Idiotarod 2008

As of last night, Idiotarod was suppose to start at Ft. Greene Park. Then I got a text from my friend that the starting line was moved to Cherry and Market Street in Chinatown this morning. I never knew a Cherry or Market Street existed in Manhattan. Nonetheless where it was located. I’ve known about Idiotarod for a while, but have never attended. For god sakes, they did a whole epsiode about it on CSI:NY. So I had no idea what to expect. I got there around 11:15 am. And it was pretty quiet. But then more carts started to show up. We know hipsters love being photographed. Everything was pretty civilized until the Golden Girls and the Pesky Cafeteria Ladies broke out in a food fight.

Pesky Cafeteria Lady ducks behind her cart.

While another Pesky Cafeteria Lady slips.

Man, who would have thought the little old lady would get vicious.

Why me? I guess the Golden Girls won.

It was just an insane event. People were tossing food left and right. And this all happened before the race began. As they ran through Chinatown the pedestrians were just in awed of what was going on. When we got to the Manhattan Bridge one team rigged a rope to trip the next running cart. Fortunately, they had a scissor to cut the rope. It felt like there were no rules. The only rule was to make it to the finish line and it was okay to play dirty. It was just plain CRAZY! The funniest thing, was that the whole event started pretty much on time. What has this world come to.

January 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm · Mishaps & MisAdventures, Essentially NY· Permalink ·

New Year’s Weekend

It’s been quite an eventful weekend. There was a whole lot of walking around New York City. Everything kicked off with a holiday brunch with my closest friends on Saturday. Then I went off to run errands with my friend Kat who was in town from London. We started off in the Lower East Side and then to Rockefeller Center. I will never go down to midtown during the holidays ever again. It was a complete tourist pedestrian traffic. The worse part was they don’t move, and just stand there gawking at the windows and the tree. Luckily, the stop was short. And we quickly made our way to Williamsburg to drop off her stuff with her friend Georgie. He gave us the loopiest directions. We made at least 4 or 5 turns before, we reached his flat which was only located about less than 10 blocks from the subway stations. The festivities ended up in East Village, where I sadly departed.

So for New Year’s Eve, I mosey on over to the dinner held by Federico and friends. There was a whole lot of food, company, and generally good cheer. But I made it back to Brooklyn fairly unscathed.

It was off to Coney Island on New Year’s Day. A cup of coffee and Nathan’s hot dog in hand, I headed over to the beach to watch the Coney Island Polar Bear Club take their first swim in the Atlantic Ocean. Most people just ran in and then back to the beach. Everything was over in a matter of 30 minutes.

January 3, 2008 at 4:34 am · Mishaps & MisAdventures, Essentially NY· Permalink ·