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This Muni Metro left us googly eyed

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…and also a little scared and a touch like Cookie Monster.

Not one week after we receive an important dispatch on the Muni Scream lights—party on, pareidolia—we receive word, from rider Matt, that the application of googly eyes for delight-inducing purposes is alive and well.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen googly eyes on Muni Metro and we certainly hope it’s not the last. If you’ve yet to be convinced of the delight factor, googly eyes actually represent a totally an important art movement.

h/t to rider Matt—thanks, Matt!

Spotted googly eyes in the wild? Gone googly-eyed over something you saw in the wild? Both are fair game here at Muni Diaries, and we’d love if you shared on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Our email inbox, muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com, never has eyes bigger than its stomach, so don’t fret and feed the beast.

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Do you know about the Muni “scream” light?

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Somewhere (on a Metro), not-so-secretly, a Muni fixture is feeling exactly the same way as you. Muni rider Diana Tran on Twitter pointed out this light fixture below the door bars, which looks like a face screaming in disbelief (or annoyance or pain?). And now we can’t unsee it.

Here it is:

Closer:

Ack! Arg!

Thanks to rider @mwichary for the tip. Pareidolia for the win.

Got other oft-overlooked observations for your fellow riders? Tag us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Our email inbox, muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com, is always open!

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What’s the back story to this BART station graffiti wall?

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How many San Francisco graffiti artists can you spot in this photo. Reader and keen urban observer Cole Brennan (Belle_Cunningham on Instagram) spotted this wall of graffiti signatures, on which the cleaning crew and artists seemed to have reached an accord:

Most graffiti gets cleaned off of the Muni system pretty regularly. Not so with the back of this map, which puts a neatly partitioned blank wall on the landing of the long stairs up from Bart. The graffiti artists and the cleaning crew seem to have some sort of detente worked out for this wall. I spend way too long trying to read it all, searching for new tags and regulars. That Rveng is classic, and you can’t throw a rock in this town without hitting something Zamar has tagged, but this is the first I’ve seen of Croak. Visiting artist? New tagger? Oldtimer just switching it up?

I’m no graffiti artist, and I won’t pretend to love all of it. Certainly, some tags demonstrate nothing but dull, amateur hubris. The good tags have a confidence that I admire, though.

Here’s an interview with Zamar, who created the mischievous squid seen all around town.

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How to transform Clipper into a wearable

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As far as looks go, Clipper is no match for the colorful Fast Passes of yesteryear, but if you have enough patience and geek skills, you can still remedy the situation. A clever life hacker on Hackernoon extracted the brains of the Clipper card and embedded into a bracelet. Blogger Stephen Cognetta got tired of carrying his Clipper card, so he extracted the brains of the Clipper card (the NFC chip) and embedded it into a couple of different styles of bracelets and wearables.

Here’s how:

First, he dissolved his Clipper card in a jar of acetone to extract just the NFC chip.

Then, he checked if the NFC chip is still functional: smart idea, there.

After that, you can embed the chip (and antennae) in almost any thing. The wearable world is your oyster!

Here’s the full post with step-by-step instructions. I’m thinking a Clipper card ring, a la mob boss style, is in order.

Thanks to Amy at Capp Street Crap for the tip.

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Muni Life Lesson: Don’t lose your head

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Mannequins ride Muni, too. Sometimes, they lose their heads. It happens to the best of us, of course: Who hasn’t lost their mind on Muni at one point or another?

h/t @Rachel_Jokes on Twitter

In other unsettling imagery, Muni Diaries readers once found a doll left behind on the N-Judah (that extra creepy placement, though…) and a doll so sketchy, Muni riders chose to wait in the rain rather than sit next to it.

Calling all podcast fans: Listen to our live stories on the new Muni Diaries podcast — bonus coolness points if you do so while riding Muni. Find us on iTunes and Google Play.

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