Mission Mission

Our boy Carlos Reyes had been kind of absent from the internet for a while, but he’s back in full force, with pictures like this and poetry like that and philosophizing like BLAM. Do check in.

In the above video clip, extreme sportsman Travis Pastrana backflips a big wheel over a megaramp. How come nobody did that last week?

[via kottke]

Previously:

Bring Your Own Bring Your Own Big Wheel Video

Benjamin and Peter Bratt are on right now.

Opens April 16th at the Metreon. Ahh, the irony that we can’t watch it in the Mission.

Everybody loves parades.  The Rose Parade, Dykes on Bikes; hell, Disneyland has a parade every single day.  And street festivals are all about revolution, taking back the pavement from automobiles and the insidious forces that promote their ubiquitous role in society.  Predictably then, the Cesar Chavez Parade and Festival was an obvious hit, marrying both concepts into a union that even the Mormons would have a difficult time de-legitimizing.

This fellow was particularly enthused to be part of the action.  Since they apparently wouldn’t let him be part of the lo rider escort team, rolling with the mobile mariachi unit was the next logical choice.  Oh, but you don’t have to litter, guys!

The unions also got to strut their stuff, which was probably the whole point when this celebration was initially conceived.  It was educational, too, since I previously had no idea that there was in fact a linoleum union.

As expected, the postal union continued their stagnant march ahead, blissfully unaware that the Post Office will probably be bankrupt in two years, having chosen to subsidize environment-wrecking mass catalog distribution and junk mail companies by resorting to steadily increasing the cost of postage for you and me to send simple letters, rather than attempting to creatively integrate the internet age into operations.

It’s unfortunate that it costs 44 cents for us to send a simple one-page letter in the mail, but Ikea (or pick whatever corporation you want) gets to clog your box with massive tomes that you will probably just forward directly to the recycling bin, and they only have to pay a mere penny or two to send each one.  Trees get chopped to supply all the paper, much of which often finds its final resting place in landfills.  All the while the USPS keeps hemorrhaging money without knowing why.  But arguing about snail mail on the internet is a tired affair, and I digress.  Plus, we’ve still got to get to the street festival!

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Lydia Chávez at Mission Loc@l reports that a brick was hurled through the window of the Sirron Norris Studio on Valencia Street.

Lame for sure.

Source of the photo and the rest of the story here.

Also from Mission Loc@l, a new Reyes piece in the making on the Walgreens at 23rd and Mission.

Sirron Norris was previously covered on Mission Mission here.

Our buddy Annie (whom you might remember from her epic brush with niceness) caught this quick glimpse of something special happening in Dolores Park. Annie says:

Photo or video shoot, obviously, but I was on the J so I didn’t have enough time to guess at the plot. It looked like everybody was having a lot of fun, though.

A lot of fun shooting a new spot for Charlie Rose I bet.

Anyway, if you think this photo is fun, wait’ll you see the rest of Annie’s photostream.

Stay on target… Almost there…

(And WeatherBug, no Mission station? WTF?)

40 going on 28 made it out to the Mission Dolores Bar in NYC, and his review: “actually a cool place,” though lacking in a certain vendor authenticity.

If you want to hear more about his trip to NYC read on, and be prepared for some painful truths like:

I hate it when people compare New York to SF, because it’s totally not fair and NYC has 13 million people and a lot more land mass and Donald Trump and all we have is 49 square miles and Dolores Park and Frank Chu, but I can’t help it. New York is fucking awesome.

Mission Local yesterday announced the release of a citywide playground report card, in which Dolores Park’s playground ranked amongst the lowest of the low. The failing grade indicates the playground is ill-signaged, under-equipped, dirrrty and unsafe.

Over at Curbed SF, Susie Cagle points out that just four years ago the same playground got a B, and asks whether this might be a case of politics undermining playground report card propriety.

You know, because the city wants everyone to get behind its forthcoming renovations.

The good news is, other neighborhood playgrounds rank amongst the highest of the high. Read on.

[via SFist]

Infographic by Mission Local.

Previously:

These Kids Are Cleaning Up Dolores Park

Save Dolores Park! With Anarchy!

And would you, could you, if I turn on the light?

Penelope Popsicle snapped this picture, but apparently was not inclined to get these questions answered