Mission Mission

Guy on bus, your Ferrari fanny pack fails to convince me you have a Ferrari at home.

— TK (@40goingon28) July 31, 2013

American Tripps, the ping pong party that got its start right here in the Mission, is celebrating its 2-year anniversary this weekend! Here’s the deal:

The first weekend in August marks our 2-year anniversary of throwing Berlin-style ping pong parties in San Francisco, so we wanted to do something big to celebrate. Then we caught wind of North American Scum, the acclaimed LCD Soundsystem cover band based here in SF, and we figured it’d be awesome to book them and use the occasion to pit LCD against Daft Punk, their mentors — and current kings of the airwaves.

So: dance party, DJs, live band, Berlin-style ping pong, drinks, food truck out front, foosball and skeeball upstairs in the mezzanine.

Sounds awesome! LCD Soundsystem rules! RSVP and invite your friends!

To win a pair of tickets, relay your best LCD Soundsystem- or Daft Punk-related anecdote in the comments sections below. Winner will be decided based on merit. Contest ends Friday at noon.

Probably the best part about having an actual brick & mortar shop instead of a mere food cart is the ability to finally have an on-site diaper-changing station.  In case you were wondering where the caramel comes from…

(Thanks peoplemagicloveorangerubberglove!)

Better view after the jump…

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Personally, I prefer to travel via dinosaur or warp whistle.

[via Joshing Uno, prints available!]

Shut down by park ranger in Dolores Park. Reasons given: not allowed to tie things to trees, it hurts the trees, and palm leaves are falling

— Sf slackline (@Sfslackline) July 27, 2013

[via Dolores Park Works]

In response to the news of the production of the new ape movie in North Beach, Christopher Forsley shared a piece on our Facebook page where he tells of spending a sunny day watching all the apes movies to date, and fearing an actual ape attack in San Francisco:

I laughed until the childish and trite political commentary steaming off those piece of shit flicks knocked me out with a smell so disturbingly thought provoking that I couldn’t help but ask questions about the state of American culture – questions like this: When did our nation regress to the point that our intellectual cravings are satisfied by generic, diluted, substance-lacking yarns like the Planet of the Apes flicks?

Read on.

Scenes from set- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. #film #sf #set #sanfrancisco pic.twitter.com/rR91bvyoWZ

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Our “Apes”. #film #sf #sanfrancisco #PlanetOfTheApes pic.twitter.com/le4O8vpZSN

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Great shot! RT @AlexSavidge: North Beach looks like a disaster. Luckily it’s Hollywood magic, filming scenes pic.twitter.com/3x41d9NI4y”

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Meanwhile, the reviews are coming in for Blue Jasmine.

Cool short video piece by local filmmaker Bradley Tangonan. Tight editing.

Here’s the schedule, courtesy of Virgil’s on Facebook:

• Pop Up food by HELLA VEGAN EATS 7pm
• A one-time only GIVEAWAY of Virgil’s totes screen printed by KELLY MALONE (Workshop SF, Indiemart) 10pm
• A photobooth created by JORGE P (Hard French) with glamour shots care of SHOT IN THE CITY 9pm

Plus DJs Matrixxmann and Wam Bam Ashleyanne!!! RSVP and invite your friends!

UPDATE: Here’s a sneak peek courtesy of Tom:

What sort of mischief might this trio be up to? Whatever they encounter, at least they can count on Hummer support for backup.