Mission Mission

The Fog Bender is just the best at drawing. He’s on Instagram now too, if you’re interested. [link]

I don’t really have any room for it, so, have at it, everybody! Thanks, Amanda!

UPDATE: They’re gone. Sorry. Thanks for playing!

As I came round the front of a fire engine that was blocking the sidewalk, this trio of bins blew clean over, in unison, right at me, as though Loki had just willed them tipped with a wave of his scepter.

Be careful on your walk home, is what I’m saying.

WBTC reports:

[Overheard] at Mr. Pickle’s: Cop in uniform complaining that they don’t carry Doritos. [link]

Looks like Mr. Pickle does not give a shit:

Fuck the police!

(Furthermore, those “Funky Fusion” flavor Dirty Potato Chips they have are way better than Doritos.) (Doritos has the best commercials though.)

Hurts my eyes! But I like it!

[via Mid West Coast]

There’s an effort underway to turn the section of Bartlett between 21st and 22nd — the stretch that’s home to the Mission Community Market on Thursdays — into a more inviting public space. This effort kicked off officially with a community meeting last night, and Mission Local was there:

“We can have fun for a moment with these ideas,” said Jeremy Shaw, Mission Community Market’s executive director.

They can have fun because revitalizing the dejected block on Bartlett from 21st to 22nd Street has potential funding now. Shaw, design group Rebar and CARECEN are working with the developer of the Giant Value site and New Mission Theater on an “in-kind agreement.” Project developers can satisfy their public impact fees by making agreements with community groups that provide public improvements. Shaw and Rebar designer John Bela think they can get $500,000 to revitalize the backside of the new development, Bartlett Street.

Read on.

[via Dolores Park Works]

Because if it is, not cool. (Or I guess it could be our pal KKR? Anyone?) Props on the height though.

Our pal Wesley came upon the unsettling scene:

Suitcase found with 80 severed heads, at 18th and Guerrero. The Mission really is Little Mexico.

Insensitive, Wes!

The Bold Italic just published a big feature on El Rio’s monthly lube wrestling party, with gorgeous photos and astute reportage by our boy Joshua Cobos:

I’ve found myself there on a handful of occasions, slack-jawed and bewildered at sights that made my insides squirm with conflicting emotions. Watching women romp around in red latex, splashing it up in an inflatable pool, is my inner sailor’s dream come true. Add liquor and lube, and that fantasy becomes exhilarating – until, of course, the substances splash toward me, at which time that dream turns into a nightmare.

Read on for lots more pics and analysis.

[via KevMo]