Mission Mission

It goes on from there. And it begins:

It would be very helpful and informative if you would take the time to complete the Citizens Satisfaction Surveybelow. Your opinion and comments on the service you received will help identify areas of performance whichneed improvement and those that are satisfactory or superior. Please return your completed survey at yourearliest convenience by mailing to or dropping off at Mission Police Station, 630 Valencia Street, San Francisco,CA 94110. It is our goal to continuously provide the highest level of service possible and to utilize all of theresources at our disposal to prevent crimes and arrest those responsible for committing them.

“All of the resources at our disposal.” I guess that includes brave and capable volunteers.

I’ll paste the full text after the jump, or you can view it as a Google Doc here.

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I stumbled upon this clip from a public access show in the ’90s called San Francisco Live.

If you can get past the spazzy 2 minute intro (which I linked past), it’s pretty interesting. Kilowatt used to be a destination spot for for Japanese noise bands, Czech Gypsy punk was a genre, and people used to buy records from record stores. Crazy, huh?

Handsome! What’d kids do after school in those days anway? No skateboards, no whippits, no high-fructose corn syrup. What’d you do?

[Image via Eric Fischer]

With this handy — and handsome — sweatshirt!

[Photo by TEEN WITCH / cellybrain]

This particular move is called the “downward pig”.

[Photo by Corntard]

“Muni Hulk: WHEN HULK GET ON LIGHT RAIL VEHICLE IT BECOME HEAVY RAIL VEHICLE.”

Check it out.

A friendly reminder to be sure to take care of that bike ride on Saturday, because you never know when Sunday will get rained out.

And I am confounded by why this continues to be so difficult for some drivers to figure out.  Correct procedure seems fairly obvious to discern from the street striping, so is this a question of manual dexterity then?  The above situation is definitely unsafe to transverse for a cyclist, with constant 40 mph traffic in the passing lane and an unpredictable line of cheap-fuel seeking cars walling off the other side.

I’d just as soon pass this off as typical oblivious automotive behavior were it not for the fact that it’s been happening for 6 months!

Will a solid green stripe along Fell solve this?  More than likely.  That one on Market Street, while imperfect, seems to take care care of most of the vehicular riff-raff.

And for any dufus who snickers that this isn’t in the Mission, please keep in mind this intersection’s vital importance for anyone who might want to take a delightful bike ride to the beach or for spicy Asian soup in the Sunset.

It’s supposed to be pretty windy today. Perhaps it’d be a good day to dig your sail bike out of the basement and sail to work! (Look at that guy’s fucking rifle!)

Of course, you have to decide on which model you prefer:

Or maybe it’s a prone bike day. I mean, any day is a good day for prone bike! Be sure to appreciate this dude’s graceful moves, and the rockin’ soundtrack:

(Thanks, Jess!)

[Windbike illustrations via Windbike]

Better watch your ass, Mission District! According to CBS San Francisco, the Guardian Angels are coming out in force to help put an end to gang violence once and for all:

In an official statement, the Angels have said they’re working with police and are prepared to make citizen’s arrests when they see someone breaking the law.

Read on.

Hey, remember when they called Vic a pussy in a comment thread? I wonder if they were “working with police” on that effort too. And when they poured out some perfectly good beers? That was cool. Better not let ‘em see you jaywalk.

[Photo by SFMISSION]