Mission Mission

And for dessert…

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More carson! Nick Fisher was on the scene last night.

“The fire somehow turned on the horn and headlights which were both blasting for the duration.”

“[The firemen] are trying to get the hood off to put out the fire still burning under there. Eventually they sawed it off.”

Just a week and a half since  2 cars on 18th Street were torched in a row. Still not cool, bro.

UPDATE: Thanks to actual journalism, The SF Appeal gets the official story so far:

“[A]ccording to SFPD spokesperson Sgt. Michael Andraychak, the arson task force has determined that the fire was accidental in nature, and is not believed to be connected to last week’s intentionally set fires.

Andraychak, who says he spoke directly with arson investigators, confirms Talmadge’s report that the fire began in one car, then spread to the second. God, sucks for the second guy, doesn’t it? Best of luck to all in dealing with that insurance claim.“

Hanging on by belt loops

Three friends are riding three bikes but then one of the bikes gets a flat and no one thought to bring along a pump.  What do they do next?

Anyone have a better idea?

I hope epic fun like this figured into the vision for a renovated Dolores Park last night.

Chug!!

Photo by Luba.

Controversial!

Photo by Penelope Popsicle.

Previously:

Lady Gaga at Farolito

Lady Gaga at Rosamunde

Yuck!

Screen shot by Mike Ambs.

Previously:

Poison Cloud Street View

Frank Chu in Your Street View

The Boo Blog tells us what it’s like to see a shooting in the Mission, and then think about it nonstop afterward.

Here’s the event:

I saw a kid in a red hoodie pointing his gun at another young man. I don’t remember what either looked like. I told the student I was working with to get behind something and I did the same, not that it mattered. The shooter was, after all, a kid, and like a kid, once the shots were fired, he ran away. I never saw his face, but I could tell by the way he was running that he was as scared as the kid he was shooting at.

Here’s a thought on the aftermath:

City blocks are resilient things. People say that about nature, but city blocks are amazing to me because they are complete neutral–they are created and recreated daily by the people who live on them. After the police were gone and people stopped making dumb comments like the one I made, the block has returned to being the same kind of ugly/beautiful urban block it had been before.

And there’s plenty more. Read on.

Photo by Cheatara.

Rumor has it.

Photo by Ray Coshow.

(One of the infamous “hotel rooms”?)

Nick Fisher read our post from a few months ago about getting a free tour of The Armory and sprang into action. Last Friday his tour came up and he was kind enough to take Julie, Dottie and me with him.

Julie posted about it on Caliber, along with a link to the full set.

Check out the sights after the jump. (some NSFW stuff linked)

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Standing outside the Elbo Room the other night (after Tormenta Tropical, which was amaaazing) I got really into this other project I’ve been working on, and my friend Marijke gave it a name: Hot Faces.

Thanks to all who’ve participated! Who’s next?

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