Mission Mission

This is my favorite new Twitter personality. Based in the Mission, so I’m told:

Think about it: if each of us convinced JUST ONE friend to bike to work, we could all feel better on the drive to work. #psa #awareness

— Wow Throngs (@wowthrongs) January 8, 2014

Parked just down the street from the illustrious Verdi Club. Perhaps if Uber drivers drove these instead of those boring grandpa town cars, I might even be inclined to try them out for once!

Actually, NOPE.

Yesterday we heard about a burrito vending machine and a year old article in Esquire proclaiming El Farolito’s burrito to be the most life changing in America* made the rounds, sparking some inevitable backlash. Today the ol’ HuffPo brings us a video of an amazing burrito cake made by a bakery in Portland** for a wedding.

Watching this makes me hungry and grossed out at the same time. My brain and stomach can’t reconcile what I’m seeing.***

*I would say the super quesadilla suiza is more likely to be life changing. Also, I’m not actually sure how either food changes anyone’s life.

** Artisan Baking Company, name wouldn’t fly in SF because EVERYTHING IS ALREADY ARTISAN.

*** Doesn’t that burrito cake look angry? Like it’s gonna angrily eat you?

[via Emily]

LAist has all the details:

Burritobox has launched “the world’s first burrito kiosk,” as they claim on their website. The first box, which looks pretty much like an orange-colored RedBox kiosk, is sitting at the door front of the 24-hour Mobile gas station at 8380 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood and has been there for a couple of weeks. A second one will be hitting a Century City 76 station come Jan. 18.

Maybe the burritos aren’t nearly as bad as the frozen ones you can find at a 7-Eleven. The company boasts that the ingredients in their 100 percent natural burritos have no hormones or antibiotics, and their breakfast burritos have cage-free eggs. Say what?!

On top of that, the $3 (plus tax) burritos are customizable.The burrito varieties you can choose from include roasted potato with egg and cheese, uncured bacon with egg and cheese, chorizo sausage with egg and cheese, free-range chicken with beans and rice, and shredded beef and cheese, according to the Los Angeles Times.

You can also add sides such as sour cream, Tabasco, and guacamole to your order on the touch screen for an extra fee. After you complete your order, the vending machine plays a music video or ad to entertain you while you wait and then dispenses your burrito within a minute.

Would you try it?

[Via the best blogger in the world, Brock]

[via Phoebe]

As Patti Dillion explains to the Bernal Heights History Project:

This is a photo of the interior of Dolan’s Bar which was at 3311 Mission St from about 1897 to 1919.  The Dolan Bros were:

• William T
• John E – her great grandfather and member of the SFPD
• Michael H – also of the SFPD
• Lawrence J – plumber by trade and elected to the CA State Assembly & Sheriff of San Francisco, appointed Sealer of Weights and Measures (second from the left in the photo)

Says Patti: “I’m wondering if someone has a photo of the exterior of the building from about the same time. I would love to see what it looked like back then.”

Can anyone help her out?

I think they were probably dancing to something like…

[via American Tripps]

Stoop it!

[Photo via Hae Eun]

It’s The Yellow Dress! Here’s the deal:

We’ve been working on our new album, “Faint Music//Ordinary Light” for the better part of a year now, and at last at last it is done! Recorded and mixed to tape at Tiny Telephone Studios and featuring the band in full 8 member formation, we couldn’t be prouder of the results. Come celebrate with us at the Rickshaw Stop, a venue most near and dear to us, Saturday January 4th and delay the crushing cold and darkness of winter one week further.

Featuring:
The newly resurrected Quite Polite (https://www.facebook.com/QuitePolite)
Basement (featuring members of Little Teeth) (http://basementphr.bandcamp.com/)
Watercolor Paintings! (http://watercolorpaintings.bandcamp.com/)
Plus special guests and the most members of the Yellow Dress ever on stage at one time, even our beloved Zoe Rose Palladino!

Advanced tickets are highly encouraged and will come with a free digital download of the album! They can be bought here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/419107/

RSVP and invite your friends!