5.15.01

hehe, it seems that libraries are finding the most-frequently stolen book to be the bible. go figure – those gideons must be getting slack on the job or something. courtesy of the san francisco chronicle:

“In Salt Lake City, Carson City, and Jacksonville, Fla., copies of the Bible tend to walk out of public libraries and never return. Never mind that “Thou Shalt Not steal” stuff. In Fremont, it’s exam-preparation books to become a police officer. “Gives one pause,” a librarian in that East Bay city said. In Benicia, books about “the occult, car repair and sexuality” disappear regularly, while in Oakland, it’s anything about how to grow pot at home, pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases.”

my car is in the shop today, so i’m back to riding the muni, so…that means it’s time for the Muni Freak of the Week: today’s freak was this young man, about my age, walking down market st between 8th and 9th. he was carrying a bunch of flowers, all wrapped up in paper like he’d come straight from the flower market, and was wearing a crash helmet like the sort that serious skateboarders wear. in his right hand, he held a rope which was connected to what looked like giant, cylindrical stone, about two feet wide and maybe a foot in diameter. there was a hole drilled through the middle so that the rope came out each end of the column, and he was rolling it down the street like you might walk a dog. it couldn’t have been stone, because it didn’t look very heavy, but it otherwise looked just like one of the wheels of a flintstones vehicle.