Weekend Photos: Beautiful Stranger


Photo by karolinecollins

Today’s post features a woman with amazing style, as captured by karolinecollins on Instagram. Usually I might find this photograph slightly voyeuristic, but this woman’s style is so spot-on that I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Everything’s perfect: the vintage dress, matching gloves, platinum hair, and tattoos. She is reading “The Hunger Games,” I believe. And if I’m not mistaken, is that a septum ring?

Too cool.

Thanks for the sartorial inspiration, whoever you are.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!


Photo by hellaxlizz


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Photo by sarahderagon

Australian transit “ads” we could use for Muni and BART

I hate to be the one to say this isn’t a real transit ad, but this isn’t a real transit ad. It should be, yes, but it’s not.

Patricia called our attention to these brutally honest parody ads via Happy Place. The ads explain how you can easily not be an asshole on Down Undah’s Queensland Rail. They’re meant to mock the exceedingly polite — and accidentally passive-aggressive, right? — Queensland Rail etiquette tips. Have a look at what Happy Place describes as, “…five examples that much more closely resemble our subway experiences, plus or minus a few breast-gropers and/or gibberish-spouting homeless women.”

My favorite Bay Area transit etiquette rules: “Don’t give your giant Styrofoam its own seat on crowded trains,” “BART isn’t your living room, mister,” and “It’s impolite to take up extra bus seats and flip people off.”

What are yours?

Muni Emergency Button Looks Appropriately Surprised


Photo by David Lytle

Someone decided to add a pair of eyes to the Muni emergency button. From photographer David Lytle:

Someone put googly eyes on emergency car stop button casing turning the forbidden red button into something much more hilarious. They also transformed the usual monotonous morning commute into a carload of passengers who briefly broke their silence and laughed together. Well played, witty vandal!

Well played indeed! Thanks, David!

“Hi, sandwich. How are you?”


Photo: Mike Willis

100 Muni StoriesYou’re technically not supposed to eat or drink on Muni, but you’re technically not supposed to do a lot of things on Muni that happen anyway. We’ve had lots of stories of rogue bus eating — fact: eating Skittles eating soup — some of the most quintessential Muni moments. To whit:

I think I speak for all of us when I ask, “What kind of sandwich?” and say, “Of course she was.” We love public transit, too.

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