Mission Mission

Here’s the deal:

Its official, we are leaving Clooney’s. After a fun filled 3+ years, we have decided to be more mobile. We will be doing monthly pop ups in different bars and restaurants around town. Our last day will be Friday July 11. Thanks to all that visited us at the Clooney’s location. Looking forward to seeing you around town.

Sweet, now we never have to go to Clooney’s ever again!

[via The Galley on Facebook]

In terms of quantity, this definitely doesn’t top the 45 songs I sang in May, but it was still a good month:

1. Hounds of Love – The Futureheads
2. Supersoaker – Kings of Leon
3. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
5. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again – The Angels
6. Too Much Time on My Hands – Styx
7. Reflektor – Arcade Fire
8. Silly Love Songs – Wings
9. Real Wild Child – Iggy Pop
10. You Don’t Know How It Feels – Tom Petty
11. Let Me Go – Cake
12. Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town – Kenny Rogers
13. I’m Sticking with You – The Velvet Underground
14. Conquest – The White Stripes
15. Country Girl – Primal Scream
16. Dancing in the Moonlight – Thin Lizzy
17. Baby, I Love You – Ramones
18. Love Stinks – J. Geils Band

And the lesson remains the same: karaoke is super fun, the karaoke scene here in SF is pretty killer, and you can sing a wide variety of cool songs if you want.

(I like going to DJ Purple on Tuesdays at Tupelo in North Beach and Thursdays at Slate here in the Mission, KJ Paul on Saturdays at SoMa StrEat Food Park sometimes, and Roger Niner at Butter on Sundays. How bout you?) (Oh and I sang “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town” at this awesome dive in Santa Monica called the Gaslite.)

Two beautiful photos of San Francisco. The first is by Diana Kathleen Bradbury; the second is by Capp Street Crap.

Recipe:

1 leftover half tub of El Metate guacamole
1 leftover half tub of Mission Chinese Food vinegar peanuts

You take the leftover half tub of Mission Chinese vinegar peanuts and dump it in the leftover half tub of El Metate guacamole. Voila!

It’s damn good.

Local renter David Enos experienced an utter bummer the other day:

Someone pooped through our front gate somehow, starting mid-way up, I guess it must have been accomplished with butt resting against the bars in a standing position.  How do you clean this up? We don’t have access to a hose, so I started by throwing a bucket of hot water on it from a few feet away.  A fine mist of water and feces hung in the air.  I went back out with some powdered Ajax and sprinkled it on the remaining mess.  The wind picked up and my throat burned with inhaled bleach.

Pretty awful, but… read on for the secondary problem.

5+ years ago was the first time we heard about this project. Today it opened!

[via SF Department of Public Works on Twitter]

Wow, that’s a cool hat.

[via Gareth]

Just look out for those Black Hawks.

[via 2cute2puke]

I’m not totally sure it was actually a good idea, but it was fun. Here’s info:

Herbsaint first appeared in 1934.[1] It was the creation of J. Marion Legendre and Reginald Parker of New Orleans, who learned how to make absinthe while in France during World War I.[1] It first went on sale following the repeal of Prohibition, and was unique in its category as an absinthe substitute, as opposed to a pastis.[1] Herbsaint was originally produced under the name “Legendre Absinthe”, although it never contained Grande Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). The Federal Alcohol Control Administration soon objected to Legendre’s use of the word “absinthe”,[2] so the name was changed to “Legendre Herbsaint”. The Sazerac Company bought J.M. Legendre & Co. in June 1949. Herbsaint was bottled at 120 proof and 100 proof for many years, but the recipe was modified in the mid-1950s, when Herbsaint began being bottled at 100 proof and 90 proof. By the early 1970s the 100 proof variation was discontinued, and the 90 proof version remains the predominant Herbsaint available today. In December 2009, the Sazerac Company reintroduced J.M. Legendre’s original 100 proof recipe as Herbsaint Original.[3]

The name Herbsaint originates from “Herbe Sainte” (Sacred Herb), the French/Creole term for Artemisia absinthium and except for the letter r is an anagram of absinthe. [link]

Omg I love anagrams.