Mission Mission

Dolores Park Works reports that the playground renovations are 85% complete and it may open as soon as March. Planning is in progress for the opening party. I’m a little sad to see the Dolores Park pool go, but I think this will be a safer place for kiddos to observe adults engaging in casual drug use and public alcohol consumption.

The new Helen Diller Playground will feature a super slide, a natural climbing stone, and a “sound garden” (an anonymous donation from Chris Cornell?). It will also have designated areas for age groups 2-5 and 5-12. In fact, there will be a boat for younger kids, and a separate shipwrecked boat for the older ones–no doubt a metaphor for their soon-to-be broken hopes and dreams.

Agism? Maybe. I’ll never forget the first time I approached by a kid in a playground and told, “you’re too old to be playing here!” I was heartbroken, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it during the entire drive back to my apartment.

[photo and scoop via Dolores Park Works]

For Valentines Day, I bring you this Blammos video of Mission women scanning for an exit route.

Here’s a piece of GIF wizardry for those of you who have chosen 16th and Harrison’s Dear Mom as your pit stop.

[via Dolfapedia]

With hats, that is.

[Zoltron via Fecal Face]

This is disturbing. I’ve had some unpleasant interactions with that guy too, but it’s clear he’s not well. I don’t think following him up and down the street “calling him out” with schoolyard insults accomplishes anything. I’ve always taken the convenient “leave him the-fuck-alone” approach.

Oh so this is where all those acappella guys in college ended up:

Ok, so this is meme-y, but it was filmed in Four Barrel:

While we’re on the subject of coffee snobbery, anyone know how to get cafe-quality microfoam at home without dropping $500 on equipment? I wanna pour me some latte demon spawns.

[via sprudge]

When Cranky Old Mission Guy isn’t busy telling you damned kids to get off his stoop, he’s cooking up the latest in culinary cross-cultural fusion. Exhibit A: the Pizza-dilla:

Take a-holt of an even number of left-over slices of pizza. On half of them, spread evenly whatever left-over junk you have in your fridge. Turn the undecorated slices over, face-down, on the decorated slices. BURN THEM. Then flip and burn other side.

Bravo! Now wait as a food truck named Doña Corleone posts up in McCoppin Hub and charges $8 for one.

[via COMG]

Good news for you non-cable-having freeloaders (self-included):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp2TzxDWa0k

Yeah yeah yeah, it’s old news. But I haven’t seen this episode yet and just found this link. Watch in horror as Anthony Bourdain transforms your favorite hidden gems into perpetual shit-shows before your very eyes. See him go from “figs on a plate” to “two-fisted, meat-loving drinking town”. Quickly, before Food Network Travel Channel takes it down.

This morning I saw that Caffeinated Comics on Mission and Valencia had shut down as of Dec. 29 after almost 3 years in business. Major bummer. I never got a chance to visit myself, but I was looking forward to getting my fix there since moving to La Lengua last month. Anyone here know what’s up?

Maybe if they would have embedded some holograms and foil plating into the coffee cups and labeled them with “Cup #1, Limited Edition” they could have improved sales. Of course, then no one would drink the actual coffee, they’d just leave it in the polybag.