Mission Mission

This looks like the scariest place to spend the night EVER.

(on Mission @ Valencia)

Photographer Laura Brunow Miner loves this view, so she stops and snaps a pic every time she’s up there, which must be a lot because there are currently 70 pictures in this set: “Views of a View”

This view will cease to exist when the new-and-improved Dolores Park debuts sometime soon, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Positive Destruction, the local music blog devoted to writing even more Oh Sees posts than I do, just put together a year-end best-of list:

The Bay Area absolutely smashed it in 2011, with some of our favorite artists releasing amazing albums, EPs and cassettes that we’ve been listening to endlessly this year. It was incredibly difficult to cull the past 12 months to our favorite 15 releases, but we did it anyway.

Thee Oh Sees’ “Carrion Crawler/The Dream” double-EP (pictured above) gets the #1 spot, which is fair, but I gotta say I think I like the Mikal Cronin record even better, so definitely buy it for the garage rocker on your shopping list. Read on for lots and lots of locally made gift ideas.

Vegetarians rejoice, Soul Groove now has you covered. Allison has the scoop:

Waffles, fake chicken and coleslaw. I think the dude said they also have some kind of fried green tomato thing.

Yeah!

[via C'mon, Pony!]

Only $200 in Monopoly currency per house! And think of all the extra income you’ll be raking in once you save up for a hotel.

[via the Minutes]

You’ve undoubtedly wandered past many murals here in the Mission.  Perhaps you’ve wondered how they originally got there, or perhaps you don’t even give a shit.  Should your proclivities tend towards the former, however, here are two distinct behind-the-scene looks of how it all goes down.  Above, there’s some serious ladder action going on for a mural in progress on the side of Casa Guadalupe at 26th Street, with more pics of the process here.  Below, check out a sweet timelapse of a commissioned mural now residing by the corner of Bartlett and 24th.

Study hard, then try it yourself (at home)!

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This babe Melissa (not pictured) just wrote a post looking back at some memorable dates she’s been on, one of which took place in the Mission:

It is the local hipster coffee shop’s one year anniversary blow-out prom party, by exclusive invitation. The very cute owner of my favorite bar asks to take me. We end up on sort of a double-date with another couple who are also on a first date. We dance, we laugh, we take goofy pictures. We pile into a van to go to an after-party. The girl on the other date is showing everyone her tattoos. “I got this tattoo of plaid because, I dunno, I just like plaid?” she says. Date and I had bonded earlier over people with dumb tattoos. “What’s the writing on your chest?” he asks. “It’s a line from my favorite Decemberists song: ‘You Are the Heart That I Call Home.’”

Read on for the dramatic conclusion.

[Completely unrelated photo by Little Miss Chocolate Syrup]

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This Thursday, Noise Pop presents a special party at the Cal Academy featuring The Ferocious Few. Here’s the deal:

Noise Pop is proud to announce our partnership with Nightlife at California Academy of Sciences. Every couple months we’ll join forces with Nightlife to bring unique and exciting programming to this beautiful and living space. On December 8th, we’re bringing The Ferocious Few to the museum so they can pummel their way through a powerhouse set of pop gems.

Having mostly seen these guys playing on dirty Mission street corners, it’ll be extra special to see them in a world-class science museum. To win tickets, tell us your best Ferocious Few-related anecdote in the comments section below. A winner will be chosen based on merit. Contest ends at noon this coming Wednesday.

Buy tickets here.