Amidst this week’s media blitz surrounding our neighbor to the south, La Lengua, our buddy Cranky Old Mission Guy (who just launched a new website this week btw) came up with the best rechristening idea I’ve heard since I first heard “La Lengua” oh so many eons ago:
My new name for the area of the Mission around the 16th Street BART plaza is “Royal Gate”, after the plastic vodka bottles strewn everywhere.
Totally! Sixteenth and Mission is totally a royal gateway — in the exact same way that this crummy vodka is “royal.” Perfect!
(Thanks to our other buddy SCUM for finding the above photo.)
[Photo via Kute 'n' Krispy]
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Deano is always hanging out in Royal Gate. http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/deanogotdrunk
Oops. Here’s the better link.
http://deanogotdrunk.tumblr.com/
If we’ve got to rename this neighborhood, why not Piss Plaza?
that’s funny. my friend called her house the royal gate for years and it was on 17th and guerrero, so it’s in the right place!
17th and capp, the mission’s frat row?
actually i call that general area the whiz triangle. that’s an old one.
Ha ha, Royal Gate, good one Crank!
Much cheerier than Heroin Hangout.
Or “The Capital of Crack!”
I usually call it Crackistan.
I believe “Crackistan” is that liquor store on Mission between 17th & 18th across from Thrift Town.
As someone who’s been on the Internet since the BBS and Lynx browser days, I’m amused that having a Tumblr page is now considered “Launching a Website”
You kids today have no idea how hard it could be to create a Winsock32 connection in the BeforeTime.
“…..our buddy Cranky Old Mission Guy (who just launched a new website this week btw)”
Sorry about that — Allan probably wrote it on his phone.
Although you’d be amazed at just how difficult to understand all these social web things are for dim-witted old farts such as myself.
Are you over 50? I am.
Muchly.
Do you have an AARP card? I have a little over 2 years before I proudly carry mine.
Those assholes keep pestering me, too. Their market research borders on identity theft.
I started to get mail and emails from them when I turned 42, the bastards just can’t wait.
So are hipsters Royal Gate crashers?
I thought this idea was kinda dumb at first glance, but on my way to work I passed a bottle of Royal Gate on the sidewalk. So maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all.
Royal Gate is $9.99 for a 1.75LT plastic bottle at BevMo.
We used to drink that sheez in high school. it is horrible. but it also helped me see my first boob, so i guess it can’t be all bad.
BTW, the link to my “new” “website” (Tumblr) above is dead (because I’ve changed the name a couple of times), but you can still go there if you click my name on this comment. Sorry, no more Mission posts.