Mission Mission

Snapped this guy up on a telephone pole on 22nd/San Jose.

Maybe I’m being dense here, but I don’t get the metaphor. The joke definitely lies in the thumb head and the knightship, but I really can’t figure out how they’re related. Can anyone enlighten me? Please respond in iambic pentameter only.

I totally don’t get British humor. Oops, humour. If this is a Monty Python ref, I’m gonna be pissed.

What the eff, people?  Amyitis Gardens founder David Stockhausen is still just at #2 on The Huffington Post’s Hot Farmer contest, not #1 as per my request.  Would it kill you to vote for change?  It is Election Day, after all.

No idea when this contest ends, btw.  We might be here a while.

I’m totally digging this Cup-o-Noodles Benz.  Bourgeois-Bohemian.  Park outside Boogaloos.  Trying to be something its not.

It’s the automobile equivalent of the Mission District.

Sleep Hyphy, which might be the best wordpress account name ever created, has the scoop on these children picking up bottle caps in Dolores Park.

Speaking of hyphy, I was in Elbo Room not to long ago with a friend from the distant land of Oakland and the bartender, unprovoked, stated “hyphy is dead, dude.”  Just because your bar is the boil on the ass of Valencia St. doesn’t mean you can rain on other people’s parade, dude.

Listen up, the Mission district!  We need to rally together for a very special cause!

Local hot farmer David Stockhausen has been entered in The Huffington Post’s Hot Farmer contest!  Dave (no idea if he goes by Dave btw) was at #1 just this morning but has somehow slipped to #2.  We need to bump that shit back up!

Peep Farmer Dave here.  And here’s a li’l blurb about the gent:

David Stockhausen is the founder of Amyitis Gardens, a community-based farming project in San Francisco. The Amyitis mission is to educate and empower the Mission District community through food and farming. Amyitis links neighbors with neighborhood restaurants by cultivating backyard food gardens and exchanging the local produce for discounts on food and drinks. Amyitis provides local residents with the tools to farm their own yards, and restaurants with the most local produce possible- grown as close as a few blocks away.

My buddy Katie from Amyitis tells me produce grown in Mission backyards is then sold to places like The Corner and Weird Fish.  Yum.

The Mission positively framed in the national news, people!  Get on board already!  All you have to do is click a 10 on HuffPo here and we’re golden.

Good luck, David!

[Photo from Grub Street]

audrey awwwdamn snapped this cool shot of the crazy vine house on 17th at Church.

For some reason, the view of the house on Street View reminds me off all the octopus sticker art I see around the hood

(Octopus sticker art swiped from MM favorite EPA and Around the Bay)

… a hippie Benz!

Spotted in the Mission.  Well played, Benz.

(Update: Original shot from What I’m Seeing Dot Com)

From the “I-wish-I-thought-of-this-on-Saturday” department:

Pool party on 19th by Dolores Park.  Besides the amount of guilt associated with this and the inevitable angry letter from my landlord, this is a killer idea for another hot weekend.  These things will support the weight of a few lanky adults, right?

(photo Choyberg)

Green & Tonic is having a pub crawl this Saturday, September 19th through the three “greenest” bars in the Mission: Doc’s Clock, Casanova, and Elixir.

The start-up works with bars to reduce waste, water, and energy usage, and to encourage them to carry local and sustainable brews and spirits.

The event – called the Get Zerowasted Pub Crawl – starts at Doc’s at 4 p.m., moves to Casanova at 5:30, then ends at Elixir at 7.  Included: drink discounts, a green auction, a sustainable scavenger hunt.

Interesting idea for an organization – so bourgie boho!  And I’m curious to hear how they came up with Doc’s Clock, Casanova, and Elixir as our three greenest bars.

One time I saw a naked girl wearing only high heels sitting at the bar at Doc’s.  I guess that’s pretty green.