Mission Mission

You love these guys, right? Here’s exactly what’s going down at their Disposal Film Festival appearance this Saturday at CELLspace:

The band will lead a VideoSong Workshop at 8, followed by a live performance. Learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs.

Bring your own camera and learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs. We’ll be featuring the resulting disposable films in the coming weeks!

Fun! Here’s the official poster:

View a complete event listing here.

Watch more Pomplamoose here.

From Missed Connections:

Dumpster Diver!!! – m4w – 34 (mission district)

You helped me find that big mac that fell in the dumpster yesterday. After we found it, we sat there and split it in two and scarfed it down. That was probably the hottest thing I’ve ever seen a woman do in my life. Would love to see you again and buy you a happy meal. If you see this PLEASE contact me!!

This sounds like a match made in heaven.  If you’re the Happy Meal mystery lady looking for her Hamburgler, go for it.

[photo via Jon Beckmann]

For every bike that goes missing, one bike is found (at least that’s how I hope it works!).

Is this your rad bike, or do you know who it belongs to?  If so, contact the guys over at MashSF, and you’ll be rewarded with karma points and warm fuzzies.

Tablehopper reports:

[T]he ladies of mini bar on Divisadero are opening a~SIX-LANE BOWLING ALLEY~ in the heart of the Mission.

Sommer Peterson and Molly Bradshaw’s project will also include a restaurant and full bar at the location (the cocktail program will be creative and down to earth). Plans are in the works to lease the kitchen to a seasoned professional or restaurant ready to expand.

The menu will not be greasy, the decor will not be kitschy, the bike parking will be plentiful. Is this the future of bowling? Read on.

This Saturday! Here’s the deal:

The event is one day designated as Shop For Japan. Businesses register as supporters on the site (www.shopforjapan.com) and are placed in a supporting business database, they also pledge to donate a percentage of their revenue on that day (Saturday, March 26) to a charity that fits their values and feelings regarding the situation in Japan.

There is a participant kit package download available from the site where business owners can print out an event poster to put in their front window both announcing their participation as well as the % and charity they will be supporting.

On the consumer end, people can access the site to see which businesses are a part of this event. Supporting local business, supporting Japan.

Businesses, sign up now!

Shoppers, pencil this in! (See here for a list of participating businesses.)

Know what I’m sayin’?

As Allan mentioned, I’m in Vietnam this week.

You would love it. It’s 90 degrees now. There are more $2 multi-colored fake Ray Bans than you can handle. Dudes just walk up to you on the street with them. Seriously, I buy two more pairs every time I leave the hotel. The pho costs about $2.50 and is as ubiquitous as McDonald’s. Banh Mi sandwiches? Like 50 cents. And then there’s the coffee…

Did you know the most expensive coffee in the world comes from Vietnam? This particular coffee goes for hundreds of dollars per pound in the US, but it’s about 10-15 bucks here. But that cute weasel on the package is not a mascot, it’s part of the manufacturing process.

You see, these are beans that have been eaten by a weasel (technically a civet), passed through its digestive system, and roasted. It’s called Kopi Luwak. Wikipedia says:

Coffee cherries are eaten by a civet for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet’s digestive tract the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry’s inner layers.

And what exactly does that accomplish?

Research by food scientist Massimo Marcone at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada showed that the civet’s endogenous digestive secretions seep into the beans. These secretions carry proteolytic enzymes which break down the beans’ proteins, yielding shorter peptides and more free amino acids.

Whatever you say, science dude. I can attest that the beans are the strongest, richest, most chocolatey coffee I’ve ever smelled. I have not tasted it yet, but I will be bringing some back. Is anyone curious?

Now that you mention it, I can think only of one other type of person that consumes substances that have been passed through anal cavities: a junkie.

Anyone who traverses this segment regularly knows how hectic this connector between the Mission and Potrero Hill can be for cyclists, but it’s so nice to climb this hill every morning that I often take this street even though flatter routes like Harrison are available.  Now, it looks like it will be a little safer for everyone!  I noticed faint outlines last week, but this week it looks like they’ve finally gotten started.  Bike lanes!

Cowabunga Dudes!  Free pizza inside, right?

Sadly, no.  Turtle soup.  Looks like the turtles themselves couldn’t even pass this godforsaken level (can you?).  And that’s even after that blasted damn!

After seeing all of our bloody mary hullabaloo last week, Jessi from Thieves Tavern got in touch to make sure everyone knew that a tasty bloody mary without anchovy paste is being served every Sunday from noon to five (with free pita, chips, and hummus too)!

They’re 6 dollars and really good and spicy…I use vegan worcestershire sauce, and pack ‘em with pickled and spicy veggies

Sounds scrumptious!  We might have to stop by this weekend during our MM Bloody Mary Tour.  What’s that?  Haven’t yet heard?  Well, since so many different spots were described so fanatically by so many different commenters, we figured we had to try to find out which was the BEST.  To remedy that, we’re embarking on a tour this weekend to hit up all of the favorite spots.

So far, we’re thinking 500 Club, Zeitgeist, Bender’s, Thieves, the Phonebooth, the Attic, and Pop’s.  Any other ones we’ve missed?  The schedule is TBD, but rest assured that it’s happening this weekend and that there will be scorecards!  Oh, and we definitely wouldn’t mind a little company if anyone wants to come along!

[Photo by the ever-talented Ariel]