Mission Mission

So says M.I.A. in her Happy Election Day blog post, in which she also debuts this new video for S.U.S., her take on The Wire theme song (in collaboration with Baltimore’s own Blaqstarr). Be sure to stay tuned until the final seconds.

Previously:

SHEEEEEEEIT on Mike Monteiro’s blog.

Re-Elect Clay Davis T-Shirt (Also, The Wire vs. San Francisco) here on Mission Mission.

I hope this criticism doesn’t tip the scales or anything, but when this thing is over, will we get our fuckin’ sweet pig mural back? I hope so.

Photo by Shannon Clark.

Says this description of the participants in today’s Yes on 8 truck parade. Don’t forget to vote.

Over at Oopsie Daisy, Daisy reminds us not to take anything for granted. Link.

Photo by Plug1.

For Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live gets Tina Fey out of retirement. No such love for Matt Gonzalez: When Weekend Update’s anchor asks the guy playing Ralph Nader about his running mate, Nader pulls out a Spanish-speaking sock puppet named Manuel. Link.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Graying Matt Gonzalez Photographed a Lot at Soap Gallery Opening

Matt For Mayor T-Shirt Drew No Ire

WHAT IM SEEING dot com just put up an analysis of the Quake Quiz SF website, and its chilling graphics in particular. The one above really hits home, am I right? At least it’s still in tact. Link.

Also:

• “Katrina-Style Disaster” Predicted at SFist.
• Bizarro La Taqueria here on Mission Mission.

The other day I wrote a post questioning why very few young people attended the District 9 supervisor debate on Tuesday. A reader by the name of Concerned published a retort:

Has it occurred to you that the odds of any young person’s vote affecting the outcome of an election are on par with the odds that the large hadron collider will suck the earth into a black hole? (”So you’re saying it could happen!”) Electoral politics are a wasteland, voting is like pressing a button on a remote control with no batteries. I can understand why some old person might devote their time to that type of symbolic gesture, but compared to other youth passtimes (having sex with other youths, sangria), it is a poor investment.

That had occurred to me, and even if it’s true, and voting is just a symbolic gesture, why shouldn’t everyone be allowed to partake? Symbolic gestures can be fun!

A kind reader sent this cute video in, noting that Dolores Park plays a significant role. And boy, if more election-season ads featured our gorgeous park and a lot of funny swearing, maybe I’d still watch regular TV.

The debate was okay. We saw cheering and hissing and accusations of racism, and some folks seemed to get a feel for who they like. But we were most struck by the absence of young people in the audience. So many young people in the neighborhood doing interesting things, loving life, helping to make the Mission what it is, and none show up at this banner event? Then we started thinking about our circle of friends, many of which are recent transplants from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania or elsewhere, and thus not yet registered to vote in SF (maybe because their vote for Obama carries more weight back home than it would here). So is that the story? Nobody shows up because you’re all registered in Indiana?

For more, SF Citizen has a gang of photos, some video and a sharp critique of the Chronicle coverage, right over here. Oh and Beth Spotswood has a sharp critique of somebody else’s coverage, located here.

Update: For a truly definitive report, see Brock’s at SFist, here.