Mission Mission

American Tripps (the “Berlin-style” ping pong party I helped start here in the Mission back in 2011) along with the legendary DJ Purple present the first-ever April Fools’ Day edition of Singin’ & Pingin’, this Friday night at Verdi Club. Here’s from the official invite:

This is our first ever APRIL FOOLS’ DAY date, so we knew it had to be a SINGIN’ & PINGIN’ party!!!

• DANCE KARAOKE w/ the world famous DJ Purple
• BERLIN-STYLE PING PONG all night long (2 tables!)
• DRINK SPECIALS by the Verdi Club crew

*****Special guest ~April fools~ will announce CRAZY NEW RULES at the ping pong tables throughout the night!!!!
**********And it’s up to YOU to bring some utter FOOLISHNESS to the karaoke stage!!!

RSVP and invite your friends here! (And be sure to get a head start browsing DJ Purple’s songbook.)

UPDATE: Btw my favorite *foolish* song DJ Purple has is probably “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick” by Ian Dury. I’d do it myself tomorrow, but I have some other plans. Who’s up for it?

By our pal Ariel Dovas:

The rental market’s broken
SF is breaking your heart
You tried to move to Oakland
But you got stuck on BART

[link] [Photo by Joelle]

Now please enjoy these other poems…

Local fashion blog SF Looks has featured this stuff twice in the last few days. Must be a hot new look.

Read more about the pants here, and read more about the jacket here.

This Saturday at Pops Bar! If that poster art doesn’t have you convinced, here’s a blurb about the DJ:

A true veteran of the Bay Area hip hop and music scene, DJ Sake One is a born and raised renaissance man, known to doing anything from community projects to opening up for big acts such as Mos Def or Kanye West. Whether it’s soulful lounge tracks or bass-filled remixes, his talent and musical palate does not discriminate.

Check out the rest of this week’s entertainment line up at Pops Bar:

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Roast pork, smoked ham, roasted pineapple, pickled onion, jalapeno, lime mayonnaise.

Today’s special at Clare’s Deli.

[via Clare's Deli on Instragram]

http://www.arguslounge.com/

(Thanks, Josh!)

It’s actually Glen Canyon, which is basically a mellow walk away from the southern edge of the Mission. Local blog Big Old Goofy World posted the above pic and the following explanation:

An idyllic valley somewhere in rural Northern California? Nope, this is Glen Canyon in the heart of San Francisco. I never went here much as a kid — maybe because the canyon had a seedier feel in those days. It’s now been restored to glory (no doubt through the work of many dedicated volunteers). There are miles of trails and wooden boardwalks, craggy dropoffs, thickets of willows and expanses of native grasses and other plants, like these California Poppies.

Read on for more.

Here’s a map:

Now please read this stuff too…

I think we’ve got a couple options…

1.) All the way from NYC, it’s superstar DJ Jonathan Toubin, doing a free late-night session at the Chapel:

2.) Or if you wanna keep it local, our pal Tristes Tropiques is the special guest at Galaxy Radio at the Knockout:

Our pal Jeff Seal shows us how it’s done on the mean streets of NYC:

Now please enjoy lots more great Jeff Seal stuff…

Woohoo! Here are the proposed sites:

I’ve gotta renew my membership!

See the whole map here.