Archive for January 29th, 2007

Booze & costumes, BOOZE & COSTUMES!

There’s gotta be more to the New York Art-Mob scene these days than booze and costumes. Well, booze, costumes and shopping carts in this scenario.

The 2007 Idiotarod was this past Saturday, the 3rd annual of such events when NYC Artsters of every stripe and color tie themselves to shopping carts, get drunk as a skunk-punk in a funk at a whiskey distillerty and haul ass through the city.

Based ironically (Kids these days LOVE the irony!) on the Alaskan Iditarod: A 1,151 mile dogsled race through Alaska which -for over a hundred years- has been proudly subjecting sleddogs and their mushers to brutal conditions such as blizzards, white-outs, gale-force winds, and wind-chill temperatures that drop to about -100 degrees F! (Heck, Disney made a movie about it, so it must be a good thing!)

If that sounds idiotic, you a’int been to the Idiotarod yet! The Idiotarod transfers this race down to the pavement of Gotham for all of us to enjoy. The Siberian Huskies have been replaced with Binge Drinking Idiots, and the dogsled with the ultimate symbol of transport for the nomadic derelicts of the city:

The Shopping Cart!

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