i can’t believe cranksgiving has been running for 11 years now! it’s always a fun time and there’s definitely a great altruistic rush when you get to the soup kitchen to hand over all the goods. also, props and prizes go to the racer who can successfully deliver an uncrushed pie at the finish!

cranksgiving is held in multiple cities – so go check to see if it’s currently being planned in your hood.

updated: mon nov 9
Champaign, IL – Saturday, November 14
Fort Walton Beach, FL – Saturday, November 14
Omaha, NE – Saturday, November 14
Santa Fe, NM – Saturday, November 14
Milwaukee – Saturday, November 14
St. Louis, MO – Sunday, November 15
Mason City, Iowa – Sunday, November 15
York, PA – Saturday, November 21
Los Angeles, CA – Saturday, November 21
Miami, FL – Saturday, November 21
Minneapolis, MN – Saturday, November 21
Orlando, FL – Saturday, November 21
Des Moines, IA – Sunday, November 22

if you can’t race, you should definitely send in a donation to pledge online: www.cranksgiving.org. NOTE: in addition to product sponsors for prizes this year, we’re hoping for some corporate sponsorship, as well, to help offset the cost of running the race. you know — manifests, spokecards, tshirts and website servers don’t buy themselves! holler at ken if you have any leads

For over a decade, the non-profit New York Bike Messenger Foundation (NYBMF), has successfully organized Cranksgiving, a charitable alleycat race held in New York City. During the race each bicycle racer navigates his or her way to numerous grocery stores spread out across Manhattan, purchases designated food items at each store, arrives at the finish line with a bag full of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients – and, finally — donates all of the purchased food to a homeless shelter.

With 106 racers, last year was the biggest Cranksgiving to date, and New York City’s largest alleycat for 2008. Over $1000 worth of food was donated to Saint Mary’s Soup Kitchen on the Lower East Side and, in addition, two women & children’s charities (Nazareth Housing & Hudson Guild) received over 100 jars of baby food each. Additionally, $1682 was raised for City Harvest and $420 was raised for NYBMF. With an anticipated 200 racers, it is hoped that twice as much food will be donated in time for 2009’s Thanksgiving celebration.

Sponsors including Kryptonite, Seagull Bags, Milwaukee Bikes, HoldFast, and Outlier have already donated prizes for participants, ensuring a highly competitive and exciting race turn out. It is hoped that corporate sponsors will also recognize the significance of their contributions to the causes of City harvest as well as the NYBMF and donate funds to help us raise more than the total raised in 2009.

Saturday November 21, 2009
Registration at 2pm, Race at 3pm
@ Madison Square Park: Madison Avenue and 25th Street
Finish ~ 4pm
@ Saint Mary’s Soup Kitchen: 440 Grand Street
More details and pix from previous years: www.cranksgiving.org

$31 halloween tattoo! courtesy of 3 kings tattoo

with so much going on it’s usually hard to figure out what to do. this year will be the first time i’ll miss the village halloween parade for the past 10 years, since it passes in front of my old apt building. but lo! ‘09 is the year of BK! here’s my agenda – hope to catch you!

annual halloween alleycat with $5 reg fee going to grandma, who got t-boned earlier this month and is in serious condition, tho on the mend.

dirt-deth rally! since bike kill isn’t happening this year, this is a good alternative:

vice 15th anniversary party – i hope my “kristi yamaguchi as tonya harding” outfit will fly

then maybe i’ll head over to bushwick where my pals are playing:

BLACK FLAG – as performed by Rats in the Walls
MURDER CITY DEVILS – as performed by The Press Gang, brooklyn’s own MCD tribute band
CONCUSSIONS – who knows how we got on this bill. (ex-atakke, ex-bones brigade, haunted castle)
C.H.V.N.K. DCLXVI, CUTTHROATS, BIKE CLUBS, DJ’s, BOOOZE, PARTY, MAYHEM, SINGALONGS, SINGALONGS, BOOZE AND FUCKING SINGALONGS.
@ Wreck Room: 940 Flushing & Evergreen

have a safe halloween y’all!!!

a ladybug hitched a ride on dixie’s nose just now and she couldn’t get it off. bwahahhahaha!!

these are what i’m hitting up tonight:

elizabeth is co-hosting this jam

then the premiere of paris to london at wnw

see you there!

a lil late after jess & jose, but i stopped by the WNW space opening on thursday, as well. brad & the trackstar gang transformed their shop in under a week!

witness: BEFORE

witness: AFTER

ryan designed an awesome treatment for the windows & wall (pic by hana)

they pulled it off and did an amazing job. kudos to all! so proud that a bunch of good pals were able to help out on this great project.
nish, ryan, kyle

wall of fame

ummm… you mean FIGHTING CANCER! right guys?

hana dubbed this the wu shoe (pic by hana)

should’ve read: ¡VIVA! FUERTE! (pic by hana)

all profits from livestrong collection go straight to the LA foundation

and there’ll be free coffee and services and workshops for the next month

peep the schedule. there’ll be a big opening on halloween at deitch. check the stages09 site for deets.

Brought to you by DQM & Trackstar!