Mission Mission

Just kidding. It’s not about choosing sides. Right?

It’s time to vote. Matt Baume at SF Appeal has laid out the ayes and noes with some colorful graphs in a very helpful way, divided between the props and the candidates.

Look up your polling place and get a sample ballot at SFGov.

The San Francisco League are Young and Pissed Off and after the ballots are in you can join them at El Rio from 8:01pm-12:00am.

Anyway, go out there and do it, it’s fun and I always wear a tie on election days for some reason.

Curbed SF ran a piece on Friday possibly crediting young tech types from Facebook and Google with the gentrification of the Mission, and then an anonymous commenter suggested otherwise:

the vast majority of the folks gentrifying the mission are hipster artist/musician/bartenders who are supported by their baby boomer parents. ever stop by a cafe on valencia around noon? probably not the tech workers hanging out idle in the cafes…

So is it the group up top or the pair below? WHO IS GENTRIFYING THE MISSION?

Top by starglows; bottom by Thumbsterz.

Previously:

Who Is Gentrifying Baghdad?

Ok, I see what they’re trying to do here, and the intention is quite honorable.  Devoting front page space to a celebration of educational achievement is definitely commendable.

However, is it really necessary to force the poor person who hands out these free papers to wear a graduate cap and gown???  I’ll go out on a limb and assume that one of the primary reasons why this person has a crappy job like this is that they did not have the same advantages while growing up as the professionals who dismissively ignore their hand-off at the top of the BART escalator every morning. 

To rub it in by sticking them in a cap and gown when in all likelihood they never even had the opportunity to graduate, forcing them to endure the irony while being scornfully rebuffed by every young professional who ascends the stairs?

SF Examiner, you’re better than that.

Previously:

Mission Day Laborers Rock

As part of their neighborhoods issue, Good Magazine hired Volume Inc. to design some neighborhood flags. Here’s what they came up with for the Mission:

Bikes and tacos! Clearly these guys are thinking OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!

Personally, I think they should have consulted us for a flag design consisting of scenes from the Mission Mission top posts of all time. Who wouldn’t want a flag of a lady shitting on her house while a scantly clad woman struts down the street drinking moderately-priced Kombucha and a BART train speeds by in the background (passenger with a visible boner in window)?

Oh, and this flag would never fly from a pole, it would always be presented draped over a life-size marble rendering of Sasha Grey.

See the rest of the series (mostly not-SF) neighborhood flags here.

Thanks Elizabeth S.!

The Onion has the scoop:

Describing himself as “terribly exhausted,” famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said Monday that he was taking a break from combating the hegemony of the American imperialist machine to try and take it easy for once.

Read on.

Photo by Sangroncito.

The Tens yesterday afternoon caught the honorable Supervisor Campos “trying out for Fuck Arizona Idol.” Think he’ll make it to Hollywood?

Previously:

Supervisor Campos & Racial Profiling

Gold in peace, iron in war? No longer! “San Francisco. Not smug. Just better.”

SFist has the scoop.

What will Sarah do about hoodie-related violence?

Photo by Nick Adam.

Previously:

Mission Vegans Need Some Sarah Palin

SNL’s Racist Parody of Matt Gonzalez

Tag Savage of Sleepover SF produced this epic new logo for us. You might’ve seen it on our Facebook page, and you’ll be seeing it right here on our site some time soon when we unveil an equally epic redesign.

So, how about this: You get a tattoo of this beaut’, we’ll give you free Mission Mission for life.

[This is not entirely a joke. What with all this paywall talk, not to mention the reinvigorated world of print, we may soon be charging everyone $19.99 a month to read this thing. But not you, you with your fresh ink, not you.]