Mission Mission

What’s the best way to heat up a bunch of tortillas in a short amount of time? Putting them on a baking sheet in the oven just seems wrong. One by one on the stove-top burner secures the optimal texture but is time consuming and requires constant babysitting.

The best we’ve been able to come up is the tortilla flower. The best part is you can flip it all at once!

Noise Pop and City Arts and Lectures are presenting a very special conversation next Tuesday starring rock legend Bob Mould and street art icon Shepard Fairey. Here are some career highlights from the winsome pair:

This should be fun!

To win tickets, in the comments section below share your best Bob Mould- or Shepard Fairey-related anecdote. A winner will be chosen based on merit by noon this coming Friday.

Read more about the event here, and purchase tickets here.

Happy 8th birthday, Bender’s!

[Photos by terry.b; more here.]

[via Pen Pop]

Sounds good to me!

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SF Gate was on the scene for their San Francisco debut:

Kelvin Quinnine has shivered through more San Francisco nights than he can count, fog biting through whatever worn-out sleeping bag he pitched onto the sidewalk.

He stood last week on Ellis Street with his latest bag wrapped around him. When a young woman wearing a bizarrely baggy coat walked up to him, he cocked his gray-bearded head sideways.

“It’s a coat for the homeless that turns into a sleeping bag at night,” 22-year-old Veronika Scott said brightly. She held an edge out to him. Quinnine pinched it.

Read on.

(Thanks, Colleen!)

[Photo by Noah Berger / SF Chronicle]

It’s nice to see hand sanitizers popping up outside bodegas around the Mission (like this one on Folsom) and I suppose it makes sense to advertise another sanitization product on it, since you’re already thinking of germs anyways. Cell phone sanitization makes perfect sense, because we’re all constantly pressing them to our gross faces, and let’s be honest, who hasn’t dropped their cell phone in the toilet at the Uptown, amiright?

(Thanks, Chris!)

JB’s bike was stolen yesterday. Pictured above, it has a black deep V to Suzue carbon hub, Deda oversized bullhorns, and a black Thomson post. If you’ve seen it, holler at him or us!

[Photo by John Reiss]

I was going to call this the raddest junkyard in the city, but then I realized it might be the only junkyard in the city.  Whatever, it’s still rad as hell to rush by on a train:

When the city is done with you and finally ready to spit you out, this is where you inevitably end up.  If you’re the Brave Little Toaster, that is.  There’s probably also something poignant to say about human waste, but I’ll leave that to the poets in the comments.

The whole set after the jump.

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