Mission Mission

From the Macaframa website:

The event is finally upon us. Please come out to support a good cause and race and drink with your friends. There will be great prizes for the racers, as well as for our raffle, and cheap drink specials from Fernet and PBR! A portion of the proceeds will go to the SF Bike Messengers Association’s Broken Bones Fund

The race will be fixed only and will be an alleycat format. The event will have a DJ set and live performance by Nick Waterhouse and the Tarots, who have been blowing UP lately!

I know first hand how expensive it to be hit by a car while biking, and these guys take that risk and pay the price everyday doing their jobs.  So why not enjoy some PBR and take in a good show to help them out?  And if you’re feeling adventurous, jump in the race too!  If I had a fixie, I would totally be all over it — anyone got a lender bike?

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Somebody lost their Titleist in the storm drain at 22nd and Valencia!

Reminds me of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1KB24P6is

Take it from me, Ariel telling a story in real life is a million times better than anything any blog post could ever attempt to replicate. Go to this thing. (Advance tickets appear to be sold out, so just show up and pound on the door.)

Amidst this week’s media blitz surrounding our neighbor to the south, La Lengua, our buddy Cranky Old Mission Guy (who just launched a new website this week btw) came up with the best rechristening idea I’ve heard since I first heard “La Lengua” oh so many eons ago:

My new name for the area of the Mission around the 16th Street BART plaza is “Royal Gate”, after the plastic vodka bottles strewn everywhere.

Totally! Sixteenth and Mission is totally a royal gateway — in the exact same way that this crummy vodka is “royal.” Perfect!

(Thanks to our other buddy SCUM for finding the above photo.)

[Photo via Kute 'n' Krispy]

First of all, “Big Gay Warehouse.” We should definitely all go. Secondly, Breezy Nix is the best! We saw her North American debut at Amnesia a couple months ago, and it was killer. She sent us a mix she made, and it is a blast. And, of course, she looks great in an animated GIF.

RSVP to tonight’s show and invite your friends here.

Anyway, I know this place is kind of a haul, but I’m down to get a bike caravan going or whatever. Hit me up!

That’s all the property owner ever wanted to hear. Now you guys are cool. Carry on.

[via The Fog Bender]

In homage to the internet’s most popular bunny rabbit, Pickles the cat demonstrates his hidden talent.

Mission Local spent some time with the anti-choice geezers forever posted up outside Planned Parenthood:

On a recent Friday afternoon, Ron Konopaski, 71, sets up a folding chair outside the clinic. It’s closed today, but that doesn’t matter. The retired dentist has been here every day since March 9. His duty is to ensure that at least two people are in front of the clinic at all times.

Konopaski and his fellow activists believe that abortion, even when due to rape, is an abomination to God’s plan. To them, the elements of a person begin at fertilization — a new life that no one other than God has the right to take.

“We’re trying to just give them the truth,” says Konopaski.

Read on.

So, Scoutmob seems supercool. They are kind of akin to all these new group-buying sites like Groupon, but all their deals are free. FREE, dude! Futhermore, they seem to focus on stuff like tacos and books and cool restaurants (rather than spa treatments and cologne and jewelry), so it’s more our speed.

Today, Scoutmob is offering 50% off at Pancho Villa ($10 max discount) TOTALLY FREE. (Plus, Mission Mission gets some cash for helping promote this wicked discount, so by taking advantage of it, you’d be helping us pay the rent, which would be awesome.)

And to make things even more interesting, Scoutmob also wants to send two lucky readers (and their entourages) on a very special trip to Pancho Villa, in which you get to dine with the entire Mission Mission staff! And Scoutmob picks up our bill! We’re pretty cool to hang out with I think, so, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, am I right?

To enter (and get your 50% off thingy) just follow this link. (And if you’re already a Scoutmob member, just re-enter your email address for a chance to win.)

And for more on Scoutmob, please check them out!

Clearly that is why the Obama administration is not totally killing it.

Have at it, somebody:

Relevant details can be found here, so you can credit whomever you need to credit. NOTE: Making a t-shirt out of this WILL put an end to the Republican Party once and for all, clearly.

In related news, Obama appeared in SF last night.