Mission District
Nuzz, one of my favorite photographers in the Mission, snapped the above photo and had this to say:
While wandering around shooting, I met this cute girl in the mission that drives a classic right hand drive Mini Cooper. I love San Francisco.
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Tartine Bread from 4SP Films on Vimeo.
Tartine is putting out another cookbook, this time featuring their bread, and their publisher had this documentary put together. While the video doesn't feature fisheye shots of skateboards and bikes, it's still enjoyable and makes me wish I've tried more than one of their sandwiches.
Shotwell's, my favorite place to drink Flemish ale and host fundraisers for The Bay Citizen, recently posted up a brief history of the bar. I almost wish they named it "back room grog shop" or "Old Man Cribbin's" when the bar reopened in 2006, although those sort of a names don't really encourage you to spend seven bucks on a Monk's Cafe.
CBS 5 reports that the SFPD has renewed the permit necessary for High Bridge Arms to continue to function as the City's only gun store/Zombie resistance HQ. Despite the efforts of the staunch Pro-Zombie wing, San Francisco shall remain armed with a revolver-touting retail outlet on Mission St.
WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN COLMA, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH AND WANT MISSION STYLE BURRITOS CON CABEZA DEL HUMANO.
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Curbed SF hips us to a new interactive map from the planning commission, detailing a brief history of classic south Mission properties. Pretty neat stuff: for example, I just learned that my apartment is in a proposed historical district, which means I probably clean up all the puke on my walls. Also, I know a number of people who live in these districts (marketed by red lines) and it suffices to say that their buildings are epic pieces of crap. Maybe I'm missing the point.
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IT COULD HAPPEN HERE!Today, the City will hold a hearing where pro-zombie hoards will undoubtedly attempt to strip High Bridge Arms, a Mission St gun shop, of their permit. As someone with a morbid fear of the zombie apocalypse, I stand firmly against the closing of High Bridge Arms, the City's one and only legal purveyor of firearms.
When the armies of the dead start their long march from Colma to San Francisco, we need High Bridge's cache of firearms on hand for looting. Without them, we'd be left with only novelty swords and ninja stars looted from Chinatown tourist traps. This is just poor city planning. Hopefully 'Gun Tottin Gavin' will step in and initiate a new Zombie Preparedness Initiative with TWELVE GAUGES FOR ALL YALLS.
PROTIP: Don't loot a gun store unless you're sure the owners have either fled or been zombie-fied. Looting gun shops with living owners will result in your ass getting shot off and handed to you, and then re-animating moments later as an ass-less zombie. You n00b.
CHINATOWN IS DOOMED!!!
This is one fine video: two Bay Citizen reporters set out to discover if drinking cocktails with egg whites will kill you. After an ex-egg-farm worker goes on about how disgusting egg farms are, they hesitantly dive in anyway all while fearing for their life. Bonus points for sharing your drink with strangers at the bar, as that is clearly a much healthier practice than drinking raw egg. (link)
If you like skateboarding, the Top Gun soundtrack, and some random 5 second video of a cute dog taken with a wide-angle lens, well, holy shit, this post was made for you.
We made it out to Toad & Salmon's 6th Annual Chili Bowl at Potrero del Sol and it was, per usual, a solid time. While it didn't feature the blood geysers and beer balloons of years past, it was packed with quality skateboarding, tallcans, chili, excitement on Heckle Hill, and cursing from the announcers. Unfortunately, we won't be able to put together a good video of the action until early next week (be sure to come back and visit), but in the meantime, you can wet your appetite with this lazy video of the footage I took on the crappy camera or check out the photos I posted to flickr:
Also, here's a rad snap of Evelyn Abad fucking up the women's division:
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If just last week you had told me I'd be seeing some skateboard industry dirtbag rocking a PETA hoodie at a competition at Potrero del Sol, I would have laughed at you and bet you I'd start eating meat again if the sight was seen. Well, what the fuck, four dancing bunnies spotted within feet of Potrero's bowl. Does this mean it's cool to wear your veganism on for back or is PETA the apex of hooded irony?
For those of you who care, sorry I haven't posted here in a dog's age. I got kind of caught up with the whole moving-to-Oakland-and-starting-at-a-new-school thing, and I've also kind of been on a monthlong Four Loko bender. It's truly the devil's juice. Anyway though, this (sure to be awesome) skate video is showing at the Victoria Theatre on 16th & Capp on Sunday night at 7:30.
I think everyone should go. Even if you don't care about skateboarding, you should go anyway because some of the guys in it are cute.
And if you're still unconvinced because you don't care about skateboarding OR cute boys, then ... um, what's wrong with you? One man, five syllables: Kevin "Spanky" Long. Swooooon.
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