Mission Mission

Someone stop this vandal!

How shitty were your teenage years?  Well, now you have a chance to make someone else’s teen years a little less shitty than yours while also enjoying a fun night out in the Mission with The Blunder Years, a variety show drawing upon and paying homage to the films & TV shows of our yester years.  All proceeds for the event are going to BAVC’s The Factory, an advanced video production collective for motivated teenagers in Oakland.  Check out the details below:

An amazing roster of talent is joining the show, with acts by Mortified, We Players, The Freeze, Monday Night Foreplays, Ned Buskirk, Lev Yilmaz & Strike Anywhere. And, in support of our very own version of Price is Right, a plethora of local businesses have donated prizes in sponsorship of the event, including Teatro Zinzanni, The Independent, and Speakeasy Ales & Lagers.

Friday, August 12th

450 Florida Street, SF

@ Z Space

Doors @ 7, show @ 8

21+ only. $15 pre-sale, $20 at the door.

Info & tix available at www.blunderyears.com

We’re also giving away one Price is Right entry ticket, which gets you into the running to be a contestant in one of three game rounds during the Price is Right portion of the show!  All you have to do is tell us your best (or worst) teenage drama story in the comments!  You have until Tuesday, when we’ll pick the best one.  Let’s hear those stories!

Tune in to Radio Valencia tonight at 8pm for an interview with my band, La Corde, on Baghdad by the Bay!  This is in anticipation of our show tomorrow at the Hemlock with G Green and Waldo Astoria, the latter of whom will also be on the radio directly after us.

We’ll be spinning records from our favorite bands and talking shit about everyone we know, so it’s worth a listen if you’re around!  Check out the all details for tonight’s interview here.

Heh.

[Photo by Robby Virus]

One of the most dangerous intersections in the Mission is now getting a bit safer with the inclusion of some long-awaited bicycle lane striping! Previously, navigating the dangerous Hairball Gauntlet has been extraordinarily treacherous for cyclists, especially those turning right off the skybridge from Cesar Chavez to Potrero who are expected to contend with merging traffic exiting from the 101.  While this spells things out a little more clearly, until they stencil in that bicycle guy (hopefully with pink helmets), drivers will still probably get confused.

Hopefully we won’t need to get the tank.

(BTW, I totally messed up by not taking the photo directly 180 degrees from this point of view so you can see what I’m talking about regarding the merging 101 traffic–this shortcoming will be ameliorated soon)

Memo to all aspiring San Francisco mayoral candidates: whichever one of you does this first is totally getting my vote.

Link.

(Thanks J-man!)

Watch out! That object moving towards your face is actually MOVING TOWARDS YOUR FACE!

Disclaimer: No one was injured during documentation of first person view or anytime thereafter.

As our pal Charles demonstrates so adeptly here, fur is back, but only the living kind. No need to worry about the PETA protest, but try to get a dark one because the light ones stain easily.

The rusted hull of the official GWAR summer camp van. Don’t you wish your parents sent you to a rad camp like this instead of some Tom Sawyer or Boy Scout nonsense when they wanted to get rid of you for the summer?

Previously:

GWAR Porta-Potty

You know how people always make fun of rednecks living in the South who insist on keeping their broken down automobiles parked on their front lawn despite the fact that these vehicles have no hope of functioning ever again?

Well, in that case, a broken down scooter that’s been parked on the sidewalk in front of your shared flat in the Mission for so long that plants are growing through it definitely qualifies as the hipster equivalent.

Which means . . . I’m living down the street from hipster rednecks.