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Or maybe they’re all gone already. But it’s probably worth heading over quick. At the very least, you can take advantage of the Early Bird Special:

(Thanks, Rob!)

Can’t wait!

[via Primo]

American Tripps is tonight! Starts at 7, ends around 11. Further details are here.

What fun!

[Photo by Doctor Popular] [Animation by Vic Wong]

The Apartment, a store near 18th and Valencia, has an entire drawer full of old “Asian/Orientals” photos!

Yeah I have a stockpile of these too: my grandma’s house. Whatever they are charging, I’ll give ‘em to you for half.

[via Yelp]

By now you’ve probably heard of the tragic and senseless shooting of the Hog & Rocks cook who was mistaken for a gang member this week.

If you want to donate to the family to help with their funeral costs, you can stop by Hog & Rocks at 3431 19th Street, or go to a Wells Fargo branch (there’s one on Mission and 22nd, and Mission and 16th). Ask to make a donation to account number 3114477635 under the name of “Francisco Puch-Tzek”.

[via MissionLoc@l]

Our pal Broke-Ass Stuart explains:

It says “Dead cat. Do not touch. Will be picked up by 9:30,” and there was in fact a dead cat in there.

I asked him how he’d confirmed this fact:

The tail was sticking out one side and an ear out the other.

VHS tapes are on sale for just $2 all month long at Faye’s Video. Faye’s explains, for those of you not in the know:

If you are too young to know what VHS is, it’s a black plastic thingy with tape in it. It’s about an inch in height, 5 inches in length and 3 inches in width. you put it into a VHS player. You are going to want to look at the tape to make sure the tape inside it was re-wound so that you can watch the movie from the beginning. If the tape is all the way wound to the left, it’s at the beginning. You may have to rewind it, using the reverse function on the Video Home System Cassette player.

The tape inside the Video Home System Cassette is magnetized. and there are crystals in the Video Home System cassette player that read the information on the tape, if you break the crystals in the VHS Player it will leak out black sparkly goop…

Crystals! Who knew!? Read on for a wee bit more hot VHS knowledge.

Check out Porto Franco’s new video of local hit-makers Quinn DeVeaux and Meklit Hadero covering the Arcade Fire! Didn’t know what to expect with this pairing of a classic rhythm and blues man and a folky world music songstress. The result sure is purdy:

Any requests? I’ll put in Huey Lewis and the News – The Power of Love, especially after the Hold Steady recently butchered it.

Our pals at Noise Pop are proudly presenting a pair of Archers of Loaf shows this weekend at GAMH, and they’d like to give away a pair of tickets to one of them to one lucky Mission Mission reader.

Tell us in the comments why you really really really wanna see the show. We’ll pick a winner based on merit and the winner will get a pair of tickets to one of this weekend’s shows. Contest ends at midnight tonight.

Buy tickets for Friday here; buy tickets for Saturday here.

I mean, this garage is right by SFMOMA, right?

Anyway, SFist seems to think it’s an actual accident. Boooring.

[via Storts]