Mission Mission

Photo by Marijke J.

I was like, “Dang, who’s Jonathan Solo?” So I tried this thing Google (after being hipped to it by a commercial during Super Bowl XLIV yesterday) and found out he’s a San Francisco-based artist whose stuff is waaay creepy! See for yourself!

Photo by Marijke J.

These really work for me, people. Don’t you just want to dive right in?

Photos by Marijke J.

Check out Mission native Michelle Nguyen’s blog, Meng;Inspired. She writes and draws a sweet autobiographical comic strip. That’s her on the left.

As you heard last week, Mission Street Food is working on moving out of their oh-so-classy classy Lung Shan digs and becoming a full-time non-profit restaurant. Their initial $500 investment option was a bit steep for most folks, so they moved over to the kickstarter.com model which allows you to donate arbitrary amounts of money anywhere from $1 and up.

If you donate $50 and up you get a gift certificate to the restaurant for that amount, so it practically pays for itself if you were planning on going there anyway. More details on their blog or just hop over to kickstarter page here. They have to reach their $10,000 goal before May 5th for the funding to happen.

If you aren’t aware of what Mission Street Food is all about, this documentary covers it pretty well.

Reader Jesse W. had his bike stolen. Anyone seen it? It’s a really unique Schwinn cruiser that seems pretty hard to miss:

Last night (Thursday, 2/4), my super-fly Schwinn cruiser was stolen, along with three other bikes, from my garage at 15th and Guerrero.  It’s super recognizable, especially if the dumb-ass punk(s) who stole it neglect to unstring the LED christmas lights from the frame.

If you have any leads post a comment or email us (missionmissionmission at gmail dot com) and we’ll make sure Jesse hears about it.

Before the inevitable, “WTF dude, are you gonna post every stolen bike on here? People get their bikes stolen every day! Try Craigslist and next time triple-lock your bike to the radiator in your bedroom.” No, we don’t post every stolen bike on here, but we do post the ones from readers in the Mission who ask us nicely and we have been able to help recover stolen things before. So if you can spare the 2 seconds out of your busy weekend schedule to glance at this bike, then cool. If not, then no big deal.

Twitterer @holleratme snapped this shot on MUNI:

That’s a bit harsh isn’t it? I prefer the kid-friendly signs at the Daly City BART station:

Congratulations to @ronjamesfisher, I guess. At least someone is a winner here.

You guys! California Sunshine is the best! Each song is catchier than the last, bandleader Aaron looks great in cutoffs, and his band is a ghetto blaster! What more could you ask for?

Well, how about a song that Aaron informs us is about San Francisco and is I think called “Vampires” and which starts out, “SUCK ON ME WHILE I SUCK ON YOU,” as the finale? How’d that be?

It was really good. See California Sunshine next time you get a chance.

Out of nowhere, a girl on huge heels staggers up to a pair of dudes smoking outside Amnesia and asks to bum a cigarette. One dude goes, “Jeez, lady,” but then mulls it over for a second, and says, “I charge one joke per cigarette.”

Smart! But does this work? Or maybe fiending for cigarettes hinders one’s ability to bust a quick funny?

(I didn’t stick around for her joke because California Sunshine was about to go on inside.)

Photo by prawnpie.