Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 8/16/03: MUNI bus, San Francisco, early 1990s.

Jacob Lawrence, "Bus," 1941 — Jacob Lawrence, *Bus* (1941)

August 16, 2003:

MUNI bus, San Francisco, early 1990s.

Exit onto downtown sidewalks packed and flowing with morning commuters. In front of you a hand-painted advertisement for a local radio station covers the entire rear end of a parked bus with a single giant face which you instantly recognize, stopping you dead in your shoes.

Your former bandmate. Now a big star. Well: big enough to cover the ass of a MUNI bus, anyway.

You laugh 'til you cry. He always was kinda big-headed.