Breakfast Links: No Pants 2k8, Parkour & Darwin Awards
Monday? Art? Snow??
Well we warned you it was coming but Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Day 2008 has come and gone. Gothamist has the 411 and sgoralnick has the photos. Anyone here happen to stumble upon it?
A real man, though, wouldn’t have a no pants subway ride… they’d do a no pants Parkour run! Such a man might be Mark Toorock, an american Parkourista - here’s a video of him talking about it from the Washington Post - a production value notch over all those vids on the youtube. Granted, though, there isn’t much defying of death - the interesting thing is that his gym, Primal Fitness, offers Parkour and Crossfit training. If that gym was in the NYC, I’d prolly go and have a visit - I like that kinda purposeful fitness.
And while some may consider some of the upper echelons of Parkour derring do candidates for the Darwin awards, I don’t…. but all will be glad to know that the 2007 Darwin Awards have just been announced - you know you can’t not read Coitus Interruptus, The Enema Within and Stop. Look. Listen... Go have a look, it’s good for you, although there does seem to be some ranking problem as there’s a couple up there having only received 8 or 10 votes…
UPDATE: MacWorld’s just 1 day away and the rumor mills are grinding faster than ever. This one’s pretty neat - 9 to 5 Mac is suggesting the MacBook Air is coming, with some Adium log entries dated to precede that “There’s something in the air” poster… Oh SNAP.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I did see a guy who took his pants off!!!! I can’t believe my little head didn’t put it together! well… he was the only one on my train doing it, and I kept thinking “maybe his pants are wet?”
January 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Only one guy? I give 50/50 odds that it was part of the event vs. you got an eyeful of a pervert….
;)
January 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Damn it I thought it was wear an extra pair of pants day. And Parkour purposeful fitness? Maybe fun fitness or enjoyable fitness but I’m not sure of it’s purpose. (maybe for doctors)
January 14th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Heh, purposeful in that you are doing something that isn’t, more or less, a reduction of action to focus on one specific muscle group. Eh, it’s all arbitrary, but I like that kinda stuff.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I didn’t witness No Pants 2k8, being a Brooklyn homebody, but my MOTHER happened to be in Union Square at the right time. She called and asked what was up with all the underwear-sporting folks, and I was able to help her out.
I have to say, though, that without the Pants Sellers portion of the prank, a lot of the humor is lost. From the reports on their website it sounds like the last time they actually had someone collect the pants and then “sell” them back a lot of people ended up losing their pants(!). No Pants is a victim of its own success.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:26 am
LOL, that’s an awesome conversation to have with your mother. As for goodness, I agree it’s no dancing in the windows of DSW and co, but still, trains full of pantsless people is funny. I mean, No Pants is comedy! Selling people their pants back would have been the cherry on the icing - I guess, though, losing your pants would be very, very sad.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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