Have Concept, Will Act Crazy

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This past weekend saw people come out in droves - and in costume - for the Idiotarod. The equation is roughly hipsters + shopping carts + clear day. When Gothamist spoke to someone about the event that involved pushing a shopping cart from Fulton Street to Tompkins Square Park, he said, "You know the subway party? And then the other subway party? And then the Chengwin thing? This made those events look sane. And it's the same people at every event!" And thank goodness for them, or else we wouldn't have these stirring images: rion has her trademark beautiful action shots (and congrats on the Bloggies nominations); and there's additional photo coverage from What I See (1, 2) untitled name (1, 2), and citying. And these low res-pictures are from Bluejake (1, 2), where the pictures are high-res and lovely.

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What I want to know is this . . . Critical Mass gets crap from the police for an upapproved parade. So, did any idiotarod folks get arrested for pushing shopping carts?

More photos of our Best of Show cart here.

More pictures to be found via a flickr set.

And, of course, the Idiotarod tag in flickr.

(side notes: It's funny. As of Sunday, there were hadly any pics on flickr. As of 2pm Monday there's been a veritable explosion. Feels like work bandwidth to me.)

I volunteered for idiotarod and had tons of fun.


I took a lot of photos and they appear
here.


by the way, jose, your c train cart ruled!

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I must agree: jose, the C train cart is a work of art!

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Since everyone else is doing it, here are some more pics: http://www.aboutmattlaw.com/p/?image=DSC_0258. As far as cops go, I didn't see any of them give anyone a problem (which is a good thing).

Thanks, volunteer and Jen. But most of the credit belongs to my neighbors Dan and Andrew. They designed and executed the project. I was just the navigator.

i can't remember the last time i was this sore, i can't even get out of my chair at work...and shame on the assclown that pelted me with the manican leg, my ankle is a balloon...like everyone else, i agree that the c train was hands down the best cart, well done

hey - i've got pics up too:
whatever-whenever.net/013005.html

MY MOM... MOM MOM... MY MOM SAID I COULD RUN THE RACE AS LONG AS I WORE MY HELMET.

ARE YOU LOOKING AT MY HEADGEAR!?

-team short bus 2005

Looks like fun, but perhaps next year you'll clean up after yourselves:

http://thevillager.com/vil_92/idiotstrash.html

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