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Former Oakland Tribune reporter Bill Brand has succombed to injuries sustained in a February 8 accident. Brand was hit by the N-Judah near Second and King Streets.
Many of us here at Muni Diaries, in addition to advocating safety in and around Muni vehicles, are journalists or former journalists. We send heartfelt condolences to Brand’s family and friends.
Please be careful out there.
The first Muni Diaries pub crawl was a success! Despite some of us forgetting what time the festivities began *points at self*, a nice little group of us met up first at Lucky 13, surrounding a table covered in happy-hour pints, Goldfish crackers, popcorn and Muni Diaries buttons.
From there, we NextBus’d a 22, which we thought we were boarding. The marquis on the bus that pulled up read, “S.F. Muni,” and the driver asked everyone who boarded where they wanted to go. If their desired stop was along the route to (presumably) the Potrero yard, they were allowed gratis entry. Those of us ready to fork over fare lucked out, thanks to this exceedingly generous driver.
From there, we swung over to Dalva, where we happened to bump into Greg from N-Judah Chronicles on his way out. We convinced Greg and his brother to stick around, and they did. We picked up a couple more crawlers at Dalva (which, for the record, is an iPhone 3G and EDGE dead zone, thus the Twitter drop off last night), then proceeded to Mission to await a 14 or 49.
OMG, it’s one day away: The first-ever Muni Diaries pub crawl.
Come out to schmooze and booze it with Muni Diaries editors, readers, and contributors. We’re looking forward to putting faces with some familiar names we’ve grown to love over the past several months. Here’s your chance to do the same, and to get your midweek drink on, to boot! The forecast calls for clear skies (remember those?), so there’s even more reason to celebrate.
Feel free to join for all or some of the event as we snake our way from Church and Market over to the Mission. Here’s the schedule:
6 p.m.: Lucky 13: 2140 Market St. between 15th Street and Church. (routes: J, K/T, F, N, S, M, L, 22, 37)
7:45ish: We’ll move on to Dalva: 3121 16th St. between Valencia and Guerrero (we’ll take the 22 from Lucky 13. See 511.org’s alternatives if you’re starting here)
9ish: Finally, to Doc’s Clock: 2575 Mission between 21st and 22nd streets (we’ll either take the 14 or 49 — here are alternative routes if you’re joining here)
It’s not too late to RSVP on our Facebook page, if you haven’t already.
Look for tweets, diaries, and photos to come out of this event, beginning in real-time.
See you tomorrow!
xoxo
Muni Diaries
Photo by Flickr user/amazing photoblogger/Muni photos pool member WHAT IM SEEING dot com
Our very own Suzanne was trolling Flickr getting our Muni photo pool together and found this other captivating Flickr Group Pool: Muni Mani-Pedi. It is, very much so, what it sounds like — photos of people snip-snapping away, and probably subsequently depositing their clippings for the rest of us to relish.
If you’ve captured photos or (even barfier) videos of this strange but much-too-frequent phenomenon, send them to us and the Flickr group.
Allan at Mission Mission alerts us to an accident involving the F bumping into a car. No word on what happened, or even when (the Tumblr post says February 13), but ouch … it hit someone’s ZipCar.
Anyone out there have details? Bailey Genine?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pregnancy is making me mean
Today the muni was crowded. I had to wait forever for the L. I had the smarts to take whatever train to West P. and then wait for the L so most of the train ride wasn’t so bad. However, when I got on the L it was super crowded. I unbuttoned my jacket, stuck my pregnant belly out as far as I could and no one gave me a seat. In fact, most of the other Sunset residents on the train closed their eyes and pretended I wasn’t there.
I decided to choose a target.
I saw a 20 year old girl who I thought had a strong back and should give me her seat. I stood right beside her and stared at her. I didn’t take my eyes off of her. Then she turned up her ipod and closed her eyes. I moved closer to the point where everytime the train jerked, my belly hit her shoulder. I wish it would have hit her head, but my belly isn’t that big yet. Then I got a seat, perpendicular to her. I positioned my feet and my backpack so she had to really squirm to get out of her seat. When she did, I moved my foot a little bit and tripped her. She didn’t fall. She just stumbled for half a second. After I did it, I didn’t exactly feel bad, but I did notice how mean pregnancy is making me. Does this make me a bad person?