Category: Photos

Sometimes the trip takes so long, you just gotta bust one out and get the party started.

Via @freakoverlord

Photo by rickibaseta

Top fun thing this weekend: if you do anything at all, cross the Bay and go to the Bay Area Unified Slam Team Finals in Oakland! Hosted by Jamie Dewolf (Tourettes Without Regrets), tonight’s show will also feature World Champion Beatbox Butterscotch! These slam poets are amazing, and Butterscotch — you have to see her, period.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

The Bay Area UNIFIED Slam Team Finals featuring BUTTERSCOTCH! w/ special guest Josef Anolin
FRIDAY May 11th, 2012, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The Lakeside Theater at The Kaiser Center
300 Lakeside Drive (easy walking distance from 19th Street BART)
(near 21st & Harrison on Lake Merritt)

Photo by rons1ne

Photo by Thomas Genin

Photo by Robert Livingston

Victor had an unusual ride on Muni recently.

I was coming home one afternoon and I sat near the front of the bus. It was less crowded. It was less stinky. A few older people sat around me … and a kid. I say kid because I’m old now and anyone under thirty seems like a kid. The kid appeared to be in his early twenties. Skinny. Nerdy glasses. T-shirt. Jeans. Muni rider #567890. I suppose that’s why I hardly noticed him. He didn’t make much eye contact with me and I didn’t with him either. We were on the bus together for maybe seven minutes.

My stop arrived. I got up and stepped down the backdoor stairs. Suddenly, I felt a hand grabbing my shoulder pulling me back. In a quick “WTF!” reaction, I spun around and saw the Asian kid standing above me holding a piece of paper. He didn’t say anything. He just moved the paper closer to me and slightly cocked his head down.

Read the conclusion to Victor’s story on his website.