St. Luke’s Campus Community Forum, Tonight at 6pm
Come by St. Anthony’s on Precita tonight to see if our friends have truly taken community input into their plan for the future of St. Lukes. I am rather curious to see how they are going to reconcile the featureless walls with the city’s plans for Cesar Chavez. (And hey, how about a long park!)
And for those of you disinterested in city planning — will the food match the tamales they had at the last meeting?
Date: Tuesday, June 23
Time: 6:00pm
Place: St. Anthony’s Immaculate Conception School Cafeteria
299 Precita @ Shotwell
Swoops The Bird, Pick Your Friends Wisely
Dear Swoops the Bird, you are cute and all, and as a dad I totally respect you protecting your family.
But as you grow your little revolution, don’t get the pigeons involved (as seems to be the case below). Seriously, that’s just gross.
Pigeons are NOTORIOUS for delusions of grandeur. I bet you this is what that pigeon is thinking:
(Here’s the link to this ever-classic Buck Rogers episode, Time of the HAAAAWWWWWWK. A two-parter no less!)
I knew Hawk, and Pigeon is no Hawk. Sadly, Pigeon’s pretensions also lead him to believe he has hair like this:
By the way, not only did Hawk have one of the coolest ships ever, he had the coolest joystick EVER:
Oh, early 80’s TV, you gave us so much yet asked for so little…
Gamma Ammag
The DPT breaks out the 733T greek alphabet in da noe!
And here we see Noe’s spin on the city’s Pavement to Parks program — existing green space ever so slowly and subtly encroaching upon neighboring asphalt:
This is how it all starts — first, it’s a chair. Then a swing. Then a pond… And then we end up back with this:
Sayonara Moon
Japan launched a satellite with an HD camera into lunar orbit two years ago. The probe was named Kaguya, after a rather appropriate character in a thousand year old Japanese story, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Last week it was purposefully crashed into the moon. Below is 3D HD footage of its last moments before impact. Worth hitting the HD button and going full screen to watch it try to skim over those last hills and crater rims.
Kaguya also got rather dramatic HD views of Earth while in orbit.
Earthrise:
Earthset:
Plus closeups of the moon’s surface:
More HD videos on the Japanese Space Agency’s YouTube page.
さよなら、かぐや 。
Pizza 3.14159
As reported on many fine blogs, Pi Bar is opening up in the old Suriya Thai place.
So I don’t quite understand all the uproar over “too many pizza places in the Mission”, but hey, I guess some people get tired of complaining about too many taquerias.
I love Delfina but it’s a hike, as is Flour & Water. But my stance on the poor state of utility pizza in this city is well known (well, it’s known):
I have a theory that each city has the ability to do one or two high-volume convenience foods really well, where the average option is really quite good — but this specialization consumes so much karmic food preparation energy that the other quick food options are average at best, if not sad. (Note that I’m not talking about restaurants here, in which we have an embarrassing surplus of talent, but rather non-chain, walk-in, walk-out.)
So having a solid pizza place in La Lengua will be great, and if they do slices I will be THRILLED. Arinell’s is OK, but ever since the Cybelle’s on 24th stopped doing those little slices aka mini pizzas, I’ve been bummed. And If they throw in some vegan pies for our friends, all the better. (And beer! Pitchers please! And tables I can carve my name into.)
They had better paint something AWESOME on that door or the ghost of elephants will, um, trample upon their dough, and not in a good way.
As Vegansaurus notes, stop by and tell them what you want — slices, vegan, pitchers, murals… Vive la rivoluzione (della pizza)!
Math Dork Observation – the digits in the address, 1432, can be rearranged to be 3.142=∏!
Font Dork Observation – ∏| !
Jesse Hazelip (Buffalo Bomber) Interview
For those of you who remember the Buffalo Bomber on the Valencia Art Wall…
…here’s an interview by Submerge Magazine with its creator, Jesse Hazelip.
http://submergemag.com/featured/think-big/805/
He also has a new collection showing in Sacramento:
- Tempest Turner
- June 13 – Aug 9
- @ Space07
- 1421 R. Street, Sacramento
Valencia Art Wall – Let Freedom Ring (But No Bunnies…)
A couple of new additions to the VAW this weekend. As usual, click to zoom.
Dance, Dance Revolution:
Let Freedom Ring:
(OK, I get the snakes. But the bunny, WTF? Maybe in Australia, but not exactly the core complaint of the rebellious Americans against their British overlords.)
UPDATE: I don‘t get the snakes.
Of course, there is my current animal-of-mystery issue — something taking a crap in the same location in my backyard each night. Needless to say, I am not amused and am looking for a bird of prey for hire. Rest assured, this mysterious animal will be revealed via infrared night camera, as long time readers will remember from the Tomato Troubles.
Mißion Delores Parc
WTF, Google Maps?
While I have come to appreciate concrete typos from the DPT, I expect better quality control from our mapping overlords.
One Way Safeway Driveway
Our favorite Safeway gets it right when it comes to the access road from 29th and Tiffany.
Hooray, dedicated pedestrian walkway! One way northbound driveway, so no more access to 29th downhill from the parking lot which will make that intersection less of a clusterfuck. Great improvents all around — as noted by our friends at da noe valley *buzz* the parking lot was “a labyrinth of death and chaos + pigeons“.
Now if the Mission Safeway could only figure out how to get more than three cashiers during the evening shopping rush hour. Typical lines: looking left towards the deli:
Looking right towards the veggies:
I do like what they’ve done over the past several years, and like the people who work there, but come on guys, throw us a couple more folks from 6 to 9 pm. Does the Marina Safeway have this issue? Doubt it.
Tonayense Migration
It’s spring, and much like the swallows of Capistrano, our famed Tonayense truck at 19th and Harrison has migrated north — a block.
Evidence of the erstwhile negotiations below, in dramatic panoramovalvision. Red circle – old location, green circle = new location. Click oval to zoom for thousands of pixels wide. Students are safe, society has convenient access to delicious tacos.
Zoom. (Note – green circle will not appear in real life.)
Pro 1 – nice mural!
Pro 2 – tacos taste just as good in the new location.
Con 1 – no ledge on which to sit.
Con 2 – Google Maps needs to be updated.
Burrito Justice 