Mission Mission

San Francisco band Girls was on the front page of Pitchfork again this morning (sorry dudes, I read Pitchfork), which led me to spend the last hour at work watching Girls music videos.  Oops!

Unsurprisingly, most of them feature SF scenery.  Here’s one I came across today that I hadn’t seen before – starring Dolores Park:

Not my favorite song (“Lust for Life” is!), but still not bad.

These dudes are getting crazy famous, so see them at the Swedish American Hall on November 20th or Bottom of the Hill on November 21st before they start playing bigger venues.  Awesome.

Enjoying the View is a collection of iPhone photos taken from the same spot at the top of Dolores Park.  It’s like an iPhone timelapse, only it’s nothing like a timelapse.

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Cindy sends us this tip:

Once or twice I referred to it as DP while gchatting and was later informed, by my boyfriend that DP stood for double penetration. So now I always write it out, to avoid confusion.

Now I know why my friend replied “fuck no” to my “dp?” text the other day.  This is awkward city and I’m running for mayor.

Zomg!  The things you learn trendspotting on Twitter (no big deal)!

I assume I’m behind on this one, don’t judge:

Call me crazy stupid or whatevs, but I never realized Dolores Park was dorth of the Panhandle.  Hmm.

He looks well-mannered.

(Photo cred. Daniel Korenblum)

Happening RIGHT NOW in Dolores Park.

(Thanks Natalie!)

Remember that community meeting about Dolores Park last week?  Well, a good outcome of the meeting is that there is a solid group of volunteers forming with the specific goal of helping keep the park clean.  They’ll be meeting a number of times every month to help make the park beautiful.  Unfortunately they are not maintaining an email list, so who knows how their long-term organizing efforts will end up being, but you can show up tomorrow to get involved.

Our first meeting, a WORKING MEETING, will be this Sunday, Sept. 20 from 2-4 pm at the Liberty Bell at 19th and Dolores. If possible, wear green or white T-shirts to stand out, as we want people to notice what we’re up to, and to make a visible difference. We chose this time precisely because we want to be working in the park when there are a lot of people around. Bring gloves, litter grabbers, etc. if you have them, but we’ll have plenty of supplies provided by Rec&Park and Dolores Park Church, so don’t worry if you don’t have anything to bring. We’ll spread out and do litter pick up, graffiti abatement, raking around trash receptacles, and anything else that helps beautify the park. Before we go to work, we’ll briefly discuss the latest Rec&Park improvements in the park, set a date for our next meeting, and discuss where we go from here.

Jackson West over at the SF Appeal, who just moved to to the neighborhood and therefore isn’t qualified to have an opinion, gives his two cents about Dolores Park and the community meeting the other night:

…A few dozen others arrived, most from the blocks directly around the park but a few from further afield in the Mission and beyond. And everyone did admit there was a problem, at least with trash. Other problems cited included the bathrooms, hipsters, Mexicans, irrigation, wind, people who don’t own property next to the park, Critical Mass, politicians and, despite all these apparent defects, too many people.

And that, friends, is the essential irony. For a park that is “dying,” it is quite popular! Internationally so. Leaving the younger crowd counter-intuitively arguing to maintain the status quo, and even the older crowd admitting that it’s a better place than it was at some arbitrary point in the past when it was ruled by gangs and drug users, as opposed to now.

But there was a clear generation gap, with the introduction period amounting to one-upsmanship as to who lived closer and longer. The implication being that somehow factoring proximity and longevity mathematically lent one’s point of view more weight. Which it does not. Especially when it is matched with complaints about people and their sense of entitlement.

Read on…

I quickly swung by Dolores Park last night and noticed “the soccer field” was sectioned off with yellow tape.  Are they finally fixing the irrigation?  Maybe it was a crime scene?

Tonight at 7pm, neighborhood residents all lovers of Dolores Park will gather at the Dolores Park Church (455 Dolores) to “form goals and strategize.”  Some neighborhood policy setters will be there, so if you care about the city making community events more rare, your right to picnic, grilling pork, trash, noise, dogs off-leash, dogs on-leash, pedophile hipsters smoking cigarettes near the swings, or whatever your issue is, show up.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• Pork Injunction in Dolores Park
• Update: More Details Surface Surrounding the Dolores Park ‘Improvements’
• Leaked Memo Reveals Effort to ‘Improve’ Dolores Park
• Police Kill Fun in Dolores Park
• Tecate Injunction
• City-Sanctioned Muggers Harass and Rob Dolores Park-Goers