The “Middle” “Man” on Muni
As @KelseyAvers says, “Too cute. The kid in the middle kept trying to push his brother and sister off of him.”
Counting Down 100 Days, 100 Muni Stories
Muni turns 100 this year, and we want to celebrate it with your Muni stories in our “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” project! You might remember the cool prize for this story drive: Submit a Muni story in the next 100 days and a portion of your story can end up on a bus ad.
For 100 days this summer, you can go our 100 Muni Stories page to see new stories in the running for getting their own advertisement inside the bus. We’ve combed through your submissions and tweets, plus some that we think deserve some props. At the end of the 100 days, we’ll be choosing quotes from the best of the best to appear on ads inside all Muni buses.
Today’s “100 Muni Stories” submission comes from David Gray, who remembers the 55-Sacramento and how its passengers had to help the bus get up steep San Francisco hills.
We’re still taking submissions for the centennial birthday celebration, so send your stories our way and remember to tag it #100MuniStories.
Muni Diaries “100 Days, 100 Muni Stories” graphic design is by Lisa Wong Jackson. Check her out at Good on Paper.
Bay to Breakers Best Transit Costume
Photo by Octoferret
Here is a gallery of our awesome party goers doing their best poses — wearing the Clipper Card and Fast Pass costumes, natch — in the Orange Photography photobooth.
Next year’s Bay to Breakers: let’s be costume twins?
Bay to Breakers Caltrain Rave
Newest Muni Ad Spoof: Men’s Whorehouse
Ouch.
Earlier, a MissionMission contributor said he saw two guys putting up these ads on the 49 (“one of them had a pretty sweet mustache”).
So far in the series of Muni adbusters, we’ve got a special variety Tums, the other name for Tartine, and a dig on Du Beers.
I can’t quite tell why Men’s Warehouse was picked as a target for the spoof. Personally I think this spoof of a men’s fragrance is pretty on point.
Witness: I Saw The Muni Adbusters
Photo from @dougrobbin
From MissionMission:
I had the pleasure of watching one of the new fake bus ads go up today. I was on the 49 when two young males boarded. One mentioned concernedly to the other that there was no one driving the bus. I informed them that the driver was behind the bus fixing the wires, which had fallen off the lines as the bus turned off 16th onto Mission.
But alas, no photos of the two guys. Just as well, because that would be like finding out that Santa Claus isn’t real, right? You can read the rest of his account on MissionMission, including a description of the guys.
For review, we have a special variety Tums, the unfortunate nickname for Tartine, and an inexplicable spoof of Du Beers. The dig on Marines is also clever but perhaps not from the same culprit?
What’s next?