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Photo by Flickr user eviloar
Whoa, this week passed me by just like that. Enjoy the sunshine, and don’t forget: you still have time to submit your obit for your favorite dying lines.
Here at Muni Diaries headquarters (also known as my second-hand desk from IKEA), we are gearing up for our second spoken word party, “Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence.” Email us to join the line up or, as always, if you want to share your Muni tales or photos.
Have a great weekend!
Photo by Tangobaby
This short week, as usual, is a mix bag of the good (puppies on the bus!), the gross (taking a leak on the T), and the I-Don’t-Know-What (hope you paid your fare this week).
I spent a good while looking at Tangobaby’s photo above, trying to figure out how she took this beautiful picture. Enjoy the pics and have a good weekend, everybody.
Photo by Flickr user Brittney
Photo by Flickr user Mr. Read
Brittney Gilbert over at the awesome CBS5 Eye on Blogs snapped this picture on BART. She noticed the tattoo on her subject:
His tattoo says Shit in cursive with a teardrop dotting the i.
Hmm.
Send us your BART stories or photos at bartdiaries@gmail.com. And be sure and tag your Flickr photos to the BART Photos group.
The 4-Sutter, a long-time friend, died this October after a lengthy battle with ridership and budgets. The 4-Sutter developed a tiny but loyal following during his lifetime. He is survived by his family of Muni lines.
Okay, there’s my obit for the 4 (sniff, sniff). Where’s yours?
We are collecting obituaries for the poor Muni lines that are getting the axe this fall. Send us your best tales from these lines, or honor the lines with your own death notice. Mark them “Muni Obituary” and send it to muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com by September 30 and we’ll publish them here during October, when the lines go quiet.
We’ve so far received odes to the 20-Columbus and 26-Valencia, but where’s the love for the other dying routes according to the SFMTA website:
* 4-Sutter
* 7-Haight
* 16AX-Noriega “A” Express
* 53-Southern Heights
* 89-Laguna Honda
We’ve also received at least one suggested obituary for one of the route segments that’s getting the guillotine: the 38-Geary Ocean Beach branch. Here’s a list of the other line portions that are going the way of the dodo:
* N-Judah on The Embarcadero and King Street (weekends only)
* 1-California south of Sacramento (weekdays only)
* 2-Clement west of 14th Avenue
* 10-Townsend north of Broadway and to Transbay Terminal
* 12-Folsom/Pacific along The Embarcadero
* 18-46th Avenue along Geary and Point Lobos
* 21-Hayes west of Stanyan
* 29-Sunset in the Presidio north of Baker Beach
* 36-Teresita from Monterey/Foerster to Balboa Park BART
* 38-Geary Ocean Beach branch
* 41-Union between Lyon and Steiner
* 67-Bernal Heights on portions of Crescent and Mission
* 88-BART Shuttle west of I-280
* 108-Treasure Island between Transbay Terminal and Caltrain
Remember, you have until September 30 to pen your draft and get it in to Muni Diaries. We look forward to reading them!
Update: (Sept. 1, 2009. 10:30 a.m.) Since we first published this post, we’ve received a few more juicy bits of Muni merchandise.
First, as seen at SF Zine Fest, PunkPunk is selling FastPass buttons and pins (above).
At $5 a pop, get ’em while they’re available. I’ll have a set of 12, please.
Then, niffx on Zazzle informed of these totally rad Muni curvy-logo shirts (perhaps the source of many people’s misguided belief that Muni is an all-cap acronym?):
These shirts are $22.75, so save your pennies and help these artists out. You’ll look good doing it, if we do say so ourselves 😉
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Muni Shirts by Walter Konig
The phrase “economic stimulus package” always makes me feel a little inappropriate. But say you have some extra cash to, er, help the economy — we’ve found some great Muni stuff for you to spend it on.
Muni Shirts by Walter Konig (of Walnotes) are based on a design that was sold in New York a few years ago. “When I saw them I wondered why they didn’t have them for San Francisco. So I sat in Cafe Abir and designed them. I used a Muni Map to figure out locations along the way,” Walter told us.
The shirts come in a variety of colors, many of them printed on American Apparel tees.
Buy Muni Shirts by Walnotes here:
Brand Fury (780 Sutter St)
Artist X-Change (3169 16th near Guerrero)
SoMe (Haight, east of Masonic)
440 Brannan
Walter said that Lower Hater (597 Haight Street) will have them soon, too.
More shirts and other goodies after the jump, including a really awesome hoodie with an old-school Muni bus print and buttons made from old transfers.
“Bowels” by adotjdotsmith. Taken at the Embarcadero station.
I’m tethered to my computer, daydreaming of hot weather, watermelon, public transit, Muni Diaries’ next spoken-word party, ice cream, steak … I can go on and on.
While I daydream away, here are some new photos we saw this week in the Muni Flickr pool.
Tough day with the start of school. Photo by David Gallagher.
Photo by bingolio.
Another by adotjdotsmith, taken on the 38L.
Happy weekend, everybody.