Mission Mission

Noise Pop 2012 is here! And they’ve asked us to sponsor this show at Cafe du Nord starring Young Prisms, Melted Toys, Tambo Rays and PreTeen on Wednesday, February 22nd. Which means we get to give away some tickets!

Young Prisms seem to be a pretty fun band, as evidenced by the above random images from their Tumblr. Let’s try their music:

Also good! Now let’s see about Melted Toys. Courtesy of their Twitter, more great random images:

And some enjoyable music as well:

Buy tickets here. Or to win, tell us why you should win in the comments below. Two winners will be chosen based on merit, and will receive a pair of tickets each. Contest ends on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 5PM.

What’s with people and their toys at Flour + Water? First there was that iPad tennis thing, and now Beth Spotswood shares the story of some ladies at the communal table accosting her and her friends with memes on an iPhone:

The photo was of a little Asian boy. And across his forehead were the letter, “HERRO.” Big Chris, who is half-Asian, politely laughed. He doesn’t give a shit. And Brittney, who was the farthest away, couldn’t really even see. But I did not politely laugh. I said, “I never thought I’d see someone show a stranger a racist photo at flour + water!”

One of the women said, “It’s okay, I’m half Korean!”

What’s with people? Read on.

Don’t forget, as Ariel mentioned before, the Secret Alley gang is looking for new members.

[via Talent Is An Asset]

Found atop of a pile of discarded junk on York Street. Who this is?

Let’s take a closer look:

For a $15 donation, you’re guaranteed a copy of the final product. Plus, according to the Kickstarter page:

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I love this band. Don’t forget, you can still download a digital copy of the record for free.

Reasons to love rosemary:

1. It smells amazing
2. It tastes great
3. It grows all over the Mission so you never have to buy it
4. Picking it makes you feel like you are getting back to the land in a pioneery sort of way/ winning at Oregon Trail. Pick rosemary when your oxen are drying off after fording the river!

Personally I prefer to borrow rosemary from the Friends School on Valencia between 14th and Duboce, but if you go for a short walk, you should be able to find tons of ample-sized bushes at a theater near you.

Blend some culled rosemary with a few other ingredients and you have a gorgeous pesto that would give Bi-Rite a run for their money.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup firmly packed rosemary (1 handful 4-6” sprigs)
• ½ cup walnuts (traditional pesto uses pine nuts but those are expensive!)
• 1 cup firmly packed basil
• Juice of 1 lemon (about ¼ cup)
• ¼ cup olive oil
• ¼ cup water
• Salt to taste

Blend ingredients in your blender! Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy, as my friend Liz from New Zealand says. It will only take a second, and then you’ll have a sauce that will fancify anything from pizza to salad to burritos, and is equally good on vegan and omnivorous dishes.

Okay, now let’s all promise that our future-tense selves will plant rosemary bushes in front of our houses to karmically absolve our present-tense selves. Pinky-swear?

[via Penelope Popsicle]

Last Renaissance explains:

16th street is the new haight street [link]

It’s like a Long Island Iced Tea but also contains Hennessy and Sprite. Tastes like Oakland!

Its origins date back to last night at Dear Mom, inspired by guest bartender Devon’s custom Mad Libs (as filled out by our pal Lindsey), and ultimately created by non-guest bartender Oliver. We also consulted noted Oakland celebrity Ryan Christopher Parks, but he wasn’t much help:

(Special thanks to Stu and Jess too.)

The Believer takes a look at the phenomenon in a piece titled “Haterade“:

[M]any readers seem to be approaching their commenting privileges like teenagers with newly minted driver’s licenses. Belted in by anonymity and often distracted by the equally reckless ravings of their peers, they take potshots, spread untruths, and, at their worst, spew racism and bigotry that would put a professional writer out of business in a nanosecond. In so doing, they spread a rancor that can eclipse not only the original article but also the comments of readers who take a more constructive, civil approach. They take the very privilege the internet has afforded all of us—the privilege of equal opportunity, instant expression—and spit on it, making the very notion of “speaking your mind” seem almost like a dirty practice, the national pastime of the lowest common denominator.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR.