Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Photo by wilhelmja
Update (9:19 a.m. Monday): SF Weekly reports that the cable car operator is “fighting for his life.”
Original post: A cable car operator was stabbed this afternoon. Police have arrested a total of four suspects.
SF Appeal has details, via Bay City News.
Starting next week, you’ll see certain posts on Muni Diaries, such as our Fashion Friday posts, that are marked with this little “Sponsored Post” red icon: 
These posts are supported by our local sponsors, such as Secession Art and Design and Mobile Spinach. In the 2.5 years that we have been running Muni Diaries, you haven’t seen any advertisements, but we’re starting to experiment with sponsored posts and possibly some advertisements on the sidebar of our site in the near future.
Having ads and sponsored posts might be standard fare for most of the sites that you read. But because Muni Diaries is built on your stories and our common love for our city, we thought it is only appropriate that we invite your opinion:
What do you think of advertisements on Muni Diaries, and what is your threshold on seeing ads on the site?
Earlier this year, I talked to some journalism students at San Francisco State University about how we started Muni Diaries. One of the first questions from the students was this: “Who is your staff, and where does the money come from?” This was funny to us because the short answer was that there was no money that came from anywhere…yet.
Muni Diaries is run by two humble people from our living rooms when we get home from our 9-5. Our website is generously hosted by Laughing Squid, and graphic and site design donated thus far by Suzanne Lagasa and Yen Pai. But we would like to pay our designers, hire a part time web administrator, and invest in other site features that make Muni Diaries a welcome place to share your transit stories. And we’d like to enlist local sponsors to help us with expenses as small as printing event programs and as large as hiring a website designer and beyond.
With sponsored posts and advertisements, we intend to bring you the same level of fun, entertaining content that you’ve seen on Muni Diaries so far, keeping all our content relevant to you and life on Muni. So if you’ve got something to say — whether it’s about sponsored posts, the business of online media, or our favorite: that hilarious thing that happened to you on the bus today — tell us in the comments or email us any time.
Photo by Ethan O’Brien
In Muni news this week:
San Francisco Public Press has a new print edition out, available for $2. There is an ” extensive report on Muni’s elusive quest for on-time service,” which we haven’t read because we are chained to our laptops. But if you are so lucky as to see the outside world today and breathe some non-cubicle air, you can buy the print issue.
These photos on Flickr show a very surreal side of Muni. Enjoy the photos, pen us in for the happy hours next Wednesday, and have a great weekend!
Photo by Dan McKinley at the I Live Here:SF SOMArts exhibit
Photo by jasontakesphotos
Photo by Anthony Brown
Photo by Jonathan Fleming
Photo by Kelly Nicolaisen
The submission deadline for the first Fashion Friday will be Thursday, Nov. 18. We’re looking for photos of your fellow Muni riders who have an inspiring style.
The winner of Fashion Friday will receive a gift certificate to Secession Art and Design. You can use the gift certificate for art, jewelry, or, say, dresses by Field Day made from vintage sheets (on Lea, below, right), or custom draped dresses by Rachel Znerold (on Lyz, below, left).
We look forward to your photos! Send them to muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com.
Photo by Alyssa Jones
Yup, and next Wednesday you’ll be able to drink under the bus stop at the Muni Diaries Happy Hours, in conjunction with I Live Here:SF and SOMArts.
For one night, SOMArts will become a space for you to record your own Muni story for a digital story capsule. We will be on hand to record your story, whether it’s audio, video, text, or art, in the Muni Diaries story booth — under a real Muni shelter. This was a really amazing feat, thanks to the help of SFMTA. We could hardly believe it when the shelter was delivered to the gallery.
Your stories will be collected on a new page we’ll be unveiling on Muni Diaries called Muni Time Capsule, a treasure trove of photos, schedules, maps, stories (we hope!), and ephemera from Muni days gone by.
Inside the gallery you’ll see photographs by Julie Michelle, the mastermind behind I Live Here:SF, art by Chris Rusak, and collection of film archived by Rick Prelinger.
Update: And did we mention the food that will be on-hand to help you sop up your happy hour libations? Well, we’re pleased to announce that Sataysfied, Casey’s Pizza, and Nosh This will on hand to help keep you satisfied.
Details:
Happy Hours with Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street (cross street is 8th Street)
Take Muni there: 12, 19, 27, 47.
The main gallery is packed with so much great stuff, you’d have to come see it for yourself. A sneak peek:
Photo by somarts
Photo by Donald Kinney
Art by Chris Rusak — you should read about how his work at SOMArts is inspired by the stories of the portrait subjects.
Photo by Lee de Broff
Eden from Secession Art and Design will also be there with the transit-themed shirts and onesies you loved so much at our last event. See you next Wednesday!
Photo by Dave Golden
That said, I jumped at the chance to do this post today after Eugenia forwarded me some more photos showing people on Muni going to the parade or celebrating on Monday night (see below). It really was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, being here when the team won the World Series. So one last time, I just want to say: Congrats to the team.
Tonight, we’ll be at Julie Michelle‘s i live here: SF art opening at SOMArts. Julie is amazing. Her work is amazing. This show is gonna be through-the-roof amazing, celebrating one of the best reasons to love this city: its people. If you can’t make it tonight, the show will stay up until Nov. 30. Oh, and also, too: Muni Diaries will be hosting a night at Julie’s show on Nov. 17. We invite you to come share your stories with us in person. Stay tuned for more details.
There was also an election this week, I think.
The week’s Muni news:
Photo by Brandon Doran
And here are a few shots by Lee from Monday night, just after the Giants clinched the World Series win:
