Mission Mission

Today’s edition of I Live Here stars none other than Beth Spotswood, one of our most favorite Missionites. See all the pictures and read all the words here.

Reader Jonathan C. sent along this IM convo, and a Twitter search corroborates it: John Waters was hanging at Zeitgeist the other night. Will his next film be a Tamale Lady vehicle? Fingers crossed!

Previously:

Quentin Tarantino Was Hanging at Zeitgeist the Other Night [SFist]

Yay! Today’s Broke-Ass Stuart Broke-Ass of the Week is Brock Keeling of SFist (and, thus, this is the best edition yet). Brock shouts out Bender’s (no surprise), offers up the notion that walking around downtown on the weekends can be fun (surprise), and supplies my new favorite answer to the question “Despite not having any money, do you still love your life?”

Broke-Ass of the Week: Brock Keeling of SFist

Photo by Brittney Gilbert.

Previously:

Broke-Ass Laura

Broke-Ass Allan

Whose Fault Is That yesterday published an extensive interview with Chris Wayan, builder of worlds. WFIT asks him where he discovered world building, to which he responds:

Science fiction and fantasy. The term is common in sf circles, though of course they usually mean building a world entirely of words. On the physical side, I think I was most influenced by Poul Anderson and (more recently) Kim Stanley Robinson in his Mars books; they showed how planetary-scale factors interact to shape quite local matters–even the shapes of bodies. On the sociological/cultural side (and also presentation and style!), Le Guin and Tolkien were my role models. They all kept it just words on a page, though.

This dude goes way beyond words on a page. Note the lyrelaffs in the graphic above. WFIT recommends losing yourself on his website for hours on end some time. Read on. (Full disclosure: I haven’t actually read the whole thing yet, for it is looong and I am fresh out of Adderall.)

Brolores Park killed it this weekend:

“was a little worried about this lil angsted Kurt Cobainbro, until he brought out a 40. Knew that he would be fine, since a 40 is a bro’s best bro.” (link)

(see more at Brolores Park)

Last night, two individuals were spotted enjoying the view on top of Skechers’ tower.  In response to some shouting from street-level, one of the builderers was overheard exclaiming “can I check into Foursquare from up here?”

This week, Broke-Ass Stuart‘s Broke-Ass of the Week is Laura from Vegansaurus. Laura shouts out Rainbow, Papalote, Bender’s, Capp Street and more, and is funny:

Broke-Ass of the Week: Laura Beck of Vegansaurus

Previously:

Broke-Ass Fart Party

Broke-Ass Zeitgeist Haiku

Broke-Ass Jizz Party

Broke-Ass Allan

Just when you are starting to think you have seen it all on Capp…

Last week, The New America Media recently posted an illuminating interview with Lorenzo Armendariz, a 62-year-old street musician from Zacatecas, Mexico, who performs on Valencia St.  He tells his tales of obtaining fake documentation, paying taxes, missing amnesty in the 1980′s, how 9/11 effected tips and immigrant’s optimism surrounding Obama:

I think el negrito [Pres. Barack Obama] is going to help us. He’s going to give us amnesty before 2010 because la raza supported him and, if other black candidates want to run again, and he doesn’t fulfill his promises, well, we won’t vote for them again. In 2010, I will be turning 64, almost 65. And if I get my citizenship, well, the problem is solved.

(hat tip Mission Loc@l)

Burnstein! over at Laughing Squid brings us news of the Tamale Lady’s birthday party at Zeitgeist this Monday at 6pm.  Cecil D. Feeder is going to be screening his “rockumentary” on the Tamale Lady, “Our Lady of Tamale,” at the event.

If you can’t make it Monday, you can watch the film on YouTube.

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