Slight gourd shrinkage in Seattle

Image of 2007’s run by John Cornicello, more here.

It’s often what I see *after* Halloween that makes me squeal and twirl happily on my office chair, scaring the cat and entertaining my downstairs neighbors. One of the reasons I’m so interested in AI and cloning and replication is so that I can be sure not to miss things like last weekend’s Naked Pumpkin Run in Seattle. I mean, it’s tough to tell if they’re smiling but they sure look happy skipping about with all those bouncing bits, if not a bit chilly. What strikes me as head-scratching about this event isn’t the gleeful way two guys can look bouncing down a sidewalk wearing nothing but sneakers and pumpkins on their heads in the 2008 event, but that this event seems to take place in Boulder CO, Seattle WA, Portland OR, Arcata CA, and Sebastopol, CA. Not San Francisco. And OMG — Sebastopol? That’s like, where O’Reilly Media’s mothership is. And where the tech exclusive, invite-only 2.0 elite Foo Camp is. No wonder they don’t let the riff-raff attend. Let your imagination do the rest…