Posts Tagged weird

Keep Austin Weird

Hi Minnesotans. I’m a former Twin Cities resident now living in Austin, TX. While riding the Capital Metro 17 through downtown Austin an “interesting” character boarded with a guitar and sat in the back row. That part of the bus is elevated, creating sort of a stage. He proceeded to [...]


A rich non-relationship

On March 1, I turned in my paid parking pass in the IDS Center ramp and exchanged it for a bus pass. It seemed like the right thing to do on a few levels; it saves my employer a little extra money each month and we are watching expenses like everyone else, I live close [...]


The Man and the Mousetrap

He sat down on the bus seat right in front of me, while I was trying to read about how each of us individually creates meaning from the complex tapestry of the American city. I was sitting there with my nose in the book when all of a sudden this young kid (there was a [...]


Big Mac Attack

So I got picked up on 34th street and there werent that many people on the bus and everything is going as it normally would. Then all of the sudden the bus driver pulls over the bus over right on hennepin in between lake and lagoon (which is odd because the bus never stops [...]


Purse dogs want a good view too

I got on the bus yesterday to see a woman with a rather large purse sitting about halfway to the back. Then her purse started moving. Turns out she had a very small dog in the purse. After further observation I saw that this very small purse-dog was wearing a dog-sized down coat, complete with [...]