Mission Mission

Drawings by Mike Hales, Jamaica Dyer, Doc Pop and me.

(Jamaica, Mike, Doc and Ariel)

(Mike and Ariel)

(Mike and Ariel)

There’s also a good plate one that someone else has somewhere out there. If you want to come out and doodle next time check Doc Pop’s Tweets for the next alert.

If you’re rad, you get a Timmy Lincecast. Our pal Dana is rad:

In case you missed it, catch up on the rest of Dana’s epic war story here.

Therese (and that’s pronounced “Thur-eece”) stumbled upon some kind of archive (or possibly a seriously old back issue of Tobin’s Spirit Guide) full of antique pictures of San Francisco. This one is the gem, as it depicts the calm with which the hard-nosed San Franciscans of old faced the certain horror of a brush with an interdimensional oppressor like Gozer the Traveler.

And then, after the Destructor was finished, survivors gathered in Dolores Park. Where else?

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Environmental Protection Agency Shuts Down Ghost-Busting Operation

Yeah, they’re making Tintin.

[Photo by A Personal Inventory]

Previously:

Microsoft Street Art

It’s called The Birth of Big Air and it contains scenes like this. See that litle dude on a bike about a 300 feet above the lip of that ramp? That’s Mat Hoffman, BMX superstar and star of the film, which looks at how the rad world of BMX got even radder.

Jeff Tremaine of Jackass is director, and Spike and Johnny Knoxville are producers, and it’s screening Saturday at the Victoria Theater as part of this year’s Bicycle Film Festival. (What’s that? You still haven’t been inside the Victoria Theater? Tsk tsk.)

Here’s the invite with a few more pertinent details:

And here’s the trailer:

To win a pair of tickets, leave a comment below relating your best BMX-related story. We will pick a winner based on merit. Contest closes Friday at noon.

Or you can always just buy tickets here.

We all know anything with a “McDonald’s” in the headline is going to get some good traffic in San Francisco, but responsible reporting by Mission Local reveals that this latest thing is not really a thing:

The Recreation and Parks department confirmed that the documents, obtained through the Sunshine Ordinance, are indeed theirs. Elton Pon, spokesman for the department, said many of the contacts listed, totaling over 900, had requested information about concessions opportunities.

“We are required to include all companies that request to be placed on our contact list for potential vendor opportunities,” wrote Pon in an email to Mission Loc@l. “It is not staff’s role to determine who to exclude from the list but to include all who show interest in these opportunities and allow the selection process to run its course,” he wrote.

Carry on. Or read on if you like.

[Photo by I Heart Street Art]

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This is a small part of a giant two-page Where’s Waldo?-style illustration genius cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt did for a sex manual we blogged about a few weeks back.

Do view the whole thing.

Streetsblog informs us that there’s a loophole in these new Clipper cards that lets enterprising transit riders game the bejesus out of BART.

Two-dollar trips to the furthest reaches of the Bay Area suburbs? Cool. Let’s check ‘em out. I hear Zachary’s Pizza is almost as good as Little Star.

But seriously, what’s your favorite thing to do in the ‘burbs? Everybody share, and whomever comes up with the best or most intriguing suggestion gets a pair of $2 Clipper cards free!!

[Self portrait by Mat Honan]

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Zoë Stagg is that rare San Francisco internet person who decided to give up her cushy day job and join the Army. Pretty dang rare, right?

But at least her San Francisco-internet-person pedigree landed her a choice post. Her mission this week? Running the social media for a multi-day training exercise. That’s correct.

And if she doesn’t get plenty of reblogs, it’s KP duty for a week! Or something. Anyway, do follow along.

Looks delicious and thirst-quenching, right? Like a south-of-the-border Acai-Blueberry Vitamin Water, right?

Wrong! It’s some kind of household cleaning product, which would explain why it’s shelved next to other household cleaning products:

Don’t drink it!

But seriously, this packaging is even more misleading than Four Loko’s packaging.