Mission Mission

Cool shirt! (Not quite as cool as that arugula shirt, but pretty cool.)

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Click through to this post by Sexpigeon for the full story.

Capp Street Crap is a wonderful blog, all about the Mission. (I link to it all the time, but I’ve been a little off the grid lately, so you should just follow it yourself.) In addition to charming posts about junk in the gutter on Capp Street, they do some killer in-depth reporting (like well more in-depth than anything we do). Here are some examples from recent weeks:

Officer-involved shooting at SFPD’s Mission Station

High-tech new trashcans at 16th and Mission

Difficulties reopening Capp Street theater/venue the Lost Church

Get to work!

“…a piece of shit,” says my esteemed colleague Vic Wong, taker of this lovely ‘gram:

And he’s absolutely right. All the pretty stairs in SF — we should all be getting our fill!

This is a portion of an academic work called “The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron in 1995, which was 20 years ago:

This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech industries of Silicon Valley. Promoted in magazines, books, tv programmes, Web sites, newsgroups and Net conferences, the Californian Ideology promiscuously combines the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies. This amalgamation of opposites has been achieved through a profound faith in the emancipatory potential of the new information technologies. In the digital utopia, everybody will be both hip and rich. Not surprisingly, this optimistic vision of the future has been enthusiastically embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, innovative capitalists, social activists, trendy academics, futurist bureaucrats and opportunistic politicians across the USA. As usual, Europeans have not been slow in copying the latest fad from America. While a recent EU Commission report recommends following the Californian ‘free market’ model for building the ‘information superhighway’, cutting-edge artists and academics eagerly imitate the ‘post-human’ philosophers of the West Coast’s Extropian cult. With no obvious rivals, the triumph of the Californian Ideology appears to be complete.

Read on for lots more prescient stuff, and stuff about Reagan, Vietnam, the myth of the free market, immortality — and how it all relates to the Californian Ideology.

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Indeed, I’ve had some very jrugken nights on 16th.

#jrugk

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@ScannerSays was locked down inside Serrano's pizza for over 30 min. Cops say CSI on the way

— Allison Shiman (@theshiman) December 28, 2014

I can think of worse places to be locked down.

Just a little social commentary from the great Ryan Christopher Parks:

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