce” to the tune of Boss Hoss for daaays.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Valencia Street Art Wall at Midnight

Ad Watch: Meth, Zionism, Oil Addiction and Kitty Cats

Telstar Logistics just added this fine bit of composition to its photostream. House of Brakes can be found here.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Religious Awakening at 16th Street BART?

Last week, Chris told us about a recent trip to Zeitgeist:

Just as the tummy started rumbling asking buy inflatable games to be fed who should show up, but Virginia the Tamale Lady.

Handing out the most delicious tamales as well as a few back rubs while chatting people up, bumming smokes and handing out birthday cards! That’s right next Tuesday the 24th from 7-10 at Zeitgeist they are celebrating her birthday.

That’s tonight! More info here. More Zeitgeist here.

Photo by veen(click to enlarge).

Over at the Free Farm Stand, Tree is floating the idea of taking on an intern:

I like the way City Slicker Farm in West Oakland has interns that help run their program. I am thinking of trying to get cheap inflatable water park a grant to pay a stipend to an intern or apprentice that would help grow food for the farm stand and to learn urban farming at the same time.

Any takers? It’s prime summer internship time, after all.

Link to more on the intern idea, as well as a complete wrap-up of yesterday’s Free Farm Stand festivities.

Link to West Oakland’s City Slicker Farms.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Treat Street Treats

Move over Straw Dogs — I’ve found my new favorite movie!

Friday, after sitting in Dolores Park and gorging on beer and snacks, I felt particularly nostalgic for a 1970s San Francisco movie. I decided to watch a film that I’ve heard about through my father-in-law who lived in the Mission in the ’70s. He always tells the story of how he saw the filming of the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers in North Beach one balmy day (balmy like Friday … dun dun dun!)

Although it was filmed entirely in San Francisco, there’s no sign of the Mission District. Which I wasn’t expecting anyway because most blockbusters that are set in SF don’t really show the Mission. So when I watch a movie set in San Francisco, it feels foreign to me. Does anyone else feel the same?

Anyway, the movie is AWESOME. When it was finished, I walked around the dark apartment, scared that I would hear the pod-piercing scream from the open windows. It also didn’t help that someone was lying in bed, pod-person-like, recuperating from an achey belly.

Also, the film has the most romantic kiss I’ve ever seen. And it’s currently in the free movies section on Comcast OnDemand.

Hmm… this wasn’t in the film, but:

This was by no means the best of ‘em, but all day Katie was marveling at the trippy cloud formations above, one of which looked like a pretty kick-ass donut. Anybody catch anything good?

This heat is really getting to people. Hope no one got hurt.

Weather-beaten guy #1 is being loaded into an ambulance.

Weather-beaten guy #2 is being interrogated by police:

“He wanted a fight. So I socked him up a little, and now my finger’s all broken, and…”

The exhibition is called Spring and by Summer Fall, and it’s been up for a while at Ratio 3 on Stevenson. From the press release:

Ryan McGinley will present new color photographs that chronicle the summer road trips he has taken across the United States in the past three years. Inspired by images from nudist magazines from the 1960s and early 1970s, McGinley places his naked subjects in unusual and breathtaking situations. McGinley uses the vast and varied landscape of the U.S. as his backdrop, from arid deserts to lush green fields. An energetic feeling of idyllic freedom and youthful innocence suffuses the work. Floating bodies suggest an infinite weightlessness while other figures slip into smoke and constellations of fireworks. McGinley’s work offers an intimate glimpse into a playful constructed world of sensuality, adventure, and the sublime.

Link.