Mission Mission

Renée (pictured) walks us through a tough one:

“We like brain puzzles here. Do you like brain puzzles?”

I can’t think of anything I like less, sir.

He begins. “Get out some paper.”

“You have 22 socks in a drawer. Half are red, half are green. If you are choosing them randomly, how long before you have a pair?”

The answer is three, of course. And I come to that eventually, though not before I am done administering fractional half-lives and pension plans for each individual sock.

“Simple thinking is the virtue of the unimaginative!” I say, losing.

You see, she’s too creative a thinker for her own good. Read on for more brain puzzles and whimsy.

Previously:

Monday Morning Fashion Triumph

It was reported a couple weeks ago that the old Delano’s space was close to becoming a Fresh & Easy. Now it appears there’s a new possibility. Reader Lisa C. explains:

Heard from Supervisor Campos’ office last week that there are bids in
from two places to lease the building that was Delano’s: a place
called FRESH AND EASY and then one called Grocery Outlet.

They both seem kinda weird but the latter seems less desireable from
what I’ve heard.  Apparently the contact person in the Mayor’s Office
is Lisa Pagan, in the office of workforce / economic development or
something like that.

I wonder when the public hearing is?

Yes, I wonder.

[Original image by Curbed SF]

Previously:

Delano’s Going

Going

Gone

I guess I should start leaving the Mission once in a while.

[Photo by Man Freckles]

A steady, bellowing Gooooooooooooooooooooool emanated from within.

I think the driver said his business is called Scumbag Rickshaw or something like that, and that I could find him on Facebook. But I can’t find it, and I’m pretty sure it’s actually not “Scumbag.” My memory of this is a little foggy. Somebody help me out?

As you can see here, Google Maps Street View’s face-blurring algorithm has taken to blurring the faces of luchador masks, whether they’re on somebody’s face or not. So, rest assured, if the Google Maps Street View car catches El Arbitro de Cola de Espuma committing a crime, in costume, it won’t do the prosecution any good.

P.S. If you’re not reading Apres Garde, you’re not living.

[Thanks, mcas!]

These photos come from a post we did eight months ago called Scenes from the Final Days of Delano’s. Happily, we were wrong. Delano’s has hung on tight, but things aren’t exactly looking up. A note from a concerned reader:

I was just in there and saw what was pretty obviously a death-powwow, in the meat (and what used to be the decent cheese) section. What I overheard was about the store closing, being laid off, and treating things like business as normal for now.

Things have been looking grim there recently.. it was better for a while, but the stock is getting slimmer all the time and products that run out are increasingly not replaced.

Again, I’m mostly concerned about the people who work there, who have in recent years gone from indifferent to awesome and I think really care about the place. A secondary concern is of course that I might not be able to buy an onion or case of pbr at 11:30pm without walking to safeway.

Sources tell us the company had been looking for a buyer, but that that effort is not panning out.

How much longer can this place plug along?

Previously:

Delano’s IGA on the Ropes?

“They are taking drugs and are extremely dangerous,” says this still from the classic 8-bit video game Lou Reed’s Street Hassle, “Good luck.”

Visit Dimension Arcade (maintained by local gaming historian David Enos) for tons more stills like this one.

Previously:

Lou Reed Defaced!

Big Corporate Lou Reed All Over the Valencia Street Art Wall

The Noise Pop Holiday Shop just might have everything you need! Oh, and look, we’re co-presenting this year. You’re welcome! AND it’s at the Verdi Club, which I bet you STILL haven’t been to. Pencil it in, already.

And like the poster says, contact Molly if you’d like to vend.

At some store near 7th and Market. Here in San Francisco. In 2010. Just so you know.

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