mike the mountain

It gladdens my heart and embiggens my soul to see people celebrating my birthday (aka: “Mike Day”) in the appropriate fashion:

No Pants Day!
On Saturday, January 12, an estimated 900 New Yorkers dropped their drawers on the train. The question wasn’t modesty—it was, ‘Boxers, briefs, or bikinis?’

New York has always been so kind to me.

Willamette Week| “Pants. Off. Now.”

Mary Allison Tadina wants to take off your pants. The 22-year-old Portland-born flight instructor is the instigator behind the city’s first ever No Pants on MAX event. In a feat of nonironic titling, the event is exactly what it sounds like: Participants meet at the Lloyd Center MAX station on Saturday, Jan. 12, and take off their pants. They get on the westbound MAX train. They attempt to act normal. “Well, you can to wear a winter coat and [hats and gloves],” Tadina explains, with a nod to the weather. “Just no pants.”

I never knew I was so popular in Portland…

Neighborhoods of the traveling pantless
Some thought it was art. Others thought maybe an advertisement. And many were simply bewildered as throngs of people in their tighty-whiteys, flannel boxers, and floral briefs made their way through the T yesterday.

Boston is such an amazing city, I love you all!

No pants the better way for a day

Even my old home town of Toronto came out in force to celebrate with me!

Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, even my friends down in Australia got in on the action. I tell you, it feels so good to have made an impact on the world like this. To see my message of “No Pants” being taken far and wide, thousands of people loudly proclaiming their love and appreciation by dropping trou.

I just… I can’t say how much it means to me…

excuse me, I’ve got something in my eye…