Mission Mission

The Untitled Michael Lannan Comedy, as it’s currently known, centers around “three thirty-something friends living in San Francisco who grapple with all the options in contemporary life and the complexities of the modern gay experience”, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show’s adapted from a comedic feature script by Lannan called Lorimer. It will star Jonothan Groff, from Glee, who also is apparently dating Zachary Quinto. So . . . there’s your Hollywood gossip.

[stock photo by me, just in case it helped to see an image of the Mission]

Anyway, it sounds like they’ll be shooting sometime soon around the neighborhood, possibly at bars like El Rio and Esta Noche. So far HBO has only greenlit the pilot, but just in case it gets picked up I’m thinking about taglines for them.

Going off of the little info I have:

Sex and the City by the Bay

A Story of the Modern Millennial Milieu

Out and About some Boys

Gay Bay Today, Bab-ay

Anyone else?

UPDATE: Casting info includes a “Dancing Bear” stripper and a good looking gay couple with a mixed-race child to hang out in “the park”, which could be Dolores, but I guess people still hang out in other parks . . . ?

Man, seems like we posted this exact news like a jillion years ago. When will this actually happen???

(Thanks, Devin!)

[via Just Crazy Enough To Work]

So, either some garbage elves cleaned up part of the park and neglected the other part, OR some people are fucking assholes and some people are not.

(Thanks, @Braccs.)

This was three hours ago, and it looks like a fire crew was on the scene and took care of business?

UPDATE: Dumpster fire, one injury.

[Photo by Miss Tilly] [Thanks, Val!]

Reader Alex C. reports that this is why helicopters are currently circling overhead.

Another step in the long hike toward a completely upgraded Dolores. (Wherein the 20th and Church overlook becomes all fancy instead of all janky.) Dolores Park Works highlights some changes:

• The North Restroom is now closer to the playground.
• The steps to down to the abandoned 19th Street J Church stop are  now persevered.
• The South Restroom will not have a living roof.
• The 18th Street entrance to the maintenance yard is now closer to Church Street to preserve the flow of the 18th Street lawn.

Have a look:

Read on for more graphics and reporting.

[via mononatalie]

[via LLL]