Mission Mission

It’s almost over!

Check your ballot status here (if you’re in SF) or here (if you’re elsewhere in CA).

[via Chef Danny Bowien on Instagram]

Our old pal Jeff Seal (who is really good at Vine btw) lives in Brooklyn and tonight posted this reaction to a piece of news about some serious hipster bullshit:

Piss on, Jeff! (Also, piss on Jeff!)

Our old pal Marc Caswell, formerly of the SF Bike Coalition, I think relocated to LA a while back and just now shared an LAist (like SFist but in LA) post about a beloved cafe on Sunset Boulevard that after 20 years in business is shutting down because of landlords and Corporate America and everything.

Here’s an excerpt of the Casbah Cafe’s response to LAist’s reporter’s inquiry:

A bitter ending is always better than an endless bitterness. Casbah is a good example of a turning point in a neighborhood where reality switches from everyday common sense to the corporate world reason.

We stayed longer than reason permitted. We tried our best for the friends of Casbah, but what is impossible is impossible…so we were forced to go with no notice for ourselves either. We had to pack up 20 years of a business over night. Silver Lake as it was when we started the neighborhood is gone for good and we could not be the sole supporter for keeping Silver Lake as it started any longer. Casbah never meant to be in such an aggressive and abusive environment with closely surrounding corporate businesses just down the street wanting to be celebrities, just simply a beautiful and real place to be with interesting people.

And then there’s this:

Where was the media when a small business like Casbah was in need of their support when corporate America was jumping up at every Sunset building? Is it because Casbah didn’t pay for their ads? And after almost a decade of no writeups, it shuts down and now it’s the time to take the article glory on a home run.

So, I write a lot of posts that are like “_______ is closing,” and often it’s a place I’ve never patronized or maybe I patronized it once, and I guess probably pretty often it’s a place I’ve never written about. But I write about lots and lots of businesses that don’t pay for ads here (pretty much only Pop’s and American Tripps and pay for ads) — but I’m kinda lazy these days, so I’m sure I’m missing out on a lot of good stuff.

The point is, hit me up. (And if anybody else wants to pay for ads, hit me up too. We can get creative about it.)

Read on for more of the letter, which includes a quotation of some heavy French poetry.

[Photo by Karma, via It's Always Sunny in San Francisco]

Now please enjoy this old post involving the old California Academy of Sciences and a boomerang.

Now let’s rock:

[via Primo]

As we’ve said before, it’s the best morning radio show in town, and today they’ve got Mission Mission alum Nick Pal talking local politics in advance of the big day:

This week's show is going to be downright PROP-posterous! That's right, we're talking election choices with the one and only @np!

— Roll Over Easy (@RollOverEasy) October 29, 2015

Tune in on BFF.fm, 7:30-9:30am. Or check it out later on via the Roll Over Easy archive.

It’s a podcast about documentaries, but this particular episode is very SF-pertinent. Here’s the deal:

Sup Doc Podcast presents its debut LIVE show recrorded at Lost Weekend Video. Bay Area comediansPaco Romane and George Chen invite a SF Mayoral candidate, a comedian and a Mission business owner/musician to discuss Alexandra Pelosi’s HBO documentary “San Francisco 2.0” about the changing nature of San Francisco and gentrification.

GUESTS:
Kaseem Bentley: Comedian and SF native
 https://twitter.com/kaseembentley

Amy Farah Weiss: YIMBY SF Mayoral candidate
http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com/

Adam Pfahler: Business Owner
Jawbreaker drummer / co-owner of Lost Weekend Video

SAN FRANCISCO 2.0
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/san-francisco-2-0/synopsis.html

Listen:

Mainly I just wanted the word “Sidebern” to be here on this blog forevermore. Plus, Ralph Carney rules too. Here are all the details:

Join us in the Chapel Bar to watch the 2015 Democratic Debate!

Hillary versus Bernie versus a potential Biden! Plus former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, former U.S. Senator Jim Webb and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee plan to join the conversation, all moderated by the great Anderson Cooper.

Drink specials include THE PANTSUIT and THE SIDEBERN, plus good times all around!

The bar will open at 5pm, debate begins at 6pm, followed by The Tedtones feat. Ralph Carney playing live until 11pm!

[Photo by Unframed Thoughts]