Mission Mission

The age-old dilemma.  You show up at Zeitgeist famished and order one of their delicious burgers.  You do the time and wait the requisite 10-15 minutes while anxiously downing a beer, your mouth salivating from the aroma emanating from the grill and your ears perking up every time the cook shouts another name across the yard (or wait–I guess they don’t do that anymore?).

Finally, the moment of truth arrives, and just as you sit down back at your table ready to devour that poor defenseless hamburger, your hear that familiar siren song, “Tamales, tamales!”  But damn, you just got a burger!  What to do, what to do?

The Zeigeist Tamale Burger.  That’s what you do.  An unholy alliance of beef, bun, masa, pork, and Tapatio.  Take that KFC Double-Down!

Did you get a chance to spend some time and chill out in one of those temporary parklets this past Friday?  If not, here’s a peek at what you missed at PARKing Day 2010.  [Disclaimer:  NO SAVESIES were used in the commandeering of these parking spots]

As expected, the longtime PARKing veterans in front of Lost Weekend and Ritual Coffee went all out with a 3-meter spot featuring a camping ground complete with a tent on top of real sod and a portable forest of potted plants.  Attention to detail such as the inclusion of a panda clinched a mention as one of the best parklets of the day.

Similarly, the fine folks at SPUR also created a parklet so kickin’ it probably would have qualified for their useful map of POPOS (Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces) had it been a permanent thing.

Despite the fact that not all the parklets were as thoughtfully orchestrated, that didn’t stop people from getting into the spirit of the day.  As this fellow proves, all you really needed was a swatch of AstroTurf and a juvenile tree.

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See him? See him? Ribity wore his way right through solid rubber!

And get this: The author of Many Machines was going to toss these shoes out, but don’t worry, I pointed out his folly and he promises to “put them under glass and charge admission.” I’d pay $15 to see it in the flesh as long as my ticket comes with a souvenir t-shirt.

Previously:

Rabbit-Drag Ribity (With Foot-Long Dong)

Ribity Loves Ribity (First Mission Mission post ever!)

It has something to do with rich people getting richer, and it probably won’t go anywhere near Bayshore Blvd. Ice Tubes has the full story.

Photo by Anne Hansen.

Appendages of Cool, whose anonymous author is pictured here, just published a short story, written years ago, when the author was in college and perceived herself to be “real deep.” Here’s an excerpt:

So Anna and I sat and watched two scrappy adorable dogs playfully chasing each other, biting each others’ necks and rolling in the grass. “Wouldn’t it be great if you could just chase people you liked around and just sink your chompers in? Like hey, I like you, get it?” Anna asked. We often talked about awkward mating practices, how hard it was to snag our crushes and make them kiss us. We also talked about racism and class, how we hoped the country we lived in, whose quality of rational life was declining daily, needed some sort of revolution to make itself right.

Read on.

Photographer Jason Schlachet (of the Ohio Schlachets) has some thoughts on why “the kiss” is such a special sub-genre of street photography:

[I]t’s tricky to get right since you need to be close up, focusing, and yet not interrupting (or even be noticed during) the moment.

Read the rest, and see the above kiss (at 16th and Valencia) in its entirety, here.

That’s right, somebody scrawled “GOD IS DEAD” on the door of a church in the Mission. Is it a hate crime? Was it KKKatie, out on bail? Or is it viral marketing for some new show on FX?

Click here to view the full photo by photographer Oscar Arriola.

In this, the video for “Fun Just Slacking Off” by Please Quiet Ourselves, we get a look at the public urination situation at Fort Mason, which is perhaps another candidate for “the new Dolores Park” (not). Here’s the whole video:

[via SFist]

Previously:

Fun With Public Urination

So asserts Fayes Video‘s Mike McConnell in yesterday’s SFoodie piece about Mission merchants’ opposition to Blue Bottle’s planned Dolores Park cart operation:

“My concern with Blue Bottle is that they’re going national [Last February, Blue Bottle opened a cafe in Brooklyn]. Two years ago in this neighborhood there was a huge fight to keep American Apparel off Valencia Street, and now this.” McConnell thinks a smaller coffee roaster without a retail presence ― like De La Paz ― might be a better fit.

Thanks to this opposition, Blue Bottle’s plans have been put on hold, pending a community meeting. Read on.

Photo by oolong milktea.

Previously:

De La Paz Coffee Company: The Only Coffee Outfit in Town Run by a Grown Man

Levi’s, the New American Apparel?

For rilz.