Jesse Hazelip, Animals with Guns
Jesse Hazelip, (local?) creator of the Buffalo Bomber on the Valencia Art Wall btw 23rd and 24th.
Animals with guns. Mother Nature is pissed.
Herd (image #3):
Flock (image #4):
Attack Crane (image #2)
Lots more interesting stuff at jessehazelip.com
I like this one — Rah Re!
Hot Valencia UPS Truck-on-Truck Action
UPS getting it down, brown and dirty — knew that middle lane was good for something. Probably full of packages for hipsters:
And 10 points for whoever explains this (below the other pirate flag on Valencia):
(As usual, click to enlarge.)
Proof My Wife Loves Me
What I got for Valentine’s Day… Bacon + Chocolate = Looooove
I Need A Beer Like I Need A Nail In My Head
Wait, I do need beer! Hmm. Thankfully, the aformentioned Donnie Vomit…
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…will be performing on the Shmaltz Mission pub crawl tonight.
- Monk’s Kettle – 5pm – 6:45pm
- Amnesia – 7pm – 9pm (Donnie will definitely be at this one)
- Elixir – 9:30pm – 11pm
He was at Bender’s last night — sorry, bad blogger.
The Beer & Nosh Dinner = Beer & Sword Swallowing
Wednesday night brought us the ridiculously good Beer & Nosh Celebrity Dinner hosted by none other than world’s most powerful beer blogger, Jesse.
OK, no actual celebrities — sadly Allan from Mission Mission wasn’t able to make it — but regional breweries were finely represented: Sacramento Brewing, Triple Rock, Drake’s, Firestone Walker, Oskar Blues, and the “Born-On-Valencia” Shmaltz (more on them in a bit).
Obligatory pictures of food — Jen Biesty of Scala put together an astounding course. Below we see a poorly lit, low rez picture of an amazing risotto topped with chorizo-stuffed squid. DAMN.
The other courses were all great but my lack of photographic skillz do not do them justice.
All of the beers were excellent, and came in many shapely glasses:
They were especially well paired with each course, something I have never really appreciated until now. My favorite beer of the evening was probably the Drake’s Special Wine Barrel Blend (50% Merlot Barrel BrettAmber 50% Pinot Barrel Belgium Triple). Then there was the Albino Pyhton, paired with the risotto-squid-chorizo-palooza.
All the brewers got a chance to talk about their beers, and Shmaltz even brought Donnie Vomit, the namesake of the Human Blockhead Tough-As-Nails Lager. Who proceeded to:
A) hammer a nail into his nose:
B) Remove said nail:
C) drill a masonry bit into his nose:
D) Swallow a sword:
As you can tell, Schmaltz Brewing definitely has style. This is, of course, due to their humble roots in the Mission — they started off in the old Sears building on Valencia and Army/Cesar Chavez.
“Wha? Sears? On Valencia?” you are likely saying. “Unpossible! Valencia is and always has been is a secret garden of small and delicate boutiques!”
Not so, oh blog reader. Both Mission and Valencia were a commerical hub up until the 60s, and “3435 Army” building was a Sears Roebucks, as we can see from the SF Public Library Historical Photo Collection.
1956:
1929:
A strike in 1947 (looking north up Valecia from on top of what now is Aamco):
(That’s almost the turnout of the AA hearing!)
More photos of the “The Miracle Mile” that was the Mission 50 years ago here.
And on a more contemporary note, I won the beer making kit in the raffle at the dinner! La Lengua Lager, anyone?
Justicia Burrito en Español
So in ol’ server logs I saw that someone in Mexico ran Burrito Justice through Google translate.
There are some winners in here:
“Oh, hombre, estoy tan jonesing Trompeta de un Rey.“
“Sinceramente no sé que habría elegido una, pero sin duda han BENTON tocino.“
“Sucio, sucio Brownies”
Gracias, amigos mexicanos, for pushing your delicious food northward over the past few centuries and allowing it to culminate in the pinnacle of food delivery, los Taco Camiones.
May A Thousand Tacos Bloom
YumTacos! presents us with a most excellent taco truck map. (Thanks Britteny.)
Drill into SF, and you can see El Tonayense has quite the empire. (Don’t forget that El Tonayense’s hearing got postponed to March 11. I will post any details I figure out re time and opportunities for public comment.)
I especially like YumTaco’s mascot, “Spongebob Taco.”
Mission Mission has an official seal. I think it’s about time that Burrito Justice had a mascot. Unfortunately, I can’t draw and my burritos end up looking like sad little squashed envelopes. Any suggestions?
Mmmm, Druuuugs (aka Riiiiiibs)
Baby Blues is fully neon’d. Past their growing pains, pictures on the walls, and the staff has t-shirts.
Who knew I’d like okra this much? (Still, that is one freaky vegetable.)
I was too early for the beef ribs last night. But one day, beef ribs, you will be mine, just wait…
Good Day Moon
Further experiments in living room astronomy.
Out my window with the Lumix, full on 10x zoom with my Oakleys in front of the lens to cut the glare. (ISO 1600 and shutter speed of 1/200th if you are for some mysterious reason interested.)
and holding a little spy monocular up to the Lumix:
Mission Street Food — Saturday Night Specials
Quick notes, no pix:
- lines reasonable, though people seemed to be sitting longer than on Thursdays
- they have a deal on drinks at the Beauty Bar while you wait
- Jubelale makes its triumphant return
- miso tasty; VSF #1, PB&J and pannacotta steadfast favorites, will taught about in schools 1000 years from now
- brownie too dry. maybe melt the brie?
- Aged Angus Ribeye on Focaccia (AARF?) was stunning. I had two. I wanted three but we had to go. I look forward to AARF’s imminent return.
- bring back the Mission Melt!
All in all a good first Saturday night.
Hey, MSF, how about a twitter feed for the length of the line, drinks, and when you run out of dishes?
Burrito Justice 
