Weekend photos
These lovely images were added to the BART Photos Flickr group this week, among others. Enjoy them, and your scorching-hot weekend.
Photo by greenkozi
Photo by W0nginat0r
Photo by moppet65535
Weekend Photo: Zoom!
Photo by Flickr user eviloar
Whoa, this week passed me by just like that. Enjoy the sunshine, and don’t forget: you still have time to submit your obit for your favorite dying lines.
Here at Muni Diaries headquarters (also known as my second-hand desk from IKEA), we are gearing up for our second spoken word party, “Muni Diaries Live! Under the Influence.” Email us to join the line up or, as always, if you want to share your Muni tales or photos.
Have a great weekend!
Oh, the things you’ll find (in BART’s lost-and-found)
Photo by Flickr user An Unreliable Witness
SF Weekly‘s Joe Eskenazi calls the BART transportation administrative specialist (read: lost-and-found clerk) to see what kinds of interesting things people leave on the train. He gets quite a list, including, not least of all, prosthetic limbs.
Be our 1,000th Twitter follower, win a Muni T-shirt! (update w/winner)
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.
BART ‘deal’
Photo by Flickr user wentzxxpete
From BART rider Amy:
I’m pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal on BART the other morning. This guy was measuring out some white powder sitting in his seat on BART and held up a baggie for this other guy that appeared to have pot in it. I considered it all very weird as BART cars have cameras in them.
No photo, unfortunately. It was around 9:40 or so. Late for work, per usual. The guy who appeared to be the buyer was wearing a puffy yellow sports jacket. I remember because I saw him walking into the 16th Street BART and thought, “what a ridiculous yellow puffy jacket.” He was sitting in one seat turned around backward talking to the other guy with the drugs who was in the seat behind him.
What have you seen on BART lately? Tell us: bartdiaries@gmail.com
Playboy bunnies and pleasure bots
The following came to our inbox from BART rider Mac:
For anyone who didn’t know (me included), you can follow dispatches from BART’s “virtual water cooler” on Twitter. (I took this photo on BART on Sunday.) The great thing about Twitter is how confusing it has been for so many people. And in tech-savvy Bay Area, it’s just not okay to admit to not getting it. Which is what makes this ad so great. It throws gasoline on the Twitter confusion fire. What do young girls dressed in feather boas and bunny ears or shiny silver robot bustiers (or is it a corset?) have to do with riding the subway? Awww, come on guys. It’s so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. It’s all about ball bearings these days. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads, and start tweeting. The Playboy bunnies and pleasure bots will be here any minute.