Author: eugenia

Eugenia Chien has been eavesdropping on the 47, 49, or 1 lines since the mid-90's. She lives by the adage, "Anything can happen on Muni" (and also, "That's not water.")

Weekend Photos: Gone Fishin’

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Take Your Work More Seriouslly
Photo by Troy Holden

By sheer coincidence, both of your editors are starting the weekend early, namely by getting eff outta town. We both left this morning. But the robots that really run the site were nice enough to promise us they’d publish this post for us in our absence. (Note to robot: please also do my taxes and laundry by the time I get back. Thanks!)

If you’re a Muni Diaries regular, and haven’t already, please take a couple minutes this weekend to fill out our redesign survey. We’re about to tweak the way the site looks just a little, and we want your input. Doing so might get you a free drink.

Car 130 San Francisco
Photo by Flickr user Nick Fisher

Muni tracks
Photo by Flickr user apasciuto


Photo by Flickr user contrasts

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Hot tonight: Streets of SF Filmic Journeys at SFMOMA

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left hook
Photo by Flickr user captin_nod

Looking for something to do tonight? SFMOMA has a screening that features the streets of San Francisco. Bonus points from us if you spot Muni lines in the “filmic journey.”

Thank you, SFist.

Details:

Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys

Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA

Phyllis Wattis Theater
7:00 p.m.

Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions, artists take up San Francisco’s cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present offers evocative records of individual experiences of street life. These psychogeographic tours look at North Beach’s Broadway strip and the window reflections of a beat poet protagonist. We examine the Mission’s storefronts for evidence of larger neighborhood shifts, from gentrification in the 1980s to the current neighborhood use of the former site of a 19th-century amusement park.

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).

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Wanna Help Give Muni Diaries a New Look?

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We’re about to give Muni Diaries a new look, and we want to make sure you love it too! Please join the Muni Diaries testing pool and give us your two cents on the redesign survey.

Not to worry — it will be the same site, same idea (you tell us Muni stories, we share them with the world) — we just want to make the look of the site clean and lovely.

As a thank you, one lucky, randomly chosen survey respondent will receive a free drink ticket to the Make-Out Room for our spoken word event on April 23.

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SFWeekly Web Awards Tonight

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Best Viewed Large
Photo by Troy Holden of CaliberSF, winner of SF’s Best Art Blog in SFWeekly 2010 Web Awards

Thanks to all of you who voted for us for the SFWeekly Web Awards! Alas, we didn’t win, and had no idea we were going up against Golaiths like Twitter and Digg’s Kevin Rose, but we appreciate your votes! We saw how much you loved us in the leaked web tally page, so thank you, everyone!

A big congratulations is in order for our friends on the winners list: Broke Ass Stuart, Thomas Hawk, MissionMission, FunCheapSF (come see the man himself at our event later this month), Laughing Squid (who generously hosts us), and the wonderful CaliberSF.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…and don’t forget to send us your Muni stories and photos.

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Caltrain sleepcar?

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From astute reader Andrew, who snapped this on Friday, the day a pedestrian fatality caused delays in the a.m. commute:

Spotted on the south-bound 210 on Friday morning. Snoring away. Obviously she’s not too worked up about delays related to the hit pedestrian (which was referred to on Caltrain info boards as an “obstruction”).

Got a story from Caltrain, Muni, or AC Transit? You know the drill: Submit your story here.

Category: Caltrain

Body Found on Muni Bus After Shift Ended (w/updates)

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Update (12:00 p.m., April 5, 2010):

SF Weekly reports that the S.F. Medical Examiner has determined Christopher Feasel’s cause of death: cocaine and methadone overdose. Still, as the Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi points out, many questions remain.

Update (1:40 p.m.):

The ex-wife of the man found dead on the Muni bus told the SF Examiner that she had not seen him for over a decade and that addiction was the reason they separated, according to the Examiner’s update story. Feasel had a record of mostly petty crimes in San Francisco and San Mateo counties over the last 12 years, according to the Examiner. He did not have a fixed address at the time he was found on the 5-Fulton.

Read the rest of the Examiner’s update.

Original post:

My apologies for starting off your Monday morning this way: a man’s body was found on the 5-Fulton hours after the bus was parked in the Muni yard on Presidio and Bush, the SF Examiner reports.

More from the Examiner:

The deceased was identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as 37-year-old Christopher Feasel of San Francisco. Investigators have not determined the cause of death and police said the body showed no obvious signs of trauma.

Workers discovered Feasel around midnight Friday at the bus yard at Presidio Avenue and Bush Street. The bus had been in the lot since 6:30 p.m., police Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said.

Read the rest of the story.

We’ll keep you updated with more information as we find out.

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