Early riser Zach Perkins just texted in the following report: “Woody Allen fuckin' up my commute.  S Van Ness and 14th.  Block of 14 east of SVN totally closed.”

Screw cars, Woody's filming in the Mission!

Update: Because this is the most exciting thing to happen to the Mission since Dear Mom opened, I grabbed my inhaler and headed over there a little while ago.

The crew was pretty good at letting the villagers get up good and close to take photos, and Allen was even overheard complimenting a few bicycles.  Cate Blanchett and a bunch of other Oscar winners no one cares about were on hand for the scene outside New Central Cafe, in which Cate got out of a taxi with a million suitcases, waited outside an apartment for a person to answer, only to head into the cafe rejected.

Cate's seems to be playing the lead role of a wealthy New York woman who finds herself going broke and moving to San Francisco to stay with her sister, presumably in that very apartment above 14th and South Van Ness.

Crew members on the scene said they'd be filming in the Mission the rest of the day.

Some additional shots:

Here's Woody just staring at the ground during a take.

Finally, this Municyclist was a more interesting sight for one passing cyclist.

Gina writes:

At 4:30 a.m. I was awoken to the sound of a woman screaming bloody murder. I looked out the window of my San Carlos Street apartment and saw tail lights outside of Hog & Rocks. She was screaming for help and demanding that the attacker get out of her car. Within seconds neighbors began running outside, as did I. In under a minute this woman and her car were gone. All we could do was call for the cops and try to piece together what had happened.

This is only guessing- but the half dozen of us that heard and saw small bits from our windows think she was car jacked on 20th and San Carlos, and tried to fight the attacker off. He won after one block.

None of us could identify the car, only that it was a car not a truck or SUV. We couldn't help the police much and they didn't have the best representation with only one officer showing up. We tried to tell him as quickly and clearly as we could what we saw. The officer drove off looking for a car that he couldn't identify that had any sign of trouble. No officers came to follow-up with us after that. We're left to hope that woman is okay.

If anyone has any additional information, you can contact the SFPD Anonymous Tip Line at (415) 575-4444 or the text tip line, TIP411, referencing SFPD in the message.

Update: Gina's initial email was from 5:30 this morning.  Here's her update from 9:30.

I just spoke with the Mission Police and can update you with this: They had a partial description on the car, and partial license plate given by my neighbor. They sent all units looking for the car and turned up nothing. I asked if they'd had any women come forward on being attacked last night that would fit with the San Carlos Street event- they had not. You see, I was hoping the woman got free and contacted the police- but no luck on that yet.

The officer did not take any of our names before rushing off looking for the woman. Nor did the return in the 20 minutes after that we all stood outside theorizing and talking. I think it was the right thing to do in the moment to speed off looking for her once he got the little info we had.

The officer with whom I spoke on the phone just now was helpful and understanding- it did feel like they'd done the best they could. She questioned if I thought perhaps it could have been a domestic dispute, which would explain why no one ever heard anything again. I absolutely - in my bones- know this was not a woman screaming at an attacker she knew. My four house mates and I thought that it was blood curdling. Also, we heard a very loud pop much like a fender bender when it all began- another strange detail.

Maddie the Coonhound, the tumblr celebrity dog famous for precariously standing on things and being rebuffed by Good Morning America, recently turned up to Homestead to stand on fixies and ward off bike thieves.  And, we have to admit, the thought of adopting a mutt to guard our rides never occurred to us before.  Not only do they come in a variety of colors to match your frame, they become more effective the less you feed them.  Plus?  So photogenic.

Look out for our Kickstarter in the coming weeks, the funds of which we'll use to test a variety of things, like 1) are they bolt cutter resistant? and 2) where does the poop go?

[Photo by Helena]

This is Obama's America, folks: instead letting us be free to make our own medical decisions, the socialist takeover of the healthcare industry means we now have to accept tostadas for prescriptions while still paying ridiculous insurance premiums for a side chips.

[Photo by Alan]