Mission Mission

Don’t freak out.

Although it’s still not as hot a look as rocking a Cyclops ping pong paddle.

[via Vic]

P.S. Bring your paddles, X-Men-themed or otherwise, to Saturday night’s Berlin-style ping pong party in the Lower Haight! RSVP here for FREE BEER!

UPDATE: Thanks for the lasers, Beau!

Peep Pal’s anniversary menu, full of contributions from Pal’s best pals:

Guest Chef Carlo Espinas from Comstock brings his rabbi pate terrine banh mi w/ ginger-pepper sauce, cucumber, River Dog farm pickled carrot-daikon, cilantro, jalapeno, mayo/Acme torpedo roll

Our original Pal Dave Knopp makes his coffee-rubbed and smoked Marin Sun Farm pulled pork on Acme roll w/ creamy slaw and Dave’s BBQ sauce

Bread populist Josey Baker gives us his 3-seed sourdough bread on our Aleppo-maple roasted turkey breast w/ Fromage D’Affinois, Richie from Hapa Ramen’s meyer lemon mostarda, black olive, wild arugla-mei choi greens
spring garlic mayo

There’s the usual veggie sandwich too, plus Kate’s Toffee Crack for dessert, and you can always grab one of their special TV dinners!

I love the trippy foreshortening, like it’s dreamed Dolores instead of real Dolores. It’s supposed to be like 80 degrees this weekend btw. Can’t wait!

[via SashaEmily]

I can’t say for sure who this Nick Fisher character is (but one wonders if possibly he’s the Nick Fisher from the New Twitter #space video or the Nick Fisher from our Dr. Teeth Death Sauce movie), but he’s either a genius or a real sicko or a real sicko genius.

Reader TJ posed the question in the comments section of yesterday’s post about international pop star Gotye winning it all at a pub quiz in the Tenderloin a couple days ago.

So how about it? I’ve heard good things about Shotwell’s and the Sycamore.

[Photo by Jordan]

All Shook Down reports, via tipster:

So last night @ trivia this nerdy dude comes in and proceeds to answer every question right. I’m like who the fuck is this genius? We get to talking and he tells me he’s Wally and we end up chatting about old exotica and new wave records. This guy had an encyclopedic knowledge of music and was as cool as fuck. Turns out it was international pop star GOTYE!

Dang. Read on for more story and more pics. And be sure to go see Gotye tonight at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. (He was scheduled to play the Independent until demand necessitated that they move the show to an exponentially larger venue.)

Reader Marcus I. spotted this very strange collab between network television and drugs.

To commemorate that today is the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, Muni released a batch of never-before-seen photography from the aftermath. Three are set in the Mission.

Above is an almost totally incinerated street car on Guerrero Street, with the ruins of the Mission in the background. Below are scenes from Howard Street. (Now it’s known as South Van Ness, but it used to be Howard.)

[via Haighteration]

First they vandalized other artists’ work, now they’ve moved on to vandalizing federal property. A bold crew, this bunch of vegans.