Brian L. Colbert

Archive for November, 2009

I live in the heart of San Francisco and don’t own a car.  So, I’m always walking and frequently taking Muni for longer jaunts around the city.  Muni is crazy, I mean seriously crazy. There usually seems be seems a screaming lunatic with a slight air of menace on every bus that crossing Market street.    I tell people about this situation and tend they stare at me like I’m crazy, particularly people that don’t live in SF.  How could a place with Fisherman’s Wharf, Union Square and Michael Mina  have a bus system that frequently seems to be a toxic brew of Rollerball, Ultimate Fighting and an insane asylum.  So I’m pained that I missed the recent hearing on Muni.

I don’t regularly ride the “worst” bus lines mentioned in the article, so I can’t imagine what the bedlam quotient is  on those particular lines.  But, I have seen this video taken on Muni.

The Minimalist – Things to Prepare Before the Turkey Goes in the Oven – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/5t7IJz

Last week I was wandering down from Nob Hill to downtown San Francisco.  About a block from City Hall there was a particularly crazy, “crazy guy.”  He had a metal pole and seemed to be harassing a dog and its owner.  A few blocks later I passed by a nifty mural on Market.  I even stopped to give the fist of power to the artist.  Unfortunately, a few hours later the artist was attacked while working on the mural.  I don’t understand the lack of will to bring some order and semblance of safety to that part of the city.

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I really need 26 hours today.

Outside at Ella’s where the line is simply too long.