Mission Mission

Yep. I was walking down 19th Street earlier, crossed Capp, passed a couple of working girls. Here’s what one shouted to the other as they were parting ways:

SARA!! REMIND ME TO GET A SF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER!!

I hope Sara remembered. (I’m guessing on the spelling there, but the no-H thing just seems right. No judgement.) I wonder if they’re real into Matt Smith, or Dan Savage, or maybe the concert listings?

The point of this post is, I had no idea anyone read SF Weekly.

Clearly that is why the Obama administration is not totally killing it.

Have at it, somebody:

Relevant details can be found here, so you can credit whomever you need to credit. NOTE: Making a t-shirt out of this WILL put an end to the Republican Party once and for all, clearly.

In related news, Obama appeared in SF last night.

More congrats to Johnny0 (aka Burrito Justice), who single-handedly named a neighborhood using only his imagination and a series of tubes. This takes some serious chops. I should know, as I was totally unsuccessful in my attempts to coin “Civic Valley“.

In the latest installment of this saga, the SF Examiner took an interest in this story and wrote it up. They declare:

So welcome to La Lengua, the Mission district-Bernal Heights microhood that needed a name. Yes, that’s right, it’s Spanish for “the Tongue,” a reference to the district’s shape, its preponderance of eateries serving tongue meat and the active imagination of the dude behind the Burrito Justice blog.

Perhaps most chilling, to me at least, was the closing line:

“I wouldn’t say it’s a hipster thing,” Johnny0 said. “I think it’s what happens when hipsters grow up and have kids … they come and live in La Lengua.”

The first time I met Johnny0, I invited him to brunch the next day. He said he was busy doing dad stuff. Then he said sorta waved his fingers in front of me and said in a spooky voice, “I am your fuuuuuture!”

This has haunted me ever since.

[via the Examiner]

Maybe you saw this scene on Sunday and wondered what was up? Turns out it was election day in Peru, and voting is mandatory for all Peruvians even if you’re overseas. How nice.

Unfortunately, the three moderate candidates split the moderate votes, leaving two weirdos to compete for the presidency in a June runoff. The LA Times reports that Peru is basically fucked:

Both appear wanting in experience, and concerns about their commitment to democracy prompted Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa to say the decision will be like “choosing between AIDS and terminal cancer.”

Read on. (Thanks, Kristina!)

[Photo by reader Mennlay A. via our Facebook wall]

Reader Katie spotted this notice on the side of the Victoria Theater yesterday:

Looks like someone took issue with the historic Alber’s Flapjack Flour mural on the side of the theater on 16th and Capp! Soon when you want to “look for the miner” you’ll have to “look” elsewhere.

I can only guess that some local tightwads just can’t stand the fact that fattening breakfast foods, such as flapjacks (which are basically super-thick and delicious pancakes) are being marketed to children, particularly those that go to the nearby Marshall Elementary School.

Sure, it may not be a part of a balanced breakfast, but have you seen a picture of a balanced breakfast? There’s like two cups of juice, milk, toast, and like ten other things in addition to your cereal. Nobody I know ate balanced breakfasts and we turned out fine.

What’s next? A war on bacon? Home fries? Scrambled eggs that contain yolks? All I know is that I will fight to the death for my right to eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch in a peanut butter sandwich.

Never mind that Albers hasn’t made flapjack flour for decades. They are focused more on corn-based products now. Lame.

[Thanks the reader Katie for the tip!]

Update: You are right to be outraged, but this is an April Fool’s Joke. Sadly for all of us, it was way too believable. Folks from SFist even compared the violation form to the source image on Bernalwood (sans official letterhead and staff contact) and still had to ask me! We’re that good. Sorry. Next year we’ll do something obvious like “Chevy’s opening in the Mission” or whatever.

C’mon guys, Burger King’s stance on this issue has been completely transparent for decades:

But seriously, Brady Lea‘s video here is quite a watch:

[via Bernalwood]

[pic from @PhilBronstein]

In The Mission right now. Bullying citizens into safety.

Ryan is a barrel of laughs. Poignant laughs!

You might want to check out his band too, and his awesome Kickstarter pitch.

(Thanks, Pen Pop!)

This just in:

today from 2-5pm supervisor david campos will be using nervous dog coffee, as his community office. mission/bernal folks are apparently welcome to ask questions and open up a dialog with campos today.

(Thanks, Thea!)

[Photo by Supervisor Campos]

It’s true:

You’re welcome, Gina. Sorry, Gavin Newsom.

And by all means, like I said at the beginning, read Corntard.