Mission Mission

It’s been pretty epic lately.

[via Drew]

Pi Bar apparently has this beer in stock. It’s called Omer, just like everybody’s favorite Tourettic Valencia Street street musician. Perhaps Pi Bar (also on Valencia Street) should put together some sort of promotional event where they have Omer on special and a performance by Omer! That I’d like to see. That I would RSVP to on Facebook in a second, and actually attend.

Also, traditional blond? Our Omer is certainly not a traditional blond. Here he is doing a “kickass cover song”:

It’s this new single “Hoop of Love” by local band Dominant Legs (pictured). The Bay Bridged wrote about it a few weeks back and I’ve listened to it multiple times every day since. It sounds unlike anything else out there I think. It’s happy and weird. It’s the feel-good hit of the summer. Read about it and listen to it here.

Dominant Legs play the Independent tonight in support of Real Estate, and it appears tickets are still available.

Well, this has been a dream of mine for a couple years now. The first time I played ping pong in Berlin, my mind was blown and I chanted for weeks and months, “WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THIS IN SAN FRANCISCO???”

Now we do. It’s a party called American Tripps and it debuts the first two Fridays in August. Here’s how it works:

It starts mellow, everybody strolling around the table, drinks in hand, possibly movin’ to the music, getting to know the people next to you in the circle. And as people mess up and the ranks dwindle, the action gets serious:

But not too serious. It’s all in good fun. It’s fun to watch, it’s fun to hang out. It’s fun. It’s the best! RSVP and invite your friends HERE.

Why “American Tripps”? Last summer I played a bunch at this place called Sportklause on Glogauer Straße, but they had some leftover signage from when the space was a travel agency catering to immigrants from the Balkan Peninsula.

So we called it “Balkan Tripps” because that was more fun to say.

Fog and Laser was a blast as usual. Over the weekend they published an album of laser portraits taken at the event. Here are some highlights:

The full album (with 174 more portraits) is here.

Our pal Jacob did some digging, based on questions raised last week:

The contractors that were there said it’s due to open next week. The circuits for the ovens broke or else they would have opened this week.

No one was aware of a name change – the mystery continues.

What!

Check out the place’s new interior here.

[Original photo via Bernalwood]

Reader Chris T. came across these scenes on Capp Street this morning, one at 25th and the other all the way up at 16th. What the?

Rocky knows what’s up.

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Mildred strikes again [link].