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Let's get a look at your legs, San Francisco! Saturday, January 12 is the annual "No Pants" subway ride, as originated in NYC by Improv Everywhere and elevated to fame by Ira Glass. The details are as follows:

interview by Ira Glass. (It's actually kinda refreshing to learn that Ira is human, but we wouldn't wish his interview on anyone.) Point being that we, too, were once anti-corporate rebels, but unfortunately, most of our anti-corporate memories make us totally cringe. (You should see pics from college.) In his post, Ed Batista points to a larger story about "the end of authenticity (or more accurately, the end of perceived, manufactured and marketed 'authenticity')." We like that phrase, "marketed authenticity." We had that beaten out of us when we worked for a non-profit, and pretty much learned all the lessons that Ed Champion links to. It's harder, sometimes, to let go of "marketed authenticity" when its associated with nobility, as opposed to cool-ness. Spuds MacKenzie was "cool," but we all saw through that easily, or if we couldn't, quickly grew tired of it. But disabusing ourselves of a notion that art was worth putting up with insane amounts of bu11$h!+, because it was for an ideal, was much harder. Which is why, although Burning Man art is beautiful, we can't fully trust it. We want to, we just can't. The pier, on the other hand, we fully support.