Just added: Food Carts at Wednesday Happy Hour with Muni Diaries

Pork Skewer from Sataysfied at Precita Park
Photo by Gary Soup

Look, it’s happiness on a bamboo skewer! And we get to chow down on this tomorrow!

We thought tomorrow’s Muni Diaries Happy Hour at SOMArts was already pretty awesome, what with the Muni shelter under which you’ll have several ways to record your Muni memories and memorabilia, the ample space of SOMArts that’s currently filled with Julie Michelle’s amazing i live here:SF photos and stories, and beer and wine provided by the gallery for low, low prices. But it gets better.

That’s because we’ve secured three great San Francisco food carts that will bless us with their delicious wares tomorrow. Sataysfied, Casey’s Pizza, and Nosh This will be on hand to help sop up the booze you drink as you loosen up to tell Muni stories. Or, you know, just to feed you dinner.

Details:
Happy Hours with Muni Diaries and I Live Here:SF
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street (cross street is 8th Street)
Take Muni there: 12, 19, 27, 47.

Bring your neighbors! Bring your friends! Bring that old guy you see around the hood who told you about riding Muni back in th 1960s!

A Note About Our Sponsored Posts

Starting next week, you’ll see certain posts on Muni Diaries, such as our Fashion Friday posts, that are marked with this little “Sponsored Post” red icon:

These posts are supported by our local sponsors, such as Secession Art and Design and Mobile Spinach. In the 2.5 years that we have been running Muni Diaries, you haven’t seen any advertisements, but we’re starting to experiment with sponsored posts and possibly some advertisements on the sidebar of our site in the near future.

Having ads and sponsored posts might be standard fare for most of the sites that you read. But because Muni Diaries is built on your stories and our common love for our city, we thought it is only appropriate that we invite your opinion:

What do you think of advertisements on Muni Diaries, and what is your threshold on seeing ads on the site?

Earlier this year, I talked to some journalism students at San Francisco State University about how we started Muni Diaries. One of the first questions from the students was this: “Who is your staff, and where does the money come from?” This was funny to us because the short answer was that there was no money that came from anywhere…yet.

Muni Diaries is run by two humble people from our living rooms when we get home from our 9-5. Our website is generously hosted by Laughing Squid, and graphic and site design donated thus far by Suzanne Lagasa and Yen Pai. But we would like to pay our designers, hire a part time web administrator, and invest in other site features that make Muni Diaries a welcome place to share your transit stories. And we’d like to enlist local sponsors to help us with expenses as small as printing event programs and as large as hiring a website designer and beyond.

With sponsored posts and advertisements, we intend to bring you the same level of fun, entertaining content that you’ve seen on Muni Diaries so far, keeping all our content relevant to you and life on Muni. So if you’ve got something to say — whether it’s about sponsored posts, the business of online media, or our favorite: that hilarious thing that happened to you on the bus today — tell us in the comments or email us any time.

Weekend Photos: So Unreal

F line rolls on fog
Photo by Ethan O’Brien

It’s week two of going without the colorful paper version of your type “A” Fast Pass. How are you faring?

In Muni news this week:

  • SFMTA Considers Service Restoration, Counts on Labor Savings (Streetsblog SF)
  • Plan Would Improve Sidewalk Conditions for N-Judah Riders in Cole Valley (Streetsblog SF)
  • Clipper Card has some worried about privacy issues (SF Examiner)
  • Giants celebration gave Muni 240,000 extra riders (BCN via Examiner)
  • SF Prop. G backers call it mandate to reform Muni (SFGate)
  • Muni addressing recent spate of hangups (SF Examiner)
  • Clipper Card’s Dirty Little Secret (Hint: It Can “Go Negative”) (Streetsblog SF)

San Francisco Public Press has a new print edition out, available for $2. There is an ” extensive report on Muni’s elusive quest for on-time service,” which we haven’t read because we are chained to our laptops. But if you are so lucky as to see the outside world today and breathe some non-cubicle air, you can buy the print issue.

These photos on Flickr show a very surreal side of Muni. Enjoy the photos, pen us in for the happy hours next Wednesday, and have a great weekend!


Photo by Dan McKinley at the I Live Here:SF SOMArts exhibit

No. 1059 in the rain
Photo by jasontakesphotos

It's so HOT in San Francisco right now! People using the back of the Muni shelters for shade.
Photo by Anthony Brown

Onlookers - 41/52
Photo by Jonathan Fleming

Fashion Friday, Secession Style


Photo by Kelly Nicolaisen

Who’s stylin’ on your bus? We’re a week away from our first Fashion Friday, where we invite you to show us photos of fashionable people on and around the bus. Our first Fashion Friday sponsor is Secession Arts and Design, where you’ll find mixed-media art, beautiful clothes, and jewelry. It’s also where you’ll find transit-themed baby onesies and shirts for adults and toddlers.

The submission deadline for the first Fashion Friday will be Thursday, Nov. 18. We’re looking for photos of your fellow Muni riders who have an inspiring style.

The winner of Fashion Friday will receive a gift certificate to Secession Art and Design. You can use the gift certificate for art, jewelry, or, say, dresses by Field Day made from vintage sheets (on Lea, below, right), or custom draped dresses by Rachel Znerold (on Lyz, below, left).

We look forward to your photos! Send them to muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com.

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