Most people would call running for five and a half miles in a frog costume with a grocery cart full of canned food stupid. The racers in Saturday’s Chiditarod call it fun.
More than 100 teams gathered in the Near West Side for this annual food drive/race/pub crawl/event of mass chaos. Chicago’s arm of the Burning Man collective coordinates the race.
“We try to keep in mind that while we’re having fun, we can also do good for the community,” says Lisa Balogh, who volunteered her DJ skills for the event.
While organizers are still tabulating the totals for this year’s haul of canned goods, last year’s event gathered more than two tons of non-perishable food items.
Posted by deathmobile on March 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
My wife stole your eggs!
hahahahahahaaaa!
Posted by Midas Welby on March 13th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I think she did just call event participants stupid. I don’t think the event is stupid at all and here’s why:
In this tough wildly changing economy, your fine organization managed to successfully change the focus from an increasingly harder to relate to dollar amount of charity collected, to a more accurately relateable measure of charity, as in last year’s more than two tons of non-perishable food items.
Thank you.
Posted by Emerald on March 13th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
No, she’s calling anyone who doesn’t think the Chiditarod is fun stupid.
Posted by Phil Fox on March 26th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Your wife totally stole our eggs Deathmobile.
>.<
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Wait a minute… did you just call us stupid?
Les Freedom Frogs
My wife stole your eggs!
hahahahahahaaaa!
I think she did just call event participants stupid. I don’t think the event is stupid at all and here’s why:
In this tough wildly changing economy, your fine organization managed to successfully change the focus from an increasingly harder to relate to dollar amount of charity collected, to a more accurately relateable measure of charity, as in last year’s more than two tons of non-perishable food items.
Thank you.
No, she’s calling anyone who doesn’t think the Chiditarod is fun stupid.
Your wife totally stole our eggs Deathmobile.
>.<