Mission Mission

Found at Humphry Slocombe by sirgious.

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"I eat hipsters for breakfast"

In spite of the fact this video was upload by KQED 8 months ago and is not Mission-related, I am posting it anyways.  Besides, is it really a stretch to think about how awesome it would have been to be mauled by a 13-foot tall bear running 40 miles-per-hour while you were riding a camel to get a burrito?  Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Go watch KQED QUEST: Ice Age Bay Area.  Your boss won’t mind; it was 12 minutes you were not going to spend working anyways.

eviloars is killing it lately.  Just follow him on flickr and stop reading this blog.  Go ahead; we won’t mind.

“We got to Matt’s car to go to a big box, conservative leaning, home improvement chain, only to find this mess.”

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Free admission if you wear a monkey suit.  ’nuff said.

Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of vintage films on bicycle safety, history and more.  Highlights include: the early 60’s cult favorite “One Got Fat”; the kooky “Just Like A Car”; “Bicycles Are Beautiful” with Bill Cosby; “Riding On Air”, a 1959 short focused on the bike craze in Britain; “How To Protect Your Bike”, a hilarious 1970’s look at foiling bike thieves; “Bicycle Safely”, bike history and safety; plus early TV segments, “The Bicycle Clown”, vintage commercials and more!  Free admission for anyone in a full monkey suit.

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A reader, Sophia, emailed us this scene from 17th and Albion:

“two hot mission wheels lovingly tied to a shared post to derail theft”

Meanwhile, eviloars spotted a tourist-transporter locked up on Valencia:

“I guess that makes perfect sense. And in the future, since we’ll all have this, I’ll forget why I decided to point it out.” (link)

A reader, Ellen, reports that there is an interesting odor at the corner of 23rd and Folsom:

Well I noticed that it is that time of year when the corner at 23rd and Folsom St. smells like male ejaculate… If you think I am being nuts, go stand there and take a whiff for yourself.  It totally smells like jizz.  It has something to do with the trees growing on that street and it happens every year for a few weeks over June-July.

While I personally cannot verify this, our very own Allan Hough claims to have “heard tales of the jizz tree before.”

Just when you are starting to think you have seen it all on Capp…

Looks like My First Earthquake just shot a music video in the Mission.  Bonus points if you can easily identify the street they are jamming on in the opening scene.

(Cool in the Cool Way – Invasion of the Hipster Bodysnatchers)

This morning, some deeply superficial people unveiled an origami frog pond in Dolores Park.  Check it.

"Ribbit"

eviloars asks “what does this tree look like?”

“I was thinking a giant leaping ghost. Or that Oogie Boogie guy from ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’.”

(Found on 15th St. - link)