The Takedown

A terrifying blast of liquid nitro!!!!!

BOSTON ICE CREAM TAKEDOWN!!! I was supposed to be a famous actor.  Or a famous film director. Kind of typical dreams, I know but in my wildest, I never thought my lot in life would be to tour the country, throwing ice cream parties and bacon parties and whatnot, making the coolest friends with America’s local homecooks.  I rule so bad right now, I just did one of my special dance moves here alone in my Brooklyn apartment. I’m back from the Boston Ice Cream TD, where as usual, everyone destroyed ice cream WICKED BAD>>>>>>  !!!!

Hey Boston!  Get ready to taste TONS of home made ice cream on Sunday August 18th at The Armory in Somerville!!!  You’re voting to name one hard working home cook the Takedown Champion of the Universe!

Hey home cooks!  Fight! For your right! To ice cream!!! EMAIL ME TO COMPETE!  Tons of prizes and important good times!!!! August 18 2-4PM @ Arts for the Armory!  Matt Timms pits local cooks against one another in the middle of the oogiest month!

And for those of you that dream only of swimming in seas of limitless ice cream- eat all you want for only $15!  Taste all and vote on the winner!!!! Tickets HERE!!!!

Prize Sponsors:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Lay your nasty paws on them brushes, Brooklyn painters of paintz! It’s Velvet Takedown time! Buttery black velvet art is the only medium that matters to dealers and by dealers I mean stoop sales, flea markets, certain seized assets auctions…

August 25 at The Active Space (566 Johnson Ave off the Morgan L stop)- party 5PM till the edge of infinity !!!!!

NYC’s 20 top sophisticated artists paint their best unicorns, Elvises, hula ladiez, naked guys or girls… basically anything that really pops on exquisite black velvet!

FREE TO HANG! Your job is to stink up the joint, vote on your favorite painting*, drink beers and eat vegan chili! Artists are painting for prizes and pride – and all the work is auctioned off at the end to you the BUYER!! ALL $$$ raised goes to Art Start – helping NYC’s at-risk kids through the creative arts, so I hope you like helping people!

Check out what WSJ said of the last Painting Takedown – that you missed!!!!!

*All paintings will be black light tested on premises for maximum psychedelic effect

All profits benefit:

Ewwww, Brooklyn! Your peeling nose! Your nasty pits! The shimmering asphalt! Oh man why it’s so hothothot!  How can we be transported body and soul from this concrete summer jungle? Matt Timms knows a thing!  Nummy nummy!

30 local NYers and their of course ice creams! Know them for the numminess they create! Tickets up NOW at the Bell House!!!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Keep it together you guys! Don’t drown in your own drool – are we not warriors??!!!  Man those meatball catapults. Now is the time to test our meatball metal, and pulverize the walls of The Armory, June 30 2PM-4PM, with a bajillion styles of perfect meatballz.  And then we’ll stride through the rubble with our yummy stomachs, and slap so many hi fives our hands will be hurty.

CALL FOR COOKS! Anyone in the Boston area have a meatball recipe for to be proud of??  Fight for prizes! Fight for fun!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com !!!

And yo!  Do you like meatballs? For $15 you can eat ALL THE MEATBALLZ!  You, and editors and from Cook’s Magazine will be judging this madness!  Tickets up soon!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

CALL FOR COOKS! FREE TO COMPETE and I’ll give Denver’s home cooks  a free 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to make whatever! EMAIL ME a chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete for prizes, glory, and even a year’s supply of good ol’ Black Label!!!!

June 15, 2013 at Beauty Bar, 2PM-4PM!!!  TICKETS HERE!!!! 21+

Who could forget Kristi Spitzer’s sledgehammer of a dish, the Piggy Pumpkin Lasagna-last year’s award winner!!!  Hopefully she’ll be back to defend her crown with another bacon mind boggler!!!  Who else knows bacon?  Come at me!!!

TICKETS up soon!!!  Come on down and try all 20 recipes and vote on the most hyperbole-iest!!!!

Prizes sponsored by:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

CALL FOR COOKS!  EMAIL ME AT CHILITAKEDOWN@GMAIL.COM !!!  I’ll give you 15lbs of bacon FREE!

Oh! Hey!  You guys!!!!

Space headquarters in Minneapolis just got this crazy transmission we should probably take very seriously indeed! May 11, 2PM at The Fine Line try 20 local bacon recipes and VOTE at The Minneapolis Bacon Takedown!    CALL FOR COOKS!!! – read on… Continue reading →

Thank you Bob Ross!!! Thank you Takedownerz!  Check out the exciting recap of the first ever Painting Takedown!!!! Continue reading →