No Pants! Light Rail Ride 2010

Are you looking for something to do today?

Why not take a ride on the new light rail through Seattle.

Without pants.

This is from the group facebook page:

Every January, Improv Everywhere in New York stages their annual "No Pants! Subway Ride." Cities around the globe participate.

This year, Emerald City Improv in Seattle invites you to participate in our first annual "No Pants! Light Rail Ride." This event will occur SUNDAY, JANUARY 10th, from 12:00- 3:00

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

1) Willing to take pants off on light rail
2) Able to keep a straight face about it
3) Wear non-offensive underwear
4) Pay your fare

And as of this morning, there were 944 committed "no pants" people.

I hear Brandon is going to be doing this today on the Spokane Transit buses. Should make for an interesting day through Spokane.

Here's the annual event in New York from last year.

Ties are dumb

Today I have to travel to Brandon's favorite city outside of Missoula, Montana for a wedding. I am of course talking about the City of Three. Or, the Tri-Cities.

And I even have to wear a tie!

Ties are lame. I don't know what moron thought they were a good idea.

Tie Inventor: "Hey! You know what we should make guys wear?"
Wife: "What's that honey?"
Tie Guy: "I think guys should wear a device around their neck. Like a rope around their neck!"
Wife: "Oh honey! You'll look so sexy!"

Which leads me to my next point about ties, guys don't like them. But girls do. So if girls like them so much make them wear it!

I've been practicing my knot tying lately. So I think I will show up to the wedding with my tie around my neck in like a square knot, or better yet a bowline! Oh wait, how about a noose? Too soon. Yeah, probably.

But I do really not like ties. They are evil creatures.

So then I say to myself, you know what would make wearing a tie less stinky! A cool design on the tie! Like a polar bear driving a car! Or better yet a squirrel juggling acorns!!!

Needless to say my date (a.k.a. my fiance) said no.

Anyway, it is Saturday. And Saturday's are fun. Minus having to wear a tie.

Naked pole vaulter runs through the streets

I found this on Comcast Sports. Someone, give him clothes!

A French pole vaulting champion ran naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal.

Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, was sponsored by Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed.

"It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It's the crisis," he wrote on his Web site.

Many athletes have reported difficulties obtaining corporate sponsorship as companies cut costs because of the global economic downturn.

In his video, Mesnil runs with his pole as if preparing for a vault at tourist spots like Montmartre and the Pont des Arts across the River Seine. A black square has been added to the footage to cover his groin area.

The video has succeeded in drawing attention to Mesnil's plight, at least in France. It was broadcast on prime-time state television news bulletins.

Here's the video: