Mission Mission

At $4 a pack, they’re competitive with LEE’S up the street, but they taste so delicious!  The shrimp is lightly seasoned to subtly augment the flavor while the lettuce, noodles, and rice paper impress with their freshness.  I only tried a package with the peanut sauce (which was fantastic, BTW), so no verdict yet on the delectableness of the fish sauce.

When is someone in the Mission going to get their act together and open a banh mi shop?

Previously:

Inside the Banh Mi Cart Test Kitchen

Banh Mi by Mai

Snacking on Cushman Banh Mi

Something is happening in the Un-American Apparel space at 988 Valencia.

Mission Mission agents took this shot at a distance as not to arouse suspicion. Applying CSI style zoom:

Blue Fig? Hmm.

Nothing on Google (though it certainly seems to be a popular restaurant/hooka name in Ohio). Lots of permit activity at 988 Valencia via SFGov that closed on 4/23, but no specifics other than “Retail Sales”.

Blue is certainly becoming a popular prefix for Mission establishments: Blue Plate, Blue Macaw, Blue Fig. And there’s the blue Mission Cycling jerseys:

And the Mission Blue butterfly, which is making a comeback:

However, this is in direct conflict with Mission history, specifically the Mission Reds, who 80 years ago played ball a half dozen blocks away at Rec Park.

Do we require a series of red-themed establishments to keep things in balance? Or are the megaliters of tomato sauce and salsa consumed daily in pizzerias and taquerias mean we need more blue?

Somebody started a new meme this week: “Girls posing in front of graffiti murals.” It’s big. It’s all over the internet.

Top and top middle by melissaaaaa; bottom middle and bottom by kaylaloud.

Every generation acts like they invented hilarious cat videos. Newsflash: cats and videos have been around for decades! To prove this point, next Saturday May 29th, Oddball Films is showing their picks from two years of screenings, including this gem, which would almost certainly result in a lawsuit today:

The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much (1988) A wacky anti-drug film about the effects of alcohol and drug on the most purrrfect test subject, a cat. That darn cat!

More info after the jump.

P.S. What’s your favorite cat video? I’ve seen ‘em all, and I keep going back to this one.

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See all those empty planter boxes? The Walklet crew will be filling them with plants this afternoon, but they need some volunteers to help out. This is an historic thing folks; help make history! 1:30-4ish, 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia.

Photo by jeremyashaw.

Previously:

Gutter Lego

Well, time to chalk up another celeb hanging in the Mission. This time, at the Armory.

I was listening to WTF with Mark Maron this morning (which by the way, is an amazing podcast. It’s like a series of psychotherapy sessions for all my favorite aging stand-up comics) and I was surprised to find out that Margaret Cho is pretty freaky. So freaky, in fact, that she has been known to visit the Armory for some bizarre late-night… well just read on:

Check out the rest of this fascinating episode here and I guess we’re a celebrity gossip blog now. Stay tuned for our acquirement by Perez Hilton LLC.

(photo by davidyuweb)

Molly Ringwald Sighting at Delfina
Jane Lynch Sighting at Delfina

Look at that pigeon!  It’s learned to eat at the dinner table like a civilized person!  Over here they just eat from the gutter, or resort to (gasp!) cannibalism.

What other good manners can our pigeon population learn from their East Coast brethren?

[Sexy P. has the scoop]

Previously:

Bar Feeding Pigeons

Mission Street Food

Goose-Stepping Pigeons

Pigeon Tragedy

The Final Taboo Broken at Mission and Van Ness

Pigeons Ate a Horse Down to the Bone on 24th

Pigeons Discover Street Food

Serious writer Jen Gann delivers some important foodie news:

There’s a great hidden gem restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission district (where I live)!

It’s called McDonald’s and it’s right across from the BART station.

Read on if you want to know what’s so great about this place.

Photo by helloaubrey.

Previously:

A Whole Day at McDonald’s in the Mission

McShit

SFBC yesterday published a feature on “entrepedalers,” folks with bike-based businesses like our BFFs Mai and Nattles here. Read all about their exhausting schedules and how much they love their bikes here.

Previously:

Banh Mi by Mai

Bicycle Basket Pies by Nattles

Today only, Dickerman Prints here in the Mission is offering 50% off Bay to Breakers-related print jobs! Photo guru Greg explains:

Basically, [...] we’re offering a 50% discount to anyone who wants to come in and print their pics from B2B in whatever size they want, including kickass large poster/mural sizes, on the world’s best photographic printer.

That’s right, SFist, MURAL-SIZE prints of your gallery of girls peeing! Cheap!

This might look good blown up too.

Deal details here.