Tue, 02 Sep 2008
RIP Don LaFontaine
Awww man, Don LaFontaine died. I loved that guy. I'm always trying to imitate him. "I would like a can of peas, please!" 02 Sep 13:19 | /news | 0 comment(s)
New Muni Record
I guess school's back in session- or the new people have started their jobs downtown as the bus has been more full these days. Last Wednesday there was this dude sitting in front of me who was all fidgity. He kept opening and closing an envelope that had citizenship papers/instructions in it. I figured he was trying to memorize an address, but wasn't doing a great job. He kept looking around and it was making me nervous (not to mention the woman next to him). As the bus was crossing Polk, he spazzed out and grabbed the cord to signal a stop. But as it was the express bus, I giggled inside. Even though I'm an a-hole, I was going to tell him that there was no stop for him and let him down easy. . . but no, spaz boy JUMPED up (the bus was full btw) and he forced his way to the door. When he forced his way to the door, he elbowed the hottie I'd been staring at in the head. She even told him that there wasn't a stop and to not hit her in the head. But I think there was a language issue. I think I'm becoming conservative because I think there should be a new section of the citizenship test. I don't care if you know who the 14th president (Franklin Pierce) was, but you should know 1) what the difference is between a regular and express bus is and more importantly 2) don't elbow hot chicks in the head! The sad thing is that afterwards, I thought, weird, that was the 2nd day in a row where someone tried to get off early and didn't realize it was an express. And then Friday I thought (again after someone else tried to get off and was pulling that cord like there was no tomorrow) "weird, that's 4 days in a row, that's never happened before".... So you know what? It happened AGAIN today. That's a new record! And today it wasn't just one person, it was two! The first one was a goober who thought there was one more stop after Fillmore (that's the "usual"). The second was a cute girl in a halter top dress (yum) in front of me who was desperate to get off the bus around Hyde. At least people tried to warn the girl, but she wouldn't take off her headphones so she didn't understand what was going on. But this rash of "jumpers" must end soon . . . 02 Sep 12:34 | /rants_and_raves | 1 comment(s)
Last Season for Mackey
I caught up just in time with all of the past seasons of The Shield. Season 7 starts on Tuesday and the always good Tim Goodman has an article about the upcoming season. I wish the Chron's other writers were as consistently good as Goodman's TV industry articles . . . . 02 Sep 12:08 | /links | 0 comment(s)
