Mission Mission

Think something like this would work on that really persistent nasty hole on 21st?

Longtime local blogger Andrew Dalton has been getting his feet wet with us the last couple weeks, mostly on the crime beat, and it’s been a welcome parade of hard news:

• Stabbing victim attacked by 5 men at 16th and Mission
• Local tagger really stickin’ it to hipsters
• A discount arsonist attempted to burn down Foods Co.
• City Hall will finally revise fascist anti-arcade game legislation
• Large, intentionally messy game of Twister in Dolores Park
• This creep was arrested for impersonating police, kidnapping immigrants for sexual assault
• 28-year-old man shot and killed at 16th and Valencia

Impeccable work so far, Andrew!

And then this week (possibly today) you’ll meet Chris Bunting and Luke Spray from Roll Over Easy, the best morning radio show in town. They share a passion for San Francisco that is refreshing and infectious, and they’re so good at talking all about it (whether at the bar or on the radio or anywhere else). So we asked them to hop aboard, and I can’t wait to see what happens!

By way of further introduction, here are each of our 21 most recently used emoji, as of about 9:45 last night:

Be sure to look for their work here on the blog, and definitely tune into the show, every Thursday morning from 7:30-9:30 on Mission-based BFF!

(I only have a horse in there because I was telling someone about a horse-and-arugula pizza I had in Berlin one time.)

3D City is a year long stereoscopic photography project by Doctor Popular

Did any of you guys get stuck in the rain storm yesterday. Well, not so much a “storm” as a light “drizzle”… Even “drizzle” could be pushing it. I finally got around to developing the rolls from the last good storm we had (back in April?) and wanted to share them with you guys.

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(Despite their name.) And they’re playing this Thursday night at Brick & Mortar Music Hall right here in the Mission.

That is all. I don’t think you really need to listen to them first, or watch YouTube videos, or read about them or anything. Just go see Diarrhea Planet perform live, tomorrow night, right here in the neighborhood.

Okay fine, here’s a pic of them last weekend at Pickathon:

I was there. It was a fucking mindblower.

(I was gonna preface this with something about how Thee Oh Sees used to be the best live band in American before they turned grumpy and less good, but I’m trying to be less grumpy myself.) (Long live Diarrhea Planet!)

UPDATE: They’re also playing Friday night in Oakland.

[Photo by Anthony]

It’s not everyday that you see a guy with a billy goat beard toting a lifelike goat (with a billy goat beard). Also, that’s a lot of strollers.

Next week Pal’s is moving back to their original location at 24th and Hampshire, a location that is totally awesome — but does not include a grill for making burgers. Thus, tomorrow is your last chance (for the foreseeable future) to take part in the weekly “Pal’s Burger Time.”

[via Pal's on Twitter]

Yeahhhhhhhhh!

Watch:

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Award-winning Mission-based fashion blog Fashionist last week ventured up to the famed Divisadero Corridor, and here is what they found:

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Dang, this would’ve made a great pic in my epic series of pics of this spot.

[via @jak]

A cute blast from the past courtesy of reader Ron:

This happened at the knockout back 2009/2010. A couple was going for it in the broom closet during debaser or booty or some crazy overfull party. The whole club was in on the action (they were naked from the waist down…right?) to the point to where they were in just about full view. I had a Canon pocket camera i used to carry everywhere and I managed to catch the action. Never thought about doing anything about the images. I’m going through a purge and I found my old memory cards and I found these gems among the other useless images I shot at that time.