Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Twice a year, we take Muni Diaries out of the interwebs and into real life at Muni Diaries Live. If those stories, told to a packed crowd at the Elbo Room last Saturday are any indication, Muni is still the spot to mine storytelling gold.
Comedian Tirumari Jothi, whose tale of an out-of-this-world conversation (rings of Saturn included) had the crowd in stitches. You can see him this Friday, Nov. 10th, and the Comix Experience Outpost on Ocean Avenue.
So you decide to take a visiting friend on her first Muni ride, promising that nothing will go wrong. And Muni is basically like…”LOL.”
In this week’s podcast, storyteller and reigning Muni Haiku champion Baruch Porras-Hernandez shares his story of what happened after his innocent promise to a friend. You can see him at Muni Diaries Live this Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Elbo Room. Tickets are at munidiarieslive18.eventbrite.com.
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If you like what you’ve heard on the Muni Diaries podcast, please share and rate it on iTunes so other people can find it, too. And we hope to see you this Saturday at the Elbo Room to watch Baruch go head-to-head with new challenger, Alexandria Love!
Three poets battled in a dark alley in the Mission for the right to go head-to-head with the current Muni Haiku Battle champion, Baruch Porras-Hernandez. And that battle was fierce! Tirumari Jothi, Chris Collision, and Alexandria Love busted out their best 5-7-5 poetry about public transit, and our audience judges chose Alexandria Love as our next challenger!
You can see Alexandria’s fight for the haiku crown at the next Muni Diaries Live Saturday, Nov. 4, and the Elbo Room. Tickets are on sale now, so grab one before they are all gone.
To tide you over between now and the show, here are some of the best Muni haikus from Tirumari Jothi:
Blowjob in car; that’s
Road head, right? So then, handjob on
MUNI; a track jack
I get on the train
One seat is open, but wait
Is that…human shit?
(May we advice that you issue a friendly warning like this?)
One more:
One time, I threw up
In my mouth, cuz I was hung-
over. I swallowed.
From challenger Chris Collision of I Don’t Even Own a Television:
On my way to work.
Fuck, dude, I’m wearing headphones!
Stop. Talking. To me.
One more from Chris:
I know you feel me.
The problem is, I smell you.
Standing room only.
And one from our Facebook page by Joy Morgenstern:
Manspreader on left
Negligent bather on right
Welcome to Muni
Be there for the Alexandria vs. Baruch showdown, and hear more only-in-SF stories at the show next Saturday.
Saturday, Nov 4, 2017
Doors: 6 p.m., show: 7 p.m.
Elbo Room (Tickets)
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St. stations
Photo by @hoobyjuice
What happens on the last train doesn’t always stay on the last train.
In this episode of our podcast, Na’amen Gobert Tilahun shares what happened no one fateful blurry night he jumped on a Metro, and about the importance of good friends who will stand up for one another no matter what.
Na’amen is a writer whose craft spans multiple genres. The followup to his 2016 novel, The Root, is The Tree, which is coming out later this year. Learn more about him at naamentilahun.com.
If you haven’t subscribed to our podcast, we’d love if you lent us your ears! Here’s Na’amen:
P.S. Bonus late-night train story that might tickle your fancy: an impromptu disco dance party on the last BART train. Join us on Instagram for more only-in-SF goodness.
Photo credit: Right Angle Images
This 47-Van Ness:
a) is taking its Catbus aspirations way too far.
b) finally found a way to react to being San Francisco’s punching bag day in and day out.
Punk rock cat was more punk rock than all y’all, and nothing was cooler than Sunglass cat’s medically necessary duds, but we never quite expected one of our transit chariots to actually become a cat.
Thanks for the tip, @jchrthomas.
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Subway riders are so hard to impress, especially these New York City folks who happened upon a passenger and his rather exotic bird.
Matthew Hayes (@chayesmatthew) tweets:
Midday on the @NYCTSubway. Guy walks onto a train with this.
A fine peacock in all its majesty, with that unmistakable iridescent tail and looking like it knows it’s prettier than everyone else. But judging from the faces of the fellow passengers, it’s just another Tuesday. What would it take to get their attention? A punk rock cat? Bunny in a bonnet? Yoda? We on the best coast have those and more.
Thanks to Amy Y. at Capp Street Crap for the tip.
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