Holiday Photos: On the night train

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Market Street's vehicles and wires converge on the Ferry Terminal
Photo by FlickeringAbility

Yeah, we found it hard to work this week, too. But here’s a good Thanksgiving appetizer for you: Check out the Muni Diaries Etsy store beginning at midnight Friday (the minute after 11:59 p.m. Thursday, FYI) for a very special deal we’ve set up for you: We’ll be selling our Fast Past shirts at a 20 percent discount through this weekend!

Meanwhile, it’s been a slow half-week in the world of Muni news:

  • S.F. solves funding quandary for Central Subway (SFGate)
  • But! Subway funding plan not firm (says the hella slow-loading, new-look SF Examiner site)

By the time this post goes live, many of you will be well on your way to wherever you’re going. We wish you well, and hope to see you back next week, if not sooner. Stay safe, unfrozen, happy, and humble. And enjoy these rad photos.

Calling like a fading memory
Photo by Brandon Doran

F Market
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch

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Photo by angryf

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The Great Muni Shelter Giveaway (Update)

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Photo by Alyssa Jones

(Update) Vote for who gets to take this Muni shelter home! Poll closes at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 29. Winner will be announced at the I Live Here:SF closing reception on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 5-7 p.m. at SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street.

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You know that awesome Muni shelter that we’ve been talking about at SOMArts? The one that you’ve been covering with your stories and cartoon captions?

Well, it can be yours. Yes, seriously.

We are having perhaps our biggest give-away ever. The truth is that the Muni shelter at SOMArts needs a home in less than two weeks. And if you can haul it, it’s yours.

Think of the possibilities: BBQ under a real bus stop in your backyard. Bartend on the playa under a bonafide 30-Stockton bus stop. Dine al fresco on your front lawn, protected from the elements under the bus shelter. The shelter comes with a two-sided advertising space that actually works, and you can put anything you want in these huge light boxes. Currently photos of I Live Here:SF subjects Chloe and myself are in the advertising space.

Send us an email if you are interested in the bus shelter. But do it soon — we have until Dec. 2 to find the Muni shelter a new home.


Photo by Dan McKinley

2010.11.10 Wednesday
Photo by annieinseattle

Muni shelter at SOMArts

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‘We can do this’ on the N-Judah

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Derek Powazek has almost always lived on the N-Judah line in the many years he has lived in San Francisco. And he saw an amazing feat of spontaneous public unity when the N rumbled by one day. In this video from Muni Diaries Live at the Make-Out Room a few weeks ago, Derek tells that story. Derek is the editor of Fray, the magazine of true stories and original art.

P.S. We know you’re not really working this week, so adjust the volume, put on the headphones, and enjoy Derek’s hilarious and possibly uplifting tale.

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Time Running Out to Cover This Muni Shelter with Stories

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Muni shelter at SOMArts

You have three days left to take over this 30-Stockton Muni shelter at SOMArts with your witty stories. What are you waiting for?

You might already know that we scored a real Muni bus shelter for Julie Michelle’s I Live Here:SF exhibit at SOMArts this month, thanks to the generosity of the SFMTA. You can see photos of the bus shelter being delivered over at I Know Alyssa Jones.

On the bus shelter, we’ve provided some blank story cards so you can write your own Muni story and post it (yes, on real paper!). You can also caption some fun Muni cartoons by Michael Capozzola, who draws “Surveillance Caricatures” in the San Francisco Chronicle’s 96 Hours section.

We’ll be posting some of the stories and cartoon captions from the gallery here on Muni Diaries. I already saw some funny anecdotes and captions when I was at SOMArts this Saturday. So get over to the exhibit for Julie Michelle’s amazing photography, Chris Rusak‘s text-based art, and Rick Prelinger‘s Lost Landscapes film, and partake on a little Muni fun.

SOMArts (934 Brannan between 8th and 9th Streets) will be open this Tuesday and Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m., and then Tuesday, Nov. 30, for the closing night reception.

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Muni bus shelter videogames

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Roshan alerted us to this post on Funcheap SF about a Yahoo-sponsored “bus stop derby.” Here’s Johnny FC’s details:

Resembling giant iPhones (but 20x the size), these 72″ touch screens have been installed at bus stops in 20 different neighborhoods so that bored commuters waiting [for] the bus can play games and earn points for their neighborhood. Users choose a neighborhood to represent and play one of four short video games either solo or live head-to-head against other bus shelters.

And the best part?

At the end of the two-month derby (which ends January 28, 2011) the neighborhood with the most points earns a free concert with OK Go at a local [sic] avenue.

For more details and an active scoreboard, check out Yahoo’s Bus Stop Derby page. They’ve also got a map of participating bus stop shelters.

We expect nothing short of a flurry of reports on your game-playing prowess. We also welcome your comments of power outages, delays, urination, and other Muni-rific goings on in and around the games.

Play hard!

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