Muni Diaries

Urban Ghost Stories at Muni Diaries Live!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

If you're not busy mingling with tweens at Outside Lands this weekend, make your way to Elbo Room Saturday for an evening of spooky bus stories with Muni Diaries Live!.  Muni Diaries' Eugenia Chien assures us it'll be their best one yet, including “a one-woman band who is also a mime, with her girlfriend who she met on Muni, who will be twirling batons and tap dancing.”  (Plus, Eugenia's parents are coming all the way from Taiwan for the event and will mark their first time ever in an American bar, so there'll be that in the crowd.)

Here's the line-up:

  • Broke-Ass Stuart, the king of stylish brokeitude
  • Hiya Swanhuyser, writer and San Francisco culture maven.
  • Jesse James, Muni Diaries Live audience favorite
  • Joyce Lee, spoken word wonderwoman
  • Mahsa Matin and Elyse Bova, with Beat Feet Orchestra

Get your tickets now!

In Which Herra Chinky Schools Muni Diaries.

— By Laura B |

Herra Chinky breaks it down:

I see no difference in judging the drunk midget who puked on the bus on the 5 Fulton as I do the drunk bimbo who puked outside of Bar None in the Marina. And I’m not saying that “Alison” is racist, because she’s clearly not. I just don’t see the need, which Muni Diaries is essentially founded on, to constantly point out the “otherness” of population of Muni riders. When we do so, we inherently put a distance between “them” and “us”. That attitude, while we might think we are more highly evolved and can see things with a critical eye, doesn’t help to make Muni any better, doesn’t help to add anything to spirit of San Francisco, and only gives those who already believe otherwise another reason to attack.  

OH SNAP. Also, TOUCHE, SIR!

(read the entire rant)