Contest: How did the used condom get on the bus?

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Photo by Flickr user pusspaw

This summer we received a couple of interesting pictures:

Exhibit A: a cherry condom and a cherry cough drop nestled in the corner of the door of the 21.

Exhibit B: a used (we think) love glove hanging off of the ceiling (!) of the 47.

Exhibit C: lonely Jimmy Hat chillin’ across the seat on the T-Third (via plug1).

These pictures beg the question: How did this used condom get on the bus?  I hope this question aroused your interest and got your creative writing juices flowing because we are having our first short fiction contest!

(My apologies — bad double entendres cannot be avoided in writing this post)

What: Muni Diaries Erotic Short Fiction Contest — How did the condom end up on the bus?

Rules: Answer the question: “How did the used condom get on the bus?” in 250 words or less.

Mistress says: Give it to us by Wednesday, Oct. 28. (Deadline extended!)

Money shot: The winner will receive a goodie bag from Good Vibrations!!! We will read our favorites at our next spoken-word party, Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence, on Oct. 30.

Watch out for that building, Muni (update)

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Update: SFWeekly reports:  Union: Barring Mechanical Failure, Driver of Crashed Muni Training Coach Likely to be Fired

Update (3:04 p.m.): SF Appeal has the update on the 3-Jackson crash.

Original post: Another bad day for Muni saw two vehicles collide on Market earlier this morning. And now, via Action News SF, reports and photos of a bus crashing into a building on Laguna near Sutter. Must’ve been either a 3-Jackson or 4-Sutter, right? We’ll update once we know more.

Pron for Transit Nerds

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San Francisco Main Lines

I was poking around Market Street Railway blog the other day when I came across the bad-ass-est site: It’s called San Francisco Cityscape, and it’s a virtual emporium of transit maps, photos of the city, even iPhone background-sized images of wonders like the Golden Gate Bridge or the cable cars on California mountain Street.

But yeah, it’s those transit map that really drew me in. Here are a couple (click image to see original in a new tab/window), but hop on over to SF Cityscapes to fully ingest these visual wonders.

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San Francisco Bay Area Rail Transit

And my favorite …

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California High-Speed Rail

Muni Art for Supervisor Eric Mar

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We had an inkling that Muni art can be really cool, and it turns out that Supervisor Eric Mar thought so too. The Richmond district supervisor recently commissioned artist Leslie Henslee, owner of Frankenartmart, to make a sculpture of the 38 Geary. She used materials from the ‘hood like Ocean Beach sand, Golden Gate Park parts, and Richmond haunts to make the sculpture:

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Pretty awesome that she’s sourced these local materials! See more pictures of the Heslee’s 38-Geary or go to Frankenart’s website to find out more about her projects.

Thanks to rider Joey for the tip!

Be our 1,000th Twitter follower, win a Muni T-shirt! (update w/winner)

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Update (Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 4:00 p.m.): And the winner is … memeticfield of San Francisco. Congrats!

Update (Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 9:22 a.m.): We have a winner! Just not sure who it is yet … more to come.

Original post: Shameless self-promotion? Sure. Bean-counting? Maybe. Winning free stuff? Hell yeah!

Muni Diaries is proud to say that we’re fast approaching our milestone 1,000th follower on Twitter. In order to perhaps get there a little faster, and to show our appreciation, Walter Koning is offering one of his awesome Muni T-shirts as a prize to that on-the-nose 1,000th, non-spam, non-Brittney-fucked-vids follower. We’d like you to at least be from SF or the Bay Area, as much as we love our peeps in other time zones. So spread the word. We’ll announce the Twitterer who nails it at 1K as an update to this post once that happens. Stay tuned …

P.S. Don’t stop with a follow. Spread your Muni stories here, and tell your friends about Muni Diaries.

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