Mission Mission

Photo by germán 52.

CLASSIC.

Flagged for removal? Gimme a break!

Says Jeff.

Looks yum! Mike Chino reports, “Bi Rite has kumquat tangerines! What!?” Link.

In response to last night’s pipe violence story, an anonymous reader wrote in with the following:

I saw another one last night. I biked down to Weird Fish/The Corner last night to get some food with my girlfriend, only to find that both were closed. We were sitting on our bikes discussing where to go next when I saw a smallish Latino walk intently past me with a metal pipe in his hand. I watched him run across the street, just north of the corner of 18th and Mission where he proceeded to start barking like a dog and then ran up on a group of dudes standing outside of the Hip Hop Clothing Smoke Shop. One of the guys immediately ran inside, while others stayed out on the corner and ducked and dodged swings of the pipe. I got the fuck out of there after that, but it didn’t seem like anyone was seriously injured – not sure though.

Uptown Almanac reports:

Nicolas King, an aide to Supervisor Dufty, has confirmed that Dolores Park will be “entirely closed during its renovation.”

This renovation is expected to begin some time between August and December of 2011 and last for most of a year and a half. Link.

Fashionist spotted this combination of gray palette and gradient tights on 18th Street recently, lucky for us. It’s like a Tumblr theme you can wear! Link.

The great thing about Critical Mass in Sacramento is that with only 14 people on the ride, if you get a flat, the entire Mass will pull over and hang out while you patch it up.

The terrible thing about Critical Mass in Sacramento is there’s this dude who thinks he’s the leader. Gives a welcome speech (he actually says “Welcome to Critical Mass!”) where he explains how Critical Mass works, cautions you not to break any rules, gets all serious if you make a joke about throwing bricks at cars, and informs you in which direction he’s decided we’ll be starting off. And then he barks orders at everybody the whole time: “LIGHT!!” “JOIN US!!” “IT’S CRITICAL MASS; JOIN US!!” “LIGHT!!” Gag me!

Sacramento is beautiful though. It’s a nice place to bike.

Previously:

Critical Mass Halloween

Critical Mass Seattle

Critical Mass at Ocean Beach

Critical Mass Louisville

Says reader Marcus P.:

So we were rounding out a Jersey Shore themed bar crawl with a few slices and whole pizza at Katz pizza/bagels. A group came in, presumably from Double Dutch, didn’t seem to find what they were looking for, and left. One of them was a transvestite. We grabbed our pizza and headed out to find that same transvestite bleeding from her face with a group of 10 people or so attending to her. She was conscious and moving her head, but didn’t look too good.

The cops came and some little guy ran into the street yelling “I told you guys! I fucking told you guys!” at the cop car. The car stopped in the middle of the intersection and the driver got out and yelled at the little guy to get out of the way or go to jail, something to that effect.

I didn’t want to rubberneck or take photos or anything, but some onlookers across the street said that the transvestite had some words with a guy, who then pulled out a metal pipe and hit her in the head. The assailant took off in a car. The cops got a description (black hoodie) and sent a squad car after the suspect.

Sounds like a hate crime on a full moon.

UPDATE: Another incident right around the corner.