The World’s Largest Urban Adventure Series will turn the Big Apple in to a giant obstacle course as teams of two navigate their way around competing in physical, mental and humorous challenges. The NYC event promises to be a full day of laughter, adventure and discovering the diversity and character of New York City.
Whether searching Soho, exploring Central Park or traveling the largest city in the U.S. on public transit, participants will be pushing their comfort zones in a fun, adventurous way. You need to be a part of it, New York City Chase is the final leg of the U.S. Series so get your partner and sign up today. Limited space available. The winners will advance to our National Championship for a chance to represent the US in the World Championship in Morocco.
How long do you think it took me to sign Karen and I up for City Chase after a friend at work sent around the information?
If you guessed “less than 3 minutes” you’d be right. Everyone knows that Karen and I enjoy competition (Subway Wars, anyone?) and have also been know to enjoy a spot of reality television here and there so you can imagine my excitement at reading about this 1 day mental + physical + squeamishness (?) challenge that was going to take place right here in New York City.
The race costs $190 per team and there are 15 events of which your team has to complete 10 in order to win. Karen’s already getting her baby on and calling that we’re going to skip any of the “eat something gross” challenges. Meanwhile, I want to practice by digging up earthworms in the backyard and feeding them to each other.
The other excellent part is that they fully encourage the use of mobile technology as well as remote team members that can act as a research dept. for you while you’re running around the city. On that note, I have the honor of being able to announce that our good friend (some might call him an Internet master) Micah is going to be a pivotal member of Team Kane Street during the challenge. Our hope is to get him an unmarked van he can sit in as he follows us around from challenge to challenge but we may have to settle for him (and his assistant Carmen) setting up Command Central at his place in Park Slope.
Anyway, this is what we’re going to be doing on Saturday, September 13th and so should you! Grab a partner and go get signed up !
There’s something really clever about this. (Boing Boing)
this bubblegum machine in the East Village that has been savvily modded to dispense ideas for fifty cents apiece, each absolutely guaranteed to be actionable or your money back. Buy a moose, it might tell you, or Invent a Jump-To-Conclusions mat! Start a fire! Get a circumcision! Kidnap your ex-girlfriend! Shave a chicken! Breed a budgie with a mule! The possibilities are endless.
Last weekend I met up with my three college roommates, Marisa, Lindsey and Julie, in Chicago. Aside from the occasional wedding, this is the first time we have all gotten to spend a full weekend together since 2002. Here we are eight years after graduation in Chicago. Old ladies, with dogs, and kids and jobs that don’t allow you to skip out for a fishbowl of beer in the middle of the afternoon.
And here we are in Athens, Ohio in 2000, with our friends Stacey and Kristen. Maybe someone could have talked to me about the Sun-in situation I had happening with my hair? Thanks, ladies!
We had a great weekend, eating, walking, shopping and laughing and reminding ourselves of tales from OU. We took a river tour, had some great sushi in Old Town and checked out Second City, which was hilarious. Some photos from the weekend:
Lindsey and Julie on Michigan Avenue.
Julie at brunch at Lux Bar.
In Old Town.
I love these buildings. I don’t know if it’s because of the Wilco album cover or because I love the ridiculousness of a pie shaped apartment.
Check out the rest of my photos from the weekend on flickr.
I can’t think of a single shower that we’ve had this summer that wasn’t a total downpour. Here’s the result of a Saturday afternoon storm a few weeks ago. It flooded our entire patio (as we watched) and then later we wondered “Hmm. Do you think the basement is flooded?” In fact it was. We spent the next several hours drying out the basement. Being a homeowner comes with so many perks.
We checked out the New Amsterdam market a few weeks back where one can find delicious cheeses, breads, and seafood. And directly across the street, you can find some of the best bluefish and lobster burgers at the Fish Market.
The new, sweet fountains around the bridges. Exceptionally nice at night when paired with Brooklyn Ice Cream factory goodness.
