The comments are quite entertaining — a bro standing on a boat a catamaran called us ghetto. THAT IS SO AWESOME

In serious news, pop over to the Red Cross and donate to help out those hit by the 6-alarm Western Addition fire (and to those affected by disaster nationwide).

Our competition in the first round is the evilly compressed NoPa, aka Pandhandle. Do take the time to vote for our beloved wedge-shaped neighborhood.

UPDATE: Your efforts were successful! We narrowly defeated the NoPanditos, 51.4% to 48.6%! Russian Hill is next. If we get past them, and if Potrero succumbs to Bernal in the War of the Hill People, a battle royale will ensue in the lowlands.

As a refresher, please review these basic La Lenguan materials:

Curbed’s People’s Guide to La Lengua:

CBS 5 coverage of La Lengua:

(No, that’s not me in the hat.)

La Lengua as seen from Google Maps if not from space:

Just say No to NoPa! VIVA LA LENGUA LIBRE ¡VOTAR! ¡VOTAR! ¡VOTAR!

Incredible 1 of a kind property-designer flat over converted store front-used as architet’s office & artist’s studio. Not just beautiful, flexible & designed with an architect’s flair – but cool as can be, in SF’s newest micro hood-La Lengua! Where Bernal Heights meets the Valencia Corridor & hot Mission district! Gorgeous custom painted Victorian facade deceives the scale, dexterity, & amenities this incredibly flexible 3,100 sq. ft. property has to offer! 115 ft lot affords idyllic back yard & patio to enjoy balmy Mission weather.

The LaLeReReEsCoCo (La Lengua Revolutionary Real Estate Correction Council), in recognition that lower Precita is at best part of the Liminal Zone if not entirely in La Lengua Bernal proper, offers these lovely aerial shots of Bernal and Precita as a tribute payment.

Though this raises interesting questions – are Precita’s needs being addressed by the cherty Bernal overlords? *Could* Precita break away from Bernal proper? And most importantly, is the Precita playground, with its classic 70s-era metal play equipment a cultural landmark worthy of independence?

All together now!

ラレングア！
ララララレングア！

Unsurprisingly, La Lengua was not translated into any of the Chinese or Arabic Google Maps. No Taco Spring. The revolution will not yet be Sinologized. (This is obviously due to the lack of Mexican food in China, and the clear and present threat posed to wraps and shwarma by burrito supremacy and weaponized tacos.)

The bad news – and this is bad news – is that La Lengua seems to have disappeared from the most recent iteration of the English Google Maps. You may remember the heady glory days of the revolution when La Lengua was practically visible from space:

But as you might have noticed on the first frame of the top gif, La Lengua is missing.

Google giveth, and Google taketh away! The LaLeReCaCo (La Lengua Revolutionary Cartography Council) is maintaining active watch (i.e. hitting refresh and hiding tears) on this disconcerting development.

But regardless of the naming whims of our mapping overlords, La Lengua will live forever as long as taquerias roam free. ¡Viva La Lengua Libre! ¡Continuar La Lucha!

And just this afternoon I spoke with Mike Sugerman at CBS 5. At 6PM you may very well see the back of my head and my legs as I talk (rapidly) about La Lengua at the corner of Mission & Valencia. Coherency and linearity is not guaranteed for this one, am hoping CBS 5 will be kind.

UPDATE: Screenshots from CBS 5 and Mr. Superman’s very kind treatment:

(No, that is not me in the hat.)

UPDATED UPDATE:

Behold, the CBS 5 video itself.

(click image to zoom)

UPDATE: Fundraiser for the displaced La Lenguans who lost their homes in the fire this Friday night at El Rio (8pm-2am, donations at the door, Hard French DJs will be spinning)

¡Viva La Lengua! ¡Viva La Lengua Asignada!

Fret not if you can’t immediately see it — the LaLeReMaCo (La Lengua Revolutionary Mapping Council) is rolling out the map tiles across servers worldwide as we speak.

Now’s a good time to freshen up on the Revolutionary Anthem of La Lengua.

Tonight, 7PM, Bernal Library, 500 Cortland Avenue. Maps, pictures, and whatever else I think of in the next few hours.

(La Lengua from the top of Bernal, 1888)

All La Lengua residents — be prepared to sing the Ballad of Revolutionary Glory (sung to La Bamba)

Para vivir La Lengua
Para vivir La Lengua
Se necesita el mapa antiguo.
Un puñado de mapas
Para mí para tí
Y burrito y cerveza
Yo no soy historador
Yo no soy historador
Soy burritador, soy burritador, soy burritador

But behold the changes afoot in La Lengua. Recently opened are Ichi Sushi (Mission across from Safeway) & Locavore (Mission at Valencia).

Changes to come include Belinda’s -> The Royal Cuckoo.  Also, it seems the SoCha Cafe is turning into a wine bar?

Does that say “Dell Uva”? Is that the same place as in North Beach? Hooray, wine!

Classic cars (technically a costume, I suppose).

Halloween / Dia de los Muertos crossover outside Roccopulco / old Sears building.

A car on two wheels, spooooky!

This guy was particularly excited about the Giants winning game 4.  For about two hours he and a friend incited about 90 decibels of honkapoolza at Valencia and Mission.

Given the premature honkulation thus far, I can only imagine how loud it will be if we win it.