Mission Mission

I guess they were running out of barge space at Fisherman’s Wharf.

[Photo by fredsharples]

DocPop posted a piece on why he spends a shit-ton of money on clothes. Sure, looks are probably part of it, but there are also practical reasons: better fits, longevity, and breathability. For example:

Through working this intimately with denim I learned to ditch polysynthetics and embrace cotton, wool, and leather. Not only do these materials breath better, but leather and cotton have the bonus of getting better looking with age.

I know lots of folks have differing opinions on this, but we definitely have an artificial sense of the value of clothes. Have you ever tried to make them? I have a crafty friend who started to get into it and said, “I don’t know why all dresses don’t cost like $500, this shit is hard.”

Read on over at DocPop.

You should totally go to this and support laughs: Uptown Almanac is throwing a comedy bash featuring some of our favorite local stand-up comedians, including Sean Keane and Chris Garcia, at the Roxie tomorrow, Tuesday May 10th.

It’s only $6.50 and there will be lots of complimentary PBR to go around! So if you drink six, that’s like a $3 value. Starts at 7:30pm. We’ll be there, so if you want to take out the entire Mission blogging community all at once, that’s your chance to strike.

Presale tix are available here.

Margaret sent this in and said it was found at the 24th street BART.

At first this was puzzling to me. Then I realized that if you’re waiting for the T at 24th and Mission, then you’d have enough time to have a plaque made about it, ’cause it aint showing up anytime soon.

Please, if you have small children, distract them with some Handi Snacks while viewing this photo:

This is a disturbing image of discarded cheese after last year’s book release party for “Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge” at Amnesia. We debated on whether or not to release this photo for months, but decided that the public deserves to know.

The book was written by Gordon “Zola” Edgar, a cheesemonger at Rainbow Grocery. It’s all about how cheese is made and sold. I hear it’s damn funny to boot. You should check it out if you like cheese (and I think you do).

[Photo by Jutta, via Gordonzola]

Before you can enter, you must answer the following riddle:

Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?

[Snapped near 20th and Lexington by Jesse]

My brother posted this amazing postcard on Wonglr and added:

There’s nothing I don’t like about this old San Francisco postcard. The bountiful dungeness crab harvest. The red berets & ’70s ‘staches. Is that Charles Bronson in the back there?

I’m not sure, but Mr. Bronson just might be in town to clean up these streets:

Youth Outlook TV interviewed a couple of young Latin American Mission natives about growing up in gangs, recent gang injunctions, and something that rhymes with “smentrification”.

This is a good time to point out how awesome the Mexican flag is, according to local funnyman Sean Keane in this video:

Happy Cinco de Mayo, all.

In case you missed my Vietnam live-blogging last month, I picked up some distinctively shitty coffee during my travels. Literally shitty. This coffee is called Kopi Luwak, and it has the unique production process of being eaten by a weasel, shat out, and roasted. It is the most expensive coffee in the world, which obviously means it’s the best. Funny, because you’d think it would be number 2.

After my post, several junkies predictably came forward and took my open invitation to try it out. In fact, most “coffee people” who hear about this crap don’t think twice about giving it a sip. What is it about coffee? I mean, I also love pizza, but if you told me the best pizza was the kind regurgitated by bears I would probably pass.

Anyway, I invited a crack-team over to sample this stuff with the condition that they write down their thoughts for the rest of you to enjoy. Read on, if you want to get the poop, err scoop:

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