Mission Mission

The Tens has the scoop.

I sat at one of those tables at Bender’s that has all those IDs in it and doodled a few of them. None of these look like the people they’re supposed to be. Who wants to jump in and help me get the rest? Especially if you draw women, I have a hard time with women. With drawing them.

Also, I like the way they used some kind of little hot poker to stick into the resin and obscure the ID numbers and some people’s personal details.

More doodles inside this post.

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Well, not really.  But this is what it would look like if we did!  As you can see, I’ve been having a little bit too much fun with the Geocities-izer today instead of blogging about important news.  Try not to let yourself be similarly distracted!

[Thanks (for nothing) Mike Z!]

Despite my essay about McLaren Park being awesome, it could surely benefit from a $30,000 makeover.

Sears wants to foot the bill for one such makeover, for one lucky park somewhere in the United States. Problem is, it’s a contest, and McLaren is currently getting its ass kicked by some park in Chesapeake, Virginia. Your votes can change all that. Vote McLaren!

Thanks for the tip, Yatima! More coverage at SFist.

P.S. That hazardous old swing set is kind of badass though, don’t you think?

Mikey snapped this pic and tweeted about it a little bit ago, so I tried to do some reporterly sleuthing and asked him about ‘em:

Sadly, scrumptious though they looked I didn’t bite the bait

Anybody else bite the bait?

Photo, title and everything by Mike Chino.

Previously:

Mission Minis Opens Grandly

Mission Minis Shut Down Unceremoniously

I’ve gotta figure out a way to do this with my stack of milk crates full of CDs I never listen to.

Photo by kapshure.

Hopefully it’s finally within Dov Charney’s price range, right? Can you imagine!?

Curbed SF has the full report.

Previously:

Single-Family Cathedral For Sale

Some kind of crime or something was committed at Beauty Bar last night!! Or near Beauty Bar. Maybe. Christi reports:

Anybody know what happened last night @ or by Beauty Bar? Police cars, firetrucks, crowds on the street, oh my!!

More importantly, do you guys think there is a crime being committed in this completely unrelated photo I just found?

UPDATE: Torrey fills us in: “A bartender kicked some dude out for groping girls, dude started a fight, and a third party maced them both, which, as you can imagine, exacerbated the situation.  Authorities were summoned.  Not a whole lot of fun for anyone involved (I wasn’t there but the bartender is a friend. A friend who, I might add, often puts himself in harm’s way in order to protect the honor/safety of his patrons.  Three cheers for chivalry).” Thanks, Torrey!

Photo by ava berlin.

If somebody had told me the Walk Against Rape was really a Dance Against Rape, I might’ve joined the ranks. (I love to dance.)

Discovered by MrEricSir on Valencia near 16th.

But MrEricSir suspects Ivan Reitman’s involvement, and I concur — note the proximity to the Slimer Tree that Ariel discovered on 15th St.

If only the meters were a series of pastel colors, then we could blame Warhol’s ghost.

UPDATE: Perhaps someone is protesting, as Chicago saw last year?

Maybe it’s the shut-down-Valencia-to-cars movement embodying Burnham’s ghost — his 1905 plan for SF had two long, giant parks, one down Capp and the other along 23rd: