For Sale Tonight: Muni Tales, Crack, and Bacon

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Come over to the dark side, my dears, we have candy, Muni tales, crack, booze, and bacon.

No, really, we do.

For our open mic tonight at the Elbo Room, Nosh This will be selling his delicious “Bacon Crack” — chocolate-dipped bacon butter toffee with almonds, and a bunch of other devilish treats (balsamic vinegar caramels, anyone?)

You can also get the newest batch of Fast Pass Clipper Card holders made especially for Muni Diaries by Heathered.

All that and you get to hear stories from your favorite past performers and special guest Anna Conda, who’ll be announcing the winner of our Google Places contest, and reading that lucky duck’s Muni review!

See you at the show!

Details:
Muni Diaries Reunion/Open Mic Show
$5, First Drink Free courtesy of Google Places!
Tonight, Wednesday Sept. 28. Signup starts at 6:30 p.m., show 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St. (between 17th and 18th Street). J, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, BART

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Starring Tonight: Anna Conda and Your Muni Review

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Can you outwit your fellow Muni riders right onto Anna Conda’s lips? I hope you can. Because there are only a few hours left in our Google Places Muni Review contest. The first place review will be read on stage tomorrow night at the first Muni Diaries Reunion Show by our special guest: Anna Conda! Be there at 7 p.m. at the Elbo Room (Valencia and 17th) to hear all about it.

The first place review also gets a $100 gift certificate to Hog and Rocks. Mmm. Delicious ham and oysters. We also have four more $50 cash prizes to give away for your Google Places Muni review, so get to it!

It’s very easy:
1. Go to the SFMTA page on Google Places.
2. Click Write a Review.
3. Write your most entertaining take on a Muni line or on Muni in general. (You can’t select a Muni line on Google Places, so simply write in the review which line you’re referring to).
4. Add the #MuniDiaries hashtag at the end of your review.
5. Click Submit.

There. Fame, oysters, and money may soon be yours.

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Muni to test three-car Metro trains

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West Portal Muni
Photo by Danny Howard

Add this to the “OMG FINALLY” files. Local news outlets have reported recently on Muni’s attempts to speed up underground and tunnel service. How? By running three-car trains through parts of its Metro system.

Muni Metro trains are unusually short compared to other subways, limited to one or two cars so they won’t block traffic as they crawl along surface streets after emerging from the tunnel. Under the new plan, [director of transit operations for Muni, John] Haley said that one- and two-car trains would be hitched together as they enter the subway at the West Portal or Embarcadero stations during rush hour — and disconnected once again when they popped out. /The Bay Citizen

As SF Appeal‘s April Siese points out:

It’s unclear from the BC article exactly why hooking up multiple trains would make things go faster — though they report that “delays on just one line can grind the whole system to a halt,” it seems like delays on a big, long, hooked up train will be just as system-clogging.

We’d love to hear what you think of this idea. Will joining trains for their journey underground help to speed up the chronically sluggish Muni Metro system?

Read more at The Bay Citizen and SF Appeal.

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A lightsaber could come in handy on Muni

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Image courtesy Wired.com

In advance of George Lucas’ latest tinkering (the upcoming release of Star Wars movies on Blu-ray), Japanese transportation officials have turned the grab bars on Tokyo subways into lightsabers. Nerds can finally hold onto something other than … well, I’ll stop there.

According to Wired.com:

Using stickers with built-in buttons and LED lights, the promo isn’t only smart, it’s also a great opportunity for stealing Star Wars memorabilia. I imagine that these stick-in ’sabers are going to disappear very quickly indeed.

You might be thinking, ‘Tokyo would do something this cool.’ The best makeover San Francisco transit vehicles have received lately is being wrapped in blue for Dell Computer. Yawn.

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This Wednesday, Muni Diaries Reunion Show/Open Mic!

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Mark your calendars, clear away all the other appointments, because this Wednesday is our first reunion show/open mic at the Elbo Room! Your favorite past performers will be back on stage telling Muni stories that they didn’t get to share the first time around. And you too can get up on stage and win $50 by telling your own story!

Our special guest is the one and only Anna Conda, who will read the winning Muni review on Google Places! If you haven’t written your wittiest review, you better start right now.

Remember Vero Majano, who brought the house down with a story about being one of the kids in the back of the bus? Remember Joyce Lee and her story about riding Muni with her perfectly coiffed mom? You’ll see Vero, Joyce, and many other Muni Diaries Live favorites this Wednesday night.

Remember: this time we’re having our show at the Elbo Room. Doors 6:30 p.m, show 7 p.m.. We’ll see you there!

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