Mission Mission

[Photo by @bdonohoe via The SF Kid]

Awesome! The first time I ever saw Thee Oh Sees in San Francisco was at Potrero del Sol, at some kind of premiere for some kind of movie about surfing. It was awesome, and they’re always great outdoors, so this is going to be killer! (YACHT rules too! And don’t even get me started on B. Hamilton.)

Here are some ticketing details courtesy of The Bay Bridged:

Tickets are on sale right now, with a limited number of discount six-packs available (save $5 per ticket by grabbing six for you and your friends). VIP tickets are also available, which include access to a shaded viewing area for the main stage, drink tickets, VIP bathrooms, and a tour of Tiny Telephone Recording led by John Vanderslice.

Cool!

Got a quick tip from bartender David:

New Menu release party on Monday the 13th of May, 7pm-2am! We’re gonna do discounted drinks and some snacks and the more the merrier.

See y’all there!

We hope to have a burger ready this week!

— Say Ray’s (@RheasDeli) May 13, 2013

This is a still from a Vine by our pal Jeff Seal, who will be doing seven minutes of standup at the Dark Room on Wednesday. Jeff is gonna be in town to attend a wedding, a wedding which is the theme of the following podcast. (Also, watch the Vine in its entirety after the jump.)

Discussed:

• Old 97’s
• Port Costa
• Friendster
• Red’s Java House
• Clump of fried false eyelashes
• Panko
• Swedish American Hall
• Mother’s Day
• Cafe du Nord
• Readyville
• Spotify/Pandora/AMI Internet Jukeboxes
• Comedian Jeff Seal
• Miming
• Clown school
• Vine
• Converse All-Stars
• Club Deluxe
• Comedian Sean Keane
• The Business
• The Dark Room/Balazo/Mission Records
• Haunted brothel
• Strippers
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• Ghostbusters
• The Hi-Dive
• Ping pong/Ping Pong Gallery in the Dogpatch/Joey Piziali
• Non-alcoholic beers
• The Bay Bridge Lights and how long they’ll be there
• Warriors’ new arena
• “San Francisco Warriors”
• The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
• Burgers/cheeseburgers/fries at Red’s Java House
• Girls (band)
• Hot girls from Santa Rosa
• People from Florida
• Rent is too high
• Josh Yule
• Thee Oh Sees
• “Naked, Spitting, Pissing Dude”
• Butts
• The splits
• The Ferocious Few
• Unhinged woman in the park
• Quevanzhane Wallis
• Unfit mothers
• Child Protective Services
• Chris Brown
• The Mint
• The Tenderloin
• Podcasts

(more…)

Watch:

What a move!

What a photo!

Wow!

UPDATE: Bianca on our Facebook timeline gives us a more complete version of the story…

Wasn’t that “amusing” as you are despicting it. Just saying. Just left 16 and Mission Bart station and as I was approching the ticket exit, a completely naked man with his penis hard was backing a woman coming from work I assume against a wall and he threw her down to the ground. Someone tried to stop him and he ended up throwing the guy to the ground and then got on the ticket exit/entrance thing and squatted over for everyone to see his anus and then and then and then….. the point is that no one could control the situation and then he started going after an older man and had him by the neck. He was obviously on PCP since he was so strong and out of it ( i think???)) wtf! Everyone ran out and no one could help. I heard “the police were on their way” but we all ended up getting out of there. I didn’t stick around. Thank god my kids weren’t with me. Sad world and fucked up people. Fuck 16th/Mission Bart. At your own risk!

Apologies for taking the wrong tone.

[Photo by Marc Huestis via The Bold Italic on Facebook]

You might remember her from when she had lots to say about the temporary Levi’s popup on Valencia about three years back. Later, we suspected that she might have been part of a very elaborate and insidious Levi’s marketing ploy. (So maybe Betabrand hired the same marketing team? jk)

This morning she made an announcement on Twitter (and her Twitter remains tremendously engaging):

She’s right about the new Boards of Canada though, am I right?

Anyway, the thing is, she used some kind of gnarly etching cream that’s so dangerous she elected to also put up a homemade — and bilingual — warning sign:

How thoughtful!

This afternoon, Jefferson from Mission Bicycles, Betabrand’s neighbor, sent in all of these pics and filled us in on what Betabrand is exactly:

Who is Betabrand? (Hint: they are not owned by Liz Claiborne). The owner, Chris Lindland has lived here in San Francisco for 17 years. He started his company in the basement. In my opinion, here’s that makes them remarkable: They have not outsourced production to China, Bangladesh, or Potugal. They are not made in the USA. It’s made in San Francisco. They are local makers. The money stays here. They employe about 100 blue and white collar San Franciscans.

They are relocating their operation from Cesar Chaves to Valencia. Adding a retail space so their customers can come in and try stuff on and have a human interaction.

Sounds fine to me.

Here’s the finished piece:

Messed up: Betabrand, a SF clothing company, is supposed to open a store on Valencia St. tomorrow. Then, this: twitter.com/mgrooves/statu…

— Matt Graves (@mgrooves) May 10, 2013

And here’s a crew cleaning up the mess today:

Trick Dog Beardy Guy – w4m – 29 (mission district)

We chatted about taxi apps and then my friend summoned me quickly, into a cab. I wanted to stay for that drink!

Aww!

[via Missed Connections]

Pretty much the same as it always was, but now there’s a wraparound glass windscreen, really fancy Australian heat lamps, and solid menus of Latin street food and serious cocktails. New era!

El Techo de Lolinda opens to the public May 13th!