Tomato Monster Revealed!
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Tomatoes not attacked by monsters. |
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Through the magic that is the infrared spectrum, and Elgato, I bring you… The Tomato Monster:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you wash your vegetables.
He is no longer Remy — this little beady-eyed bastard is now working on my green tomatoes that haven’t ripened yet. My salsa is not amused.
Is there some sort of mouse-proof tomato sock I can buy?
Brothers Convicted in Oakland Taco Truck Slaying
The Oakland DAs get a conviction:
An Alameda County jury has convicted two brothers of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a father of four at an Oakland taco truck, authorities said today.
I’m glad to see justice being served by the Oakland DA office — life isn’t enough.
But god this is really depressing. My condolences to the Mejia family — you can donate to his memorial fund at the address below.
Abel Martinez Mejia Memorial Fund
City National Bank
San Leandro Branch
1100 San Leandro Blvd, Suite #100
San Leandro, CA 94577
(Mail only, no wire transfer info available, so go break out those checks and stamps you never use.)
Favorite Mission Street Food Sandwich?
If you were stuck on a desert island and could only have one type of Mission Street Food sandwich, which would it be?
I honestly don’t know which one I’d choose, but it would definitely have benton bacon.
Mission Street Food — Drama!
A bit of drama tonight before the opening — “James the Hater” from Vanguard Properties (the stone building on the corner) came out all agro, getting in the MSF team’s face, yelling that their permit was bogus, they were dirty, they had no right to be there, etc. (MSF does have a permit, they hose down the sidewalk after closing, pick up after themselves and are nice people.)
Anyway, the guy was a douchebag. I don’t think he likes sandwiches. Or people. Was he attacked by a taco truck as a child? Maybe he had just come down from Medjool and was disoriented. So if you see him, tell him to hug it out and buy him a Mission Melt. Karen gets big points for unflappability, especially since The Hater came in with no intent of listening to anyone but himself.
To keep things positive, I’ve created a “What’s your favorite sandwich” poll.
Obligatory pictures of Mr. Benton’s bacon. Dear god is that amazing. I almost considered putting it on my brownie.
I learned how they make the bread so fluffy. The flatten down a ball of dough, roll it up into a cylinder, roll THAT into a spiral, and then flatten it again. Apparently they fight over who gets to press and roll the bread since it’s a great ab workout.
Met Allan and Katie from Mission Mission. Hooray! Allan had a life-sized Death and Taxes t-shirt on.
Oh, and there IS panorama software for the iPhone!
I took this with Panolab — it’s free. You line up ghost images of photos (live or from your library) around a hemisphere. Pretty interesting, but it doesn’t adjust light levels (though I kind of like it that way). Click to enlarge:
And there’s Panorama – $10, but it stitches and adjusts lighting quite nicely. Good support — they’re out of New Zealand and got back to me right away. Click to widen:
Mission Bar Review
Nice Mission bar review by Bay or Bust.
Elbo Room *is* pretty dark but I’m OK with that. My European friends LOOOVE it when they are in town. The upstairs is decent, but good god does it get ridiculously hot up there. Time for some roof fans, Elbonians.
Food at the Phoenix is surprisingly good. 500 Club and Make Out Room are solid. This Inner Mission Beer Parlor intrigues me.
I also like Latin American Club, especially if you can get the table at the little stage in the back. Rather tasty (and deadly powerful) margaritas there, plus they are cool if you bring in a burrito from El Faralito. And of course there’s The Knockout.
But you can’t beat sitting outside with beer in hand at Zeitgeist on a nice day. I am a big fan of the outdoor beer. It’s half the reason I have a backyard.
Taco Truck Poll – Should It Stay or Should It Go?
The erstwhile journalism students behind missionlocal.org have put up a poll on our neighborhood taco troubles.
“Should the Taco Truck Stay within 1500 Feet of John O’Connell?” (Middle-right of the page.)
Yes is already at 88% (36 votes), while the forces of No are at 12% (5 votes). Will Burrito Justice be served? I think you know what to do.
They also added a video of street shots with some interviews.
But check out that fence behind Art Wilinksi — no *way* are you “passing a taco” through that, even if the students Steve McQueen’d that garden fence first…
Here’s what I think is a less unreasonable suggestion — if a food truck is within 1500 feet of a school, it cannot sell to minors during the day. (Of course, the same should apply to any place that sells food. And ice cream trucks.)
Mother Mother — Free Song
Mother Mother update — Am*zon just released O My Heart as a free song. How can you not like the free music? (Sorry for the URL-fu, WP eats many an off-site media links.)
They play soon! Hotel Utah! Nov 5th! You will enjoy it!
As much as I like Body of Years (iTunes), Polynesia is still my favorite.
Tomato Troubles
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The good news is lots of tomatoes. |
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The bad news is something other than me is eating my tomatoes. |
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I am not amused.
Any ideas? Rats? Racoons? Cats? Snakes? Whatever it is, it has good taste as it picks the best ones on the vine. Foodie vermin. Fuckers. Putting up an infrared video camera tonight. War has been declared. |
Fiesta on The Hill – Blue Rabbit, Tri-Tip
Our neighbors in Bernal had a cool little street fair on Cortland today. Nice to go to a fair without all the typical Marina-crap-vendors you see at every other street fair (the exceptions being the Mission, and, well, Folsom fairs).
Good food — here’s my tri-tip sandwich before it got devoured. I am blanking on the name of the green sauce — chiro something? And of course I can’t remember the name the vendor. Useful, eh?
Good live music, two stages at opposite ends of the fair. I was particularly taken by Blue Rabbit. I bought their new CD, Separate: 
They will be doing a CD Release party at the Hotel Utah on 16 November.
Damn Dancing Robots
Guerrero and the mid-twenties.
This is of course after they poison our asses with poisonous gasses.
Damn, just realized that the one above doesn’t have by favorite part, the “Binary Solo”:
Burrito Justice 