Mission Mission

[via Primo]

The Bold Italic today takes a look at everybody’s favorite Tallahassee import, volleybonk:

Volleybonk is a combination of volleyball, tennis, kickball, and, well, Fight Club.

We rotate service games similar to volleyball, except there’s no maximum or minimum number of players (they’ve had as few as two and as many as 36).

The goal, like tennis, is to hit winners or force errors, except unlike tennis, our team can volley among ourselves as many times as we want after the first bounce in order to get the ball across, as long as the same person doesn’t hit it twice in a row. We can strike the ball with any part of our bodies, so kicking, punching, heading, kneeing, or clotheslining are all on the table. Oh, and we don’t keep score.

Read on.

There’s this weird slide at the Franklin Square playground. It’s got no sides, so you have to stay on it by gripping it with your thighs, as demonstrated above. It’s pretty fun.

[via Ruby in the Dust]

“You know what attracted me to you? Her tits.”

Say what? (Good one, Omer!)

[via Eavesdropping]

Our pal Nick (of Buster Posey, Dreamcatcher fame) let us know of this colorful shirt his buddy Albert recently designed and will be selling this Sunday from 12-4pm at Cafe Trieste on 609 Vallejo Street here in the city.  Probably not a good idea to go to this one wearing feathers, though.

Previously:

Is my Indian headdress offensive?

My friend Sole ran across this on her way to work this morning. I guess they hadn’t opened yet though.

Street Food meet Street Drink.

[Thanks Sole!]

Now with more gender-specific curses than ever before!

(Thanks Christian!)

In an effort to help out the city of San Francisco as well as all of us Muni riders, one Mission resident and his crack team of programmers took to the internet and did in one weekend what city officials said would take 5 years to complete. SFGate has the details:

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has every intention of spending a few years and untold dollars creating its own, more robust version of the tool. But the team hacked together the basic parameters of the SMART Muni app in a 48-hour stretch in late July, fueled by pizza and beer.

Read on.

Previously:

• Pink-clad superhero team unsticks a stuck Muni bus
• Man vs. 14 Mission vs. being punched in the face
• Flight to San Diego faster than Muni ride from Lower Haight to Downtown

I’ve only met Amit Gupta a couple of times, but I could tell right away that he is one of the most charismatic, creative, and talented guys in the Mission. You may know him as the founder of Photojojo, a site full of great photography projects and products. He also happens to be the roommate to some other awesome people.

Amit was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia two weeks ago and has started treatment. He will need a bone marrow transplant, but South Asian donors are severely underrepresented.

Here’s how you can help:

1. If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
2. If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event. If not, encourage your NYC friends to go.
3. If you know any South Asians, please point ‘em to the links above.

South Asia means India and surrounding countries, in case you missed that day in class.

For more details, see Amit’s blog.

Update: Even if you’re not South Asian, do it anyway. Many other minorities are underrepresented in the donor pool and need help.

Shine On is next big thing! It’s a new indie pop night at Public Works on first and third Wednesdays, featuring some beloved local DJs hipping us to a very special era in rock history. DJ Jamie Jams fills us in:

We’re going for a late 80s, early 90s, UK indie vibe, drawing heavily from Smiths influenced jangly guitar pop (Smiths, Wedding Present, Stone Roses, early Primal Scream) but also more underground cuts from Sarah Records, Creation Records, Slumberland Records, Rough Trade Records and Factory Records.

The idea is to use that as a reference point and mix in all the classic garage, girl groups, punk and post punk stuff that influenced the C86 movement, with the 90s, 2000s, and current bands that draw from that sound. There’s also going to be a baggy/dream pop/shoegaze element as we follow the late 80s musical progression.

If we stick around long enough, we might even drift a bit into acid house territory, but I think its going to take a few nights before we start dabbling in that more than a little bit.

Here are some pertinent details on tonight’s inaugural edition:

Matinee film screening, 9pm-11pm. This month’s film: Upside Down: The Story of Creation Records.

$5, Free with RSVP before 11pm. $3 Olympia cans and cocktail specials all night. $2 shots before 11pm.

RSVP and invite your friends here.

After the jump, a handful of relevant tracks, in YouTube video form, hand-selected by Jamie Jams himself. Thanks, Jamie!

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