Mission Mission

Mission Local this morning takes a look inside Halberstadt Fencers’ Club, the typographically compelling storefront on South Van Ness. Watch now!

Previously:

Don’t Fence Me In

Since Ping Pong Gallery hung up their paddles and changed their name to something more mature, I can’t think of any good places in town to play ping pong. What gives?

Curbed last week mentioned a movement to install some tables in local parks. That’d be nice.

That McSweeney’s event (pictured) was fun, but a one-off.

There’s that janky table in the yard at Finnegan’s, but that’s a haul.

Somebody with a table in their art space or office or something want to start hosting a regular ping pong happy hour or something? Please?

Either this is an actual PSA because “surfing the train” is an actual problem in the New York City subway, or this is the raddest prank of the year.

Has anybody ever tried to surf a BART?

[via PaperTowel]

Previously:

Tarp Surfing

BART Swing

I was walking my very drunk friend home last night when we came upon this champion, wearing a big floppy yellow tarp, coughing and moaning his way up 24th Street, loudly, pausing only to walk into the occasional wall or tree.

I said to my very drunk friend, “You, sir, are an amateur.”

Looks like it might be kind of a bumpy ride, but I’m sure as long as you slick it up with some baby oil or something it’s perfectly safe.

Jumbo Tex.

[Photo and slide idea by Nattles]

“Chicken” because it’s played in traffic. Moments earlier this power forward, trying to recover a loose ball, had charged a speeding minivan. The minivan gunned it, kicked the ball to the curb.

That’s right, bicycle and skateboard parking only.

Hmm.

Hmm.

WHAT IS SKATEBOARD PARKING?

[via Madey Gaga]

Previously:

Hella Parking

Construction at Mission Cliffs got ya down? Head over to Valencia:

All jokes aside, are you seriously going to tell me my Motorola RAZR v3 didn’t just take the loveliest picture you’ve seen all day?

When a group of buddies blessed with only pedestrian athleticism decides to spend an afternoon playing basketball together, it’s really a prudent idea to bring along more than one ball.  You know, in case this sort of thing happens.  Thanks for nothing, Ernesto!

[Photo via Zarin]

Can anyone join? Unclear. But CycleZine has more info, sort of:

I see influence of East Coast Ivy League and West Coast Hipsters..Yachting…. Love it….

Read on.

[via SCD]