Mission Mission

Yesterday, I stopped by The Curiosity Shoppe to see the Jason Polan show, and happened to catch Emily at the register making these tiny packages and letters! I was so stunned by cuteness that I forgot to take a photo.

Luckily, the good folks at The Curiosity Shoppe had me covered. And it turns out there’s a party involved:

For the past couple of years The Curiosity Shoppe has been the happy host of The World’s Smallest Post Service. Once a month artist Lea Redmond sets up her portable letter-writing station and proceeds to dazzle and delight customers with her miniature letter-writing skills. Now the fine folks at Chronicle Books have teamed up with Lea to create an amazing kit so that you too can create and send the most darling diminuitive missives you’ve ever seen.

We’ll be celebrating Lea and The World’s Smallest Post Service Kit this Saturday from 6-8pm at the Shoppe. Come on down and meet Lea and get your hands on one of her fantastic kits! There will be snacks!!

WHAT: World’s Smallest Post Service Party
WHEN: Saturday, May 28th, 6-8pm
WHERE: The Curiosity Shoppe (855 Valencia St. btwn 19th & 20th Sts.)

That’s gonna be a gnarly dinner salad.

[via Carlos]

R.I.P. 506 Capp!

[via The Tens]

UPDATE: Art by Stevie Laney.

Check out this video of a kiddo rock band rocking Rage Against the Machine’s ”Killing in the name” at the Makeout Room. Apparently kids’ taste in music hasn’t changed in 15 years, because I was playing this exact song with my shitty garage band then (although not nearly as well):

First of all: it’s sung by a girl, so take that, gender roles. Secondly, all 17 “Fuck You”s are fully intact, along with the “MOTHERFUCKERRRRR” at the end. That takes some serious guts, considering their moms are probably in the audience. Third, the lead guitarist who takes Tom Morello’s whammy pedal solo probably plays better than you do.

If you’re interested in  signing up your kid for this sort of awesomeness, the show was put on by SF Rock Project.

In other news, “rock ‘n’ roll band” has been officially removed from the list of ways to rebel against your parents. What’s next, drugs?

Local bag makers Chrome have relaunched their newly expanded  in-store custom bag program, and it is RADICAL. Not only do you get to design the Chrome bag of your dreams, you get to watch Michael (bag sewer extraordinaire) put it together and make your dreams a reality right in front of your eyes. With loads of new colors, fabrics, and accouterments to chose from, you could literally spend hours picking out your new bag.

We were lucky enough to check out the process for ourselves, and got to create what could possibly be the COOLEST BAG in the history of bags. Check it out after the jump:

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To celebrate its 7,500th post, Sexpigeon is selling t-shirts featuring this dazzling new custom logo. Read all about the process here, or go straight to the shirt store.

Congrats, Team Sexpigeon!

If ’98 what?

…and it’s called Square-anoia. Creator Clay Smith explains:

It takes your foursquare checkins and maps them with nearby reported San Francisco crime — so, in my case, I discovered when I went to Mission Chinese last week there were 3 nearby assaults reported.

Hopefully this will somehow increase the relative safety of foursquare users in the Mission.

Hopefully. Try it out here.

Sorry I didn’t get any digital evidence, but DJ Purple just now at Make-Out Room busted out a bangin’ sax solo during a musical break on this classic Vengaboys jammer. I was pretty floored. You’re just gonna have to try to imagine what it was like.

OR, sing “Boom Boom Boom Boom!!” at the next DJ Purple party. (Which, of course, is Thursday at Jack’s.)

Carlos snapped this gem at Diary on Saturday. I gotta start going to Diary more often.