Mission Mission

In a new interview with the director of Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, First Things blows the lid off Stillman’s floor drugs habit:

Little details often interest Stillman. He spent a couple of minutes during one interview collecting tiny white balls off the floor. He thought they were pills but lost interest when he discovered they were your typical over-the-counter breath mints.

What a scoop! Read on if you like Whit Stillman and/or want to hear about his forthcoming film and where he’s been at for the last 12 years.

Floor drugs!

[via whitstillman.org] [Photo by Damien Basile]

Previously:

Floor Drugs

Internet celebrity Eric Fischer just unearthed a few more ancient pictures of the Mission, including this shot of the Hairball in its infancy.

Also, Mission south of 22nd.

And, FYI, Mission Local has a slide show examining proposed Cesar Chavez corridor improvements that includes some aerial shots that illustrate exactly why it’s called the Hairball here.

My Lucky Number’s One posted this picture and had this to say:

Cars keep almost running over cyclists in the bike lane right here. Cyclists are being amazingly polite in getting their attention.

Politeness is good, right? But does it make a lasting enough impression on the average dick motorist? How do you teach people to share the road and be more aware of their surroundings? What are the answers to these seemingly unanswerable age-old questions?

Kudos to photographer Christopher Ruedy for this epic shot. View it large for full epicness.

Whose flying dog is this anyway? Kudos to you too.

That stuff ain’t cheap! Maybe we should all try a little harder to appreciate the monetary lengths graffiti artists go to to keep our streets looking rad.

[Photo by Petty Crimes]

Ulysses just experienced this phenomenon for the first time. See the photo in its entirety and read all about it here.

This is serious!  Not since the Mr. Pickles saga has a particle injustice gone unchecked for so long!  Put on your Sherlock hats and let’s Scotland Yard this pup!

*Reward is a sixer of Simple Times and an Italian Wedding sandwich.

I wonder which half it is. Be a bummer if it smelled like foot.

[Photo by Male Awareness Day]

I don’t mean that in a bad way at all. I like poor man’s stuff.

Anyway, this is the video for “Pagan Wedding” by local band Square Dance:

[Thanks, Allen!]

Curbed SF reports:

The state has awarded a $2,700,000 grant for the long-planned urban oasis at 17th & Folsom Streets, currently a parking lot. It won’t happen tomorrow- they have yet to buy the lot from its current owner, the Public Utilities Commission, and still have to raise more cash to cover the project’s estimated $5,000,000 total cost.

Dang! Big numbers! Couldn’t we just do it guerilla-style like those skaters in Oakland?

Anyway, I like the name. Future Park! Badass, right? Read the rest of the story here, or leave a comment below suggesting a better name.