Mission Mission

From reader Skyler S.:

I’m sick of watching these 21st Street Giants mob violence videos, but I was nearly mowed down by the driver and my friend got some gruesomely graphic footage. It’s terrible to watch. Even though the driver brought this upon himself, I don’t wish a beating like this on anybody.

UPDATE: Skyler explains what became of the driver:

A group of us started yelling stop and rushed in, a super citizen in front of us grabbed the driver and shoved him through the crowd to safety. The driver owes a lot (maybe his life) to whoever that fellow is that risked his shit to pull him out of the mob. His savior had a white and orange hat on, and an orange jersey (real distinguishable in a mob of orange right). You can see him pull the driver out of the mob in the other videos.

Previously:

Car Plows Revelers

California is a Place posted a lovely mini-documentary on a Los Angeles Mariachi trumpeter who goes by the name “El Rey” that you should check out. These guys live music.

Next time you’re sitting next to one of these smartly-dressed fellas on MUNI, be sure to wish him a good gig.

Here’s the link. Embedded below if you’re not google reader’ing.

Thanks, Champs!

Photo and astute observation by Nattles.

These are the feet of Ash Reiter frontwoman Ash Reiter, who you might remember from her viral video smash Paper Diamonds. Tonight, Ash Reiter the band brings the rock ‘n’ roll to Elbo Room. It’s free, and sponsored by JanSport, so you might get a free backpack to boot, or something.

Andrew Sarkarati saw them at Hotel Utah with me last month and had a great time, even though he normally doesn’t like anything that’s not Boney M. or Abba, so you’ll probably have a good time too. RSVP on Facebook if you want.

P.S. “Stumble and Fall” is one of my favorite Ash Reiter songs. It starts to kick into gear around the 1-minute mark, so be patient:

At around 11pm on the night of the big win, Jina (also the taker of the above photo) said:

It’s actually amazingly beautiful tonight at top of Dolores Park, despite all the noise below.

I mean, of course it’s beautiful. It’s always beautiful up there. But, what gives? Why weren’t we all in the park? I smell CONSPIRACY.

World Champs!!

[Photo by Alexis Cordova]

P.S. Wait, maybe it’s just that the driver of this SUV lost control into a parked car.

Yup. Looks like Thor or somebody attended Monday night’s riot and decided to rip this BART plaza bench from its foundations.

Photo by Carlos Reyes, who is still missing his board.

My budding filmmaker buddy Nico spliced together all the great high def footage he took of the craziness last night and put it over the most appropriate soundtrack imaginable to create the masterpiece shown here.  Although the general consensus seems to be that what occurred in the Mission on Monday night following the Giants’ championship victory was not a riot per se, it’s easy to understand why anyone standing in the vicinity of these shots might be inclined to suggest otherwise.

Take a look and see for yourself to relive the memories over and over again.

[via Man Freckles]

Renée here is bummed about all this cheer. “Dear San Francisco Baseball Fans,” she says, “And now, can the hipsters high-fiving marina brahs end? I like my tidy demographics apart and scowling.”

Umm, I’m gonna be presumptuous and say NOPE. Let’s celebrate (and treat each other nice) at least until spring!

But Renée, again, nice pants.