Mission Mission

Just posted: the route map for the (first of two) Mission Sunday Streets on June 20th. Biggest difference — this year, Harrison gets carless, and it runs to 3pm instead of 2pm.

Not yet on their web site, but some details on Facebook.

As a reminder, here’s 24th St last year:

Don’t forget to move your cars this time around, OK?

Previously:

Cool Pup

Bunny Pup

Beth Spotswood over at Eye on Blogs points us toward Doug McCune’s series of maps of SF crime statistics visualized using elevation. There are maps for all kinds of different crimes, but the Mission is at the very least always pretty hilly. Read on.

Oh, that peak there? Prostitution, of course.

[via SFist]

UPDATE: Uptown Almanac was the first SF media outlet to link to McCune’s blog today.

UPDATE: SF Citizen linked to McCune’s blog yesterday.

A relative of both Nonplussed Lunchbox and Troy Holden’s urban quilts?

Photo by Keoki Seu.

You Might Find Yourself spotted this ingenuine article in Chinatown over the weekend, and had this to say:

Must kop.

Ditto. [link]

Previously:

Nike Is Buying Public Parks

Nike Beer Cozy

So wrote reader Adam G. on Saturday night:

Went to Adobe tonight. Confirmed that they are NOT closing. A couple of art projects that features tag lines like “Everything must go!” and whatnot must have led to the rumor.

Darn art! Always making you think and shit.

Photo by SFist.

Revisiting our prior debate over whether it is acceptable for pedestrians to stand in and occupy parking spots in order to hold them for their friends, MM reader Jeremy shares the following story:

Some dirt bag motherfucker used his vehicle to battered me out of the parking spot I was holding for me wife, who was 1 block away.

After asking if he saw me, He said yes, and sneered, “there are no savesies.”

I asked him not to leave, as he had just hit me with his car, and I wanted to call the police.  He threw down a business card on the hood of his car and told me to “do whatever the fuck you want, because I’m going home.” and walked away from his car, presumably towards home.

So I called the cops.  A hour and a half later, duchebag who used his vehicle as a battering ram was handcuffed in the back of a black and white, not for hit and run(accidental accident that he walked away from), but Felony vehicular assault (He new I was there and purposely hit me with his car).  Fuck anybody who wants to use their cars as weapons, either against pedestrians, or bicyclists

FYI, Dirtbag never even asked me to get out of the way. He just rammed into to me with the back of his car and pushed me out of the way. I would have probably given up the spot to him had he asked (I spend enough time looking for parking after work to be sympathetic to someone coming home after work).  But ramming people with your car?  Go to jail, asshole.

[Photo by Dan of Future's Past]

Previously:

Okay for Pedestrians to Occupy and Hold Parking Spots?

Valencia and 22nd. I know it was a nice this weekend, but have some pride people.

(Unless there’s a keg in the center of that thing. Then that’s a different story entirely.)

Are they slaves chained to it like a greek trireme, prowling the Mission for targets to ram?

Or tourists that were told “hey, everyone in the Mission rides like this.”

Is Muni’s new cost savings plan?

MrEricSir saw another group of victims on 18th.

I simply do not think my brain could handle pedaling in a direction different than my velocity.

Pretty sure that’s not his bike . . .

[Photo and caption by my buddy Johnny]

Not sure why these just got opened at 5pm, but the collective park celebrates the fact.