Mission Mission

Ash Reiter has been one of our favorite local bands for years now. This holiday season, they’re offering a free download of a new Christmas song. Check it out here.

Ryan is a local artist who happens to love printing up killer shirts with trippy imagery or weird messages. There are tons to choose from, and they’re all great. Today only, you can get a deep discount if you buy two.

Jihaari is one of our favorite local artists (and karaoke singers). He’s got some custom decks up for sale right now, and for just $30 apiece. Purchase (or get in touch with him to see more pics or find out more details) here.

David Cole is one of the geniuses that redesigned our blog for us earlier this year. Now he’s moved on to bigger and better things, namely the creation of custom Lego sets with custom-procured Lego pieces and hand-drawn instruction booklets.

I am excited to officially launch my shop with the release of the deer LEGO kit. I’ve tried building it with real pieces now, and I need to make a couple structural changes, but it will look the same. Also, I’m hand drawing the graphics for the instruction manual, which should be fun and painstaking.

Read on for the full story and pics of the instruction booklets, or just buy the kit here. Orders must be in by December 5th if you want it in time for Christmas. (David’s shop also has a kickass homemade crossword puzzle for sale.)

Says our pal Do Vulcan Tits Defy Logic:

these oyster po’ boys fucking rock. get some. [link]

Can do.

Found on the patio of a local dive bar.

[via Ultracore]

Well, not exactly a ketchup gumball, but a gumball-sized container of ketchup.  Our pal Laurie explains:

i put in 25 cents into the gumball machine at Bender’s and got this little plastic thing full of ketchup. not the weirdest thing that’s happened tonight, but maybe the most fucked up

Perhaps this is their way of charging extra for condiments?  Regardless, that’s a lot of Leann Rimes songs available for karaoke!

Previously:

Start Your Own Mission Gumball Empire for $60

Gumball Empire Solution

Gumball Baby Head

It’s spider season. Watch your step.

[via Storts]

Doctor Popular is the creative force behind this diorama, which was installed early this morning in an empty newspaper dispenser on Market Street:

I’ve been wanting to do some sort of installations inside of the abandoned newspaper receptacles spread throughout our city, so I spent most of Thanksgiving creating a diorama of the UC Davis pepper spray incident which was installed in an empty newspaper bin on Market Street this morning (Black Friday). My hope was to install a piece to get people thinking about recent police violence while they were trying to do their holiday shopping. If I had more time I would have created many more dioramas based on scenes from New York and Oakland.

Read on for the full story and lots more pics. And here’s hoping Doc has more fun with abandoned news racks in the future.

Mission Mission on Tumblr picked up on this news early yesterday and posted the mp3 for all to hear. It’s sure to cure your holiday blues. Click through to listen:

Dido – “Thank You” (Myles’ Retune)