Weekend Photos: On a lighter note
Photo by All City
Enjoy these photos, the weather, and we’ll keep our fingers crossed for an uneventful Muni commute home.
Photo by Vivian Chen
Category: diaries
Unnecessary Rudeness: A PSA of Sorts
Photo by Tantek Çelik
She says this in response:
“Can’t you read? It said ‘already processed.’ Fucking idiot.”
So … some friendly reminders and tips for everyone at home:
- “EH-EH” is the no-no sound. “EH,” singular, is the good sound. Both are really loud and obvious.
- Those machines always tell you, aurally and on the screen, when your tag worked. Pretty sure it displays a red light if it didn’t.
- It happens to the best of us. I usually board the bus, rolling my eyes after two tries, and tag at the back doors.
- The drivers can be faulted for a great many things, but failure to tag a card on persnickety machines isn’t one of them.
She was sweet as pie to the passengers, perhaps realizing how snatchy the whole exchange was.
Open Thread: Ding dong
Photo by Andrea Hale
Consider this post a chance for you to reflect on the poop-stained tenure of Mr. Ford, relish in his removal, or turn your sights toward his replacement and potential ways to get Muni back on track.
Also, this was fun.
Yarnbomb a BART Seat!
Photo: Livermore Patch
Did you celebrate June 11, International Yarn Bombing Day? Yeah, me neither. But our man Ed Casey at @BARTDiaries found an interview with someone named Street Color, who yarn bombed the hell out of a BART seat.
How exactly did this happen? First, Street Color “knit really solidly for a month and hysterically for a week.” Then the ride begins. From the Livermore Patch:
Actually I made it as a slipcover so that I could take it on and off. Originally I planned to sew the piece to the seat but as I knit on and on I started to like that seat cover and I knew that BART would cut it off and throw it away . I wanted to be able to make it into a performance piece and put it on lots of different trains. So I put it on the seat and took pictures and then sat on it and rode to San Francisco.
Read the rest of the interview at Livermore Patch.
By the way, Ed prefers the term “guerilla knitting” to “yarn bombing.”
Now, when will someone declare cross stitch warfare on Muni seats?
Thanks, @knithacker!
Kirk Read on Muni: Humanity and Criminality
I missed my preferred mode of Muni transportation, which I think it’s the only dignified way to ride Muni: the underground. Riding above ground you’re just open to all manners of humanity and criminality and indecency, really. I missed that, so I was left with a double bus on Mission — the 14. Exactly. So I step into my carriage…I went to the back of the bus because that’s where the most interesting people are. So that’s where I sit, in solidarity with the interesting people.
On this night there was nobody in the back of the bus, so I sit down. Then I hear this rustling and I look down, and there is this little pile of fabric squirming on the floor. What is going on?! It took a minute and I realize it’s this little woman who was rubbing against everything, all up on the windows. It’s like when you’re on ecstasy and you really let yourself go. She’s not touching me because she has some manners. But she’s like touching the air, and I’m fascinated, and I’m just like, YES! I’m just gonna sit here and behold.
Watch the video to find out what happened in the rest of Kirk’s story.
Got a story of humanity, criminality, or indecency on the bus? You know where to send it.
Spark brings life to a Muni bus
Or would you say that’s a full-blown fire? Photo by Mikael Vejdemo Johansson.