Mission Mission

From Mission Connections:

24th and Mission crotch staring – m4w (mission district)

You were crossing 24th street at about 6pm wenesday night.<19th. You walked at an angle directly toward me. Me a tallish older black male in fitted jeans grey sports coat knit cap talking on cell next to tree.At first you looked directly into my eyes and as you got closer you gave my crotch a long hard stare and then you were pass me. Want to stare some more? Reply with descriptiion. You were dressed boyish with a short boyish hair cut. Tell me your height approimately and color of your slacks. [link]

“Want to stare some more?”

It’s in the same building as Mission Bicycle, behind a locked door. To open the door, you have to check in using Foursquare or Instagram. (Or just ring the doorbell, I guess.) The door opens, you go inside, up a flight of stairs, and then you’re in Photojojo‘s secret store surrounded by lots of great gifts for the pro and amateur photographers and photography enthusiasts in your life.

[Photo by Photojojo]

Quite a format! Not sure anything like this has ever been done before. Here’s the lineup:

Caitlin Gill
Casey Ley
Kevin Camia
Ben Feldman
Shanti Charan
Kaseem Bentley
Sean Keane
Natasha Muse
Mike Drucker
Dave Thomason
Brendan Lynch
Joe Gorman
Anna Seregina
Jules Posner
Colleen Watson
Kevin O’Shea
Josef Anolin
Mary Van Note
Jesse Fernandez
Kevin Munroe
David Gborie
Joey Devine
Jesse Elias
Lydia Popovich
Red Scott
Andrew Holmgren
Juan Medina
Matt Gubser
George Chen
Clare O’Kane
Greg Asdourian
Rajeev Dhar
Kristee Ono
Drew Harmon
James Fluty
OJ Patterson
Kate Willett
Cameron Vannini
Kollin Holtz
Land Smith

Advance tickets here.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Surprise! You don’t buy a carton of eggnog!

Our pal Eric (as part of his beautifully shot, edited and scored Thirsty For… series) shows us how it’s really done:

Holiday cheer! This will likely be the holiday party to end ‘em all! Here’s the deal:

The first SINGIN’ & PINGIN’ was the most fun anyone had ever had in the history of ever, so you’re darn right we’re doing it again! And we’re making it our official holiday party!!

DJ Purple (http://djpurple.com/) is an award-winning performer, and his DANCE KARAOKE parties are the stuff of legend.

We’ll have two ping pong tables for plenty of Berlin-style action, as well as foosball and skeeball in the mezzanine, drink specials, lots of dance floor, karaoke lyrics up on the big screen, and a handful of cozy rickshaws for cuddlin’.

RSVP and invite your friends! (And then peep DJ Purple’s songbook and get a-practicin’!)

Pics of the epic Singin’ & Pingin 1 right here if you wanna see what you’re in for.

I still don’t get it.

(Follow Lindsey and Mission Mission on Twitter for more of the same.)

What better place to ring in 2013 than at one of the best new places to open in 2012? Plus, Sommer from Mission Bowling Club tells us this is the first time they’re able to stay open ’til 2am, so do take advantage of that! Bowl the night away!!!

Get tickets here!

Last minute gift idea! Our pal Cleveland Motley recently launched his very own bag business, Motley Goods, based right here in the Mission. Everything’s handmade by Cleveland, and the star of the show seems to be the “Weekender”:

Our medium roll-top backpack.

The Weekender, trimmed in leather is a great do-it-all bag.

Designed to be small and refined enough to take to work, yet large enough to be your ticket out of town.

Its heavy-duty waterproof Cordura nylon exterior and separate waterproof vinyl liner combine with leather trim to become a modern design and rugged utilitarian tool.

18″ x 12″ x 6.5″ give the Weekender 23L of internal capacity.

Three large external pockets

Optional 17″ padded laptop sleeve

One 6-inch velcro closed internal pocket

Thick foam back pad

Leather straps, choice of leather or nylon trim

Cordura exterior fabric – available in six colors

Heavy vinyl liner

Secondary Velcro roll top closure

Boom. Our other pal Nattles wore it around for just a couple of days and got hammered with compliments the whole time, presumably because it looks both gorgeous and like serious business. The rolltop on top and a healthy amount of velcro throughout ensure everything stays nice and dry, and the leather straps and trim ensure you look dope.

See the official Weekender page (with more pics of the bag in more colors) here. Or check out the rest of the Motley catalog (which includes a huge backpack, a basket bag, a pannier/backpack, and a satchel) here.

Here it is in action:

Yum, that sandwich was damn good! As usual! And now Pal’s needs our help! Their existing space can’t sustain them any longer, so they’ve started up a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their move to some place better:

Pal’s is moving into its fourth year inside Tony’s market on 24th St making friends with everyone in the surrounding neighborhood and serving all organic locally sourced innovative sandwich and salad creations.

We have been blessed by having the best and most loyal customers a small local shop could have..our goal has always been to use the best local products in our little bread-surrounded creations

Your inspiration, suggestions, interest and recurring support drive us every day to create new and tasty things to help make your lunch day a little brighter and a little tastier.

Now after almost 4 years inside Tony’s market we have outgrown our current location and we need to move to a new location sometime in February or March of next year. so we can take Pal’s to a new creative level.

Visit the Kickstarter page to see how you can help (mostly you pledge money and they pledge to give you sandwiches and t-shirts). And there’s only a couple days left, so hop to it!