Mission Mission

As the story goes, it all started as a joke. It was in Florida, 32 years ago, that Chuck and Lou Ann Best adopted a little gray squirrel who had been orphaned by a hurricane. Then they taught it how to waterski. You can read the longer version on Twiggy’s official homepage.

Go Giants!

Photo by Christine Huang.

Gary Wu, ladies and gentlemen. Live at the Make-Out Room.

Reader Andy P. wants to know:

I was riding north on S Van Ness back to work and saw all kinds of commotion on 22nd street, anyone know what happened?

Luckily, tipster Eugene C. has the answer!

Nothing terribly exciting and you can’t see much in the pic, but two pickups got into an accident on 22nd at Capp in front of the El Trebol.

So there you go.  Nice work team!

UPDATE: More pics!! And word of an injury. Also, SFist has more story.

I actually know a couple of veterans of the Coffee Wars. Most of them switched to tea. A few defectors are said to still be in hiding at McLaren park.

[via the entire internet, and Killing My Lobster]

This man’s insane hella-strings guitar was brought to you by MOViN 99.7. Don’t miss Fernando & Greg in the mornings and tune in tonight for your chance for free tickets to this year’s Triple Ho Show!

How do you say “Viral Marketing” in Spanish, anyway? The answer may shock and educate you:

I’m totally stoked that Robin Nolan is performing at Revolution Cafe tonight.

Robin is a certifable guitar god from Amsterdam that plays Django Reinhardt-style jazz, with his own unique spin. He can shred the Django stuff with the best of them, but isn’t afraid to let his rock and experimental influences make their way in the mix. For example, check out his bitchin’ AC/DC “For Those About To Rock” intro to his recent set in Seattle:

He also literally wrote the book(s) on this style of music that everyone, including myself, learned from.

The show goes from about 9pm-12am and there’s no cover, so be sure to tip these guys a lot. And who knows, I might be joining them for a couple of tunes. This place tends to be a shit show every night, so get there early if you want a seat.

[photo by gadjoboy]

Overheard yesterday evening at Dolores Park, screamed from a hilltop:

“I GOT A JOB!!!”

Congrats, guy. Keep your chins up, people. It’s possible after all.

Photo by Gregory Veen.

Christina Amini from Chronicle Books wants to have lunch with us:

Now, I’m the editor of The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex and I love my author Kristen Schaal (Mel from Flight of the Conchords), and want to make sure that as many MissionMission fans as possible come on over. There will be food. There will be books. There might be boobs.

Sexy sex lunch! From noon to 1pm, Kristen will sign books and say hi to you, and there will be food. Chronicle is at 680 2nd Street down near the ballpark.

Read all about the book here.

Tipster Kathy tells us: “My 5 year old and I went to Mission Chinese Food/Lung Shan yesterday for takeout and my daughter noticed this critter in the gutter, alive and scooting along.”

Alive and Scooting.

Making a run for Mission Creek?