Mission Mission

Says Emergency_In_SF:

VAULT FIRE: initially 3,400 without power in Mission. Now only 300 affected and being placed on generators per PG&E.

Link. Everybody okay?

Go get a cappuccino in the afternoon, tweet a picture of it, get a Chimay on the house for happy hour? Easy peasy. You’re welcome! Link.

What will you do when the pigeons go all North Korea on us? What will you do?

Photo by razorfrog.

Previously:

KevMo Loves Potrero del Sol Skatepark

Drunk Skaters Skate Down Grassy Hill in Dolores Park

The Fix-Push Skateboarding Revolution!!!!

Check it out, there’s this person called rat_fink on Flickr who basically takes pictures of nothing but Volvos, often in the Mission. Some of the Volvos are noteworthy (?) thanks to fancy hood ornamentation (see below) or subtly humorous (?) hood ornamentation (see above), but many are not notable at all. Volvos, Volvos, Volvos, as far as the eye can see.

Previously:

Voodoo Volvo

Remember Volvo

Just caught wind of this gorgeous video of Mission singer/songwriter Sean Hayes. His new album drops on March 2. The video was produced by clean white lines, a video blog that has been doing some amazing work for local bands.

While you’re on a Sean Hayes kick, check out this tune he wrote inspired by stories of the Mission area during 1906 earthquake, “Dolores Guerrero”:

Video by Matthew Ginnard.

Do yourself a favor and read this post by The Tens.

So now that Blow Up is officially dead, where will the under-21 crowd flock to next?  Hopefully not to the Attic, because Danny White will be taking over the place as he does every time the last Friday of the month rolls around, and I don’t want to feel like a creep while I’m there.  Furthermore, the pitcher-plant-like nature of the Attic conspires to trap every Mission fly who wanders through the door and down its liquor-lined corridor in that tangle of limbs, sweat, and flannel that is the dance floor, so there’s really no escape.

I captured the above scene last month at the Attic, and I must say that the man knows how to keep a crowd moving and captivated.  His energetic mix echoed everything from Holy Ghost and Hot Chip to the Pet Shop Boys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.  And look how he gets into it over there on the left!  He’s been at it for a while too, as this Flickr page from 2005 can attest.

Maybe it will even give those Debaser folks a run for their money.

Ps.  No flame war plz!!!

Gruel raised quite a fuss a few weeks ago when he performed some acrobatic yet sloppy tagging on the Sketchers sign at 22nd and Mission.  However, commenter Duh points out that it’s been a sort of tradition to deface that obtrusive jumble of piping, as Revok so poignantly demonstrated back when the place was a Leed’s.

Jocelyn Superstar has the scoop, along with an extensive photostream of graffiti pics from the late 90′s and early ’00s (whatever that decade is supposed to be called).  Hmmm, looks like taggers have pretty much always been part of the neighborhood!

Previously:

Gruel Goes Ninja on the Sketchers Sign

Google Maps Time Travel on 18th and Treat