Mission Mission

Basically it tells you a bunch of ways you can live your life, and shows a lot of cool scenes around the Mission, and some mockups of what the complex will look like:

Watch:

[via Curbed SF]

“This place is FUCKED!” It’s a classic Rancid lyric… Angry and joyous at the same time, aimed at the Bay Area, and fun to yell: a classic!

Anyway, you love Rancid, I love Rancid — but we’d love to know more and more and more about the time and place and scene from whence Rancid came. We’d love to dig deeper! Rancid got big fast and moved to Hollywood or something….. but what was happening here in the early days, and how’d it all go down, and what happened later on?? Maybe there was Green Day, maybe Operation Ivy had something to do with it, and maybe Chris Appelgren (of the Bold Italic) ran something called Lookout Records. In any case, we wanna know all about it!

Well, we’re in luck: DJ Trigger Cut is here to help us out. With his exhaustive knowledge of Bay Area punk rock, and his even more exhaustive record collection, DJ Trigger Cut (on the last Tuesday of every month) will educate us and excite us and make us wanna dance a drink and partY!

THIS PLACE IS FUCKED! RSVP and invite your friends! (And hope he plays some Groovie Ghoulies this time!)

[via Ellen Black]

I was walking down the street yesterday, and my friend was telling me a story. As we passed a couple of guys who seemed to be cleaning out a garage, my friend was saying, “Technically–”

One of the guys whirled around and started yelling at us:

“TECHNICALLY?? FUCK TECHNICALLY!!”

“DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO RUB TWO STICKS TOGETHER TO MAKE A FIRE??”

“BULLSHIT! TECHNICALLY, FUCK!”

“DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO START A CAR??”

“FUCK GOOGLE!”

We kept walking. Gotta be careful what you say out there in the Mission.

(Technically, we were on our way to a lavish brunch at Beretta, and my friend was telling me a story about how her parents are having to fight back against a proposal that would allow more public access near their secluded beach house, so.) (But there’s no way that guy could’ve known any of that!) (Fuck Google.)

[Photo of a new BMW parking in front of an old BMW by @muppetnipps]

Karaoke and ping pong are my two favorite things, so I’m very excited about the next few days!

First, DJ Purple‘s regular Thursday night Dance Karaoke party at Slate is tonight:

Second, Singin’ & Pingin’, which combines DJ Purple’s thing with Berlin-style ping pong, returns to Verdi Club on Saturday night:

And lastly, the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League kicks off its winter season this coming Monday, at a very SECRET location:

Comedian Chris Garcia, who once did a standup act almost entirely about the Mission, was on last week’s This American Life! Check it out:

Chris Garcia and his dad were driving home, listening to oldies, sharing a bag of chips. A totally familiar scene for them. They’d driven this route probably hundreds of time, but something odd was happening in the car, so Chris started recording their conversation on his phone. He tells producer Nancy Updike what happened.

Well done, Chris! Listen here.

Also, Chris headlines at Punchline here in SF on December 4th. Get tickets (and see what Robin Williams has to say about him) here.

Just in time for winter, SFist has compiled a list of SF bars with fireplaces. The Mission’s own Homestead made the cut:

While the Homestead’s heat source is actually a cast iron stove, it’ll cure your winter chill just as effectively as anything else on the list. With free peanuts that you’re free to toss on the floor and buxom nude portraits adorning the walls, the place hasn’t changed much in more than 110 years of operation.

Read on for lots more fireplace.

Longtime Mission fixture Isaac Fitzgerald is leaving SF! Like in a couple days! To mark the occasion, local band The Yellow Dress has released a track from their upcoming album, a track called “Isaac Fitzgerald.” And it rules:

And so you take a picture of these two accessories and post them on your blog.

This map, by unbear, is called “fixed it,” so it’s probably based on some other map. Anyway, it’s pretty good but SO MUCH URINE WTF

[via baby ghost]

UPDATE: It’s a Bold Italic map!