We finally checked out Lucali’s pizza in Carrol Gardens. We waited about an hour on a holiday weekend, but it was well worth the wait. This place is run out of the ground floor of a rowhouse that feels like someone’s home. You can watch your pizza being made right in front of your table. It was awesome to see the pizza maker pull a mushroom out of a bowl of fresh vegetables and just start shredding it over the pizza that arrived at our table 10 minutes later. If you decide to check it out, and I recommend you do, remember it’s BYOB.
Do you think there is any chance this phone rings the muppet theme song? I can’t imagine anything better.
While sitting on the tarmac for three hours last week, I stumbled upon this screen while flipping through the channels. You’re welcome Jet Blue.
Apparently Alex and I love to write about: Weekends, Brooklyn, Weddings, Robb, Anyone and Shows. At least we did in the last several weeks. Who knew? Wordle knew! Wordle is a fun little site that will generate a word cloud based on a piece of text, website or a del.icio.us account. I ran teamkanestreet.com through the site and it created the above image. I thought at first it would generate the cloud based on the whole site, but it seems like it may just capture one page, because while I know we like Robb and Weddings, we don’t write about them THAT much.
You can play around with the color and layout of the word cloud, but I love how this image displayed. It reminds me of the Ork posters.
What were you interested in the last several weeks?
While flying to San Francisco on Virgin America (my new favorite airline, btw) I stopped to watch this show on Current.TV about Brooklyn graffiti artists in New Orleans called Your Neighbor’s Steps:
A New Orleans art collective works to establish installations in areas hardest hit by Katrina, attracting people to see the art and thus see the devastation. We follow a New York artist to New Orleans where he makes a piece for this organization and sees the devastation first hand for the first time.
The show culminates with a piece that I immediately recognized from Union street near us in Brooklyn. In fact, it was a piece that I had taken a picture of last year on November 26th as part of my Take One A Day project:
The show was entertaining and interestingly shot. On that note, can anyone recommend any other shows on Current. I feel like there may be some interesting stuff there but don’t know anyone who watches it (which is strange since I think our friends are probably part of their target demographic, but that’s a problem for another day).
Anyway, it was nice to unexpectedly get the history on a piece of art that I really liked and it definitely peaked my curiosity about the network for the first time.
The working title Less Annoying Than Twitter is still under consideration, so for now we’ll just start calling these updates… oh I don’t know. Random Stuff Going On. Or Karen’s Kibbles (and bits and bits). Whatever. It’s an update for now. Anyway….let’s start with:
Happy Friday! I hope you have a fun weekend ahead of you.
This is our first weekend home in Brooklyn in three weeks. Originally we were supposed to be in San Francisco this weekend, but due to some work stuff, I am in Brooklyn this weekend and Alex is flying home from SF right now. I am happy to be home though—I miss my city after a few weekends away.
But unfortunately I have a mid-term due on Monday, so I may be indoors working most of the weekend. The assignment is to design and build a CSS Zen Garden. If it turns out ok, maybe I’ll post it and share it with you nice people. Won’t that be exciting?!
And while there is CSS to be done, I also want to check out the once in a while New Amsterdam Market at the seaport this weekend, as well as the Unfancy Food Show.
And then if we do all that eating I suppose I should fit in a work out or something. Or just watch So You Think You Can Dance on Tivo. I do so much toe pointing and toe flexing when I watch that show, it’s practically a work out.
To complement Karen’s post about Robb and Sarah’s wedding in Rhode Island as well at Karen and Matt’s interpretation of Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, I wanted to (belatedly) post a selection of photos I took that weekend. Here goes…
Oddly enough, this felt like a bit of a bargain.
Indie rock album cover?
Matt and his little slide.
Every wedding weekend needs a ghetto blaster.
A couple of artsy photos for you and yours.
A super smiley Karen after a Smiley wedding.
Sarah and Robb make their entrance. Hooray!
Our crew (not pictured: Matt - he hates that)
Just one of the many personal details that Robb and Sarah personally tended to.
We thought W might be sneaking his way down the East Coast on Ground Force One but then realized it was just a cleverly spruced-up Chinatown bus.
August 16, 2008 by alex 
Posted in Events, Friends, New York, Thoughts 
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