Mission Mission

Tamar Korn from NY is singing with Gaucho tonight at Amnesia, 8-10pm. She rules. It’s like someone with a time machine (perhaps this guy) plucked her right out of the 1930s. Here’s a clip:

Get there early to avoid the shit-show it usually becomes by around 9pm.

Extra points for sporting Silver Age Garfield (1980s era), as opposed to his current incarnation, which I’m pretty sure is spit out by a computer or a highly trained intern.

BTW, have you seen Lasagna Cat? It’s amazing:

Hey drunk dude, we get it, you’re not a fan of Ben E. King. That’s no reason to crush yourself with a piano. There’s plenty left to live for.

Ken explains:

I recently acquired some fun new toys, the first of which is a motorized telescope mount that’s popular among time-lapse enthusiasts.  Time-lapse movies are usually fairly static, but this makes it possible to introduce movement such as panning shots.

Read on for pictures of the toys in question as well as a panoramic time-lapse video of Billy Goat Hill.

UPDATE: Says Vic, “Be sure to set this to full-screen 720p and you can almost smell the casual disregard for CA state public marijuana consumption laws.”

Somebody finally installed a bowling alley in the Mission, but they did it in a car.

If you were in Union Square on May 21st and saw some bodies floating towards the heavens, it’s probably because local science rock band the Phenomenauts staged their own rapture there. Curious about what it takes to bring about the end times? Apparently it’s no easy task: nobody sells hydrogen on judgement day, it takes a lot of balloons can lift a blow-up doll, and you need a full-size bus.

Watch their hilarious making-of video for the scoop:

Science and honor!

[Thanks, Pearl!]

My brother posted this amazing postcard on Wonglr and added:

There’s nothing I don’t like about this old San Francisco postcard. The bountiful dungeness crab harvest. The red berets & ’70s ‘staches. Is that Charles Bronson in the back there?

I’m not sure, but Mr. Bronson just might be in town to clean up these streets:

This is a good time to point out how awesome the Mexican flag is, according to local funnyman Sean Keane in this video:

Happy Cinco de Mayo, all.