VIDEO: Santa Speedo Run 2008! Plus: Santacon photo mayhem!

ThePhoenix.com staffwriter/WFNX DJ/Stuff@Night columnist Sara Faith Alterman added yet another feather to her well-plumed cap last weekend -- raising the requisite cash, stripping down to the requisite skivvies, and downing the requisite shots of liquid courage required to partake in one of Boston's weirder Holiday traditions, the SANTA SPEEDO RUN. SFA's FNX stalkers will be bummed to note that she does not appear, scantily-clad or otherwise, in this video. However, lots of other people do. Things you should know about "Santa": he's most psyched about being in a bar full of half-naked people. But then, who isn't? Need even more Santa Speedo Run? Stills below...

SLIDESHOW: Santa Speedo Run 2008

And if that weren't enough, there's an even drunker Boston holiday tradition -- although this one, involvingmore alcohol, sadly involves more clothes and less running. We were on hand for this year's SANTACON, in which well-lubricated Saint Nicks go on an apeshit bar crawl. Click on . . . 

SLIDESHOW: Santacon 2008