Mission Mission

But did y’all keep Smithsfits going with a little a cappella? “I ain’t no god damn son of a bi-i-i-itch!!” sang the entire bar, in unison.

Little photos by reader Nina N.; big photos by reader Daniel S.:

[Photo by Don Loeb]

[Photo by Joe]

SF Appeal has details here.

UPDATE: Our buddy Raun was on the scene:

[via C'mon Pony]

Apparently we were all almost killed by a falling theater marquee. Mission Local reports:

Police closed off a block of Mission Street, between 20th and 21st street, as a safety precaution because a metal sheet from the Tower Theater sign was flapping from the wind.

“It was flapping like a flag,” said ice cream vendor, Magdaleno Gutierrez. “It would have killed someone.”

Firefighters arrived sometime after 1:30 p.m. and placed ropes to hold together the roughly 30 foot-long metal sign, according to a Department of Traffic and Parking employee on the scene.

I don’t see what the big deal was. I was in the park all afternoon and it was perfectly pleasant. Read on.

The Fog Bender reports:

right when i got off work yesterday i saw smoke rising from the freeway and heard sirens coming from all around so i raced to this pedestrian overpass right next to where the smoke was coming from.  i got there right in time to catch a picture of this white VW bug just moments before firemen extinguished the flames.

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SF Appeal reports:

A female driver and her one-year-old passenger were hospitalized this morning after she crashed into a fire hydrant in San Francisco’s Mission District, police said.

The woman struck her 1995 Toyota Camry into a hydrant at the intersection of 23rd and Mission Streets at about 4:15 a.m., San Francisco police said.

The one year old suffered life-threatening injuries, and was taken to a local hospital. The driver was also taken to the hospital, with injuries that were not life threatening, police said.

Read on.

[via Grand Coffee and Ariel Dovas]

Dolores Parks Works is gearing up to host yet another Dolores Park meetup, and today they’ve put up an open call for speakers:

Do have an Dolores Park perspective or message that deserves amplification? This is your opportunity.

I’m pretty sure this event won’t involve puke of any kind. So, consider that. If you think you’ve got some bright ideas or whatever, click here to throw your hat into the ring.

At the liquor store at 22nd and Folsom anyway. Sorry if that headline was misleading.

“Excellent reuse,” says reader Joshua A., snapper of this pic. Maybe it’s reuse, or maybe Anheuser-Busch is grasping at straws trying anything and everything to get savvy San Francisco taste makers like all of us here in the Mission to sample their wares.

Amidst this week’s media blitz surrounding our neighbor to the south, La Lengua, our buddy Cranky Old Mission Guy (who just launched a new website this week btw) came up with the best rechristening idea I’ve heard since I first heard “La Lengua” oh so many eons ago:

My new name for the area of the Mission around the 16th Street BART plaza is “Royal Gate”, after the plastic vodka bottles strewn everywhere.

Totally! Sixteenth and Mission is totally a royal gateway — in the exact same way that this crummy vodka is “royal.” Perfect!

(Thanks to our other buddy SCUM for finding the above photo.)

[Photo via Kute 'n' Krispy]