Mission Mission

[via Emma Silvers' review of Katie Day's new EP]

Here’s the description:

You all have been chatting us up about your fear over the club changing with the influx of new crowds to our hood. We have always been a all good folks welcome kind of local with a soft spot for the underdog. the queers and oddballs of the world. New members of the tribe are welcome. We are making some changes around the club to clarify who we are and Xara has helped us with a fabulous mural out front. We hope you walk up and see yourself in those images and words. We love you all~ Thanks for making us what we are!

[via El Rio on Facebook]

Can someone please teach either a class on being a good BART passenger or a class on not being annoyed by crappy BART passengers?

— Ariel Dovas (@eviloars) June 5, 2014

Grab a scoop of coconut ice cream from Mitchell's Ice Cream and we'd be happy to make a Negroni Float #negroniweek

— Rock Bar (@RockBarSF) June 4, 2014

(Thanks, Nattles!)

I’ve long been against the Don’t call it Frisco thing, mainly because I don’t like rules, and also because I like nicknames and abbreviations.

Today on Thrillist, local treasure Daisy Barringer digs into the history of the issue, and proves we should actually probably all be calling it Frisco all the time. I mean, sorry for the spoiler, but even Herb Caen himself relented, way back in 1977:

It’s okay, you may call it ‘Frisco’ now. The gray-beards, the ones who objected so strenuously and endlessly to the ‘irreverent’ sailor-spawned nickname for San Francsico, are mostly gone now — and so, it must be added is a large part of the city they loved and helped to build, the city that spawned world legends and legions of worshippers.

Suck it, gray-beards!

Read on for a ton of great history and the rest of Daisy’s very compelling argument.

Definitely a new record:

1. Angst in My Pants – Sparks
2. I Don’t Wanna Dance – Eddy Grant
3. Rush – Big Audio Dynamite
4. Another Nail in My Heart – Squeeze
5. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up – Ramones
6. Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
7. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds & Regina Spektor
8. Nasty Habits – Oingo Boingo
9. Musta Got Lost – J. Geils Band
10. Subway Girl – The Audacity
11. All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem
12. Die Die My Darling – Misfits
13. Bang a Gong – T. Rex
14. I’ll Be You – The Replacements
15. Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads
16. Got My Mind Set on You – George Harrison
17. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
18. Jackson – Johnny Cash & June Carter
19. Black or White – Michael Jackson
20. A New England – Billy Bragg
21. My Baby Just Cares for Me – Nina Simone
22. Let’s Dance to Joy Division – The Wombats
23. Shine a Little Love – Electric Light Orchestra
24. In a Big Country – Big Country
25. Centerfold – J. Geils Band
26. Later – Dr. Dog
27. Susanne – Weezer
28. Linoleum – NOFX
29. 1901 – Phoenix
30. Party Hard – Andrew W.K.
31. Real Wild Child – Iggy Pop
32. Little L – Jamiroquai
33. Supersoaker – Kings of Leon
34. Reflektor – Arcade Fire
35. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
36. Bad Is Bad – Huey Lewis and the News
37. Gotta Serve Somebody – Bob Dylan
38. Hot Child in the City – Nick Gilder
39. Take It Easy – The Eagles
40. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
41. Workin’ for the Weekend – Loverboy
42. My Life Would Suck Without You – Kelly Clarkson
43. Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine
44. Juicebox – The Strokes
45. You Only Live Once – The Strokes

The point is, just in case you weren’t aware, you can sing a lot of cool songs at karaoke these days. Support your local karaoke night!

That’s the main thing. Here are some other things I like about Chino:

• They’ve got lumpia, and it is goooood
• The Singapore Slings are really good instead of really bad
• The chicken salad is the bomb
• The dumplings!
• The noodles!
• Their logo is cool
• Super nice staff
• Open late (’til 1 starting tonight I think)
• Perfect volume level; you can be boisterous and not bother anyone
• It’s really fun to order “four Singapore Slings please” over and over
• A server asked how our dinner was and I stood up and did a bootie dance and she was pretty chill with it
• Even the cucumbers they tell you not to eat are actually pretty good

Chino rules!

This week’s “Drink of the Week” is a very special review by the very talented Podboy:

Guess what.

I don’t really want to tell you because I hate it so much I promply tried to forget it. I’ll give you a hint though which is: it is the same amount round as red as it is gross. In case you couldnt guess from those clues I did BUZZ-BALLS. Unluckily even if you guessed right your still wrong because to be honest it was more like BARF-BALLS.

“BUZZ-BALLS RUM-JOB” NAME doesn’t even make sense except unless you count how feeling like drinking it is a STRESSY JOB!

To be honest the strawberry flavor is quite sweet and fresh but the rest of it is very hot on your tounge and barf-like. If I could say one thing to the maker of this it would be you should make it all the way round so it rolls away from me.

Do I reccomend this drink? In fact I DO reccomend this drink. I do reccomend this drink is never drank by a human that is!

Ha! Thanks, Podboy! (Be sure to check out the Podboy archives for some killer X-Files and Walking Dead fanfic too.)

[via Podboy]

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Wait, what? Oh… I just love Natalie‘s dream:

Had this dream in which Mike Keegan built a miniature human robot, but the Roxie was broken into and the robot was stolen, along with one chocolate and one plain beignet.

Whaaaaaaaat! I want this to be a feature-length motion picture! (There’s more, but that was the meat of it.)

[Photo via the Roxie on Facebook]