Mission Mission

Can’t stop looking at this Gravel & Gold post. It’s called Please Hurl Yourself At Me and is hypnotic.

Yesterday we happily reported that Bender’s has installed a photo booth. Sadly, this improvement came with a price, as Monty (the bearer of the original good news) informs us here:

My foursquare -> Twitter -> Mission Mission didn’t communicate this, but the photobooth has resulted in the death of the *awesome* game Bags. Don’t get me wrong, Bender’s is my favorite spot in all of San Francisco, but bags > photobooth. Ya’ll fucked this one up. Nevermind the fact photobooths are already becoming a dive-bar cliche in the mission.

Read on.

On Saturday, this hula-hooping wunderkind had the crowd going crazy. It started out with a little, “Hey, check out that little girl hula hooping, she’s so tiny, ha-ha,” and quickly escalated to full-on rounds of applause and wild hooting and hollering from a sizeable section of the southern end of the park.

When she realized she was on stage, she really started putting on a show. By this I mean she started beating the shit out of her little boy companion for some reason, smiling all the while. But he took the beating like a man and afterward was not above helping her out with her two-hula-hoops-at-once trick, and just generally playing her comic foil.

Burrito Justice has another animated GIF (of the two of them hula hooping in tandem) right here.

The Mission is getting a new skatepark, under the freeway, right next to Zeitgeist, and tonight you can help design it. Click flyer to enlarge it.

[via West Gate of Babylon]

West Gate of Babylon just put up a sunny little video of Sean Gutierrez and other local skaters tearing it up at our neighborhood skate park. Link.

Previously:

Focus

This photo comes from Carlos Reyes and was captioned “focused my shit.” Link.

I hope to one day focus my shit too.

Way way back in the day, the Mission had some minor league baseball teams. The first was called the SF Missions (who quickly moved to Salt Lake City and became the SLC Bees), and the next was called the Mission Reds (who toiled here for 12 years before ending up down south as the Hollywood Stars). Neither was as beloved as the Seals, of course. Nonetheless, Wikipedia’s complete history is fascinating.

And since the holidays are coming up, it might be wise to stock up on some handsome throwback gear (pictured). Thanks to Plug1 for bringing all of this to our attention.

Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is don’t print a bunch of beautiful posters announcing Fight Club’s date and location and illegality because then bloggers will post the image and some citizen will call the fuzz and Fight Club will have to clandestinely relocate to another hill. Anyway, Fight Club was pretty fun despite all that. This guy was the star of the show. While most rode the brake quite a bit, this fearless hero never touched it, repeatedly flying down the raceway at top speed, “sharpest turns in the city” and all. For his second and third runs, he donned a helmet, thank goodness.

Photo by Lelstar Togistics (full set here).

Reader Janet C. forwards us this shite piece of news:

Per a posting on a list I’m a member of:

This weekend on the Bernal Hill was to be the Soap Box Derby. I have
just been informed that the event is illegal and SFPD with RPD Park
Patrol will force the cancellation of the event.Please be advised and
spread the word.

Thanks,
Sabrina
Safety Network Organizer
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
(415)206-2140 ext 155

Sucks.

Not sure where Janet starts and Sabrina ends, but, shit. Can anybody confirm? Is there a plan to resist? Should I bring my Kevlar? Link.

Update: Todd assures us: “Totally NOT CANCELLED.”

Telstar Logistics has the skinny on this year’s edition of the San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Derby. It’s up on Bernal Hill, dangerous as can be, and minus all the corporate pomp of that other thing. Plus there’s a kickoff party tonight at Bender’s. Full details, as well as photos and video from past editions, here.