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Exercise your wit and show off your snarky side for the chance to win $5,000 worth of Apple products. Saucony Originals and Journeys.com want to wish you a happy holiday with a fun photo caption contest and sweepstakes.

Not merely a race, but a "social fitness experiment," the upcoming SkirtChaser 5K on Nov. 15 is an innovative concept where the women, clad in skirts (included in the entry fee), all take off from the start line at 2pm promptly, and three minutes later, the men follow (get it? "skirt chaser?"). Regardless of gender, the first person to cross the finish line will go home with $500. Awards will also be given to the second and third place finishers, as well as a special "Skivvies Award" recipient.

Madison Burger's 2009 3D winner, "Take Flight"

Pabst Brewing Company's fourth annual PB-Arts Contest provides everyone a valid excuse to drink lots of that watery American-style lager in the iconic red, white, and blue can. From now until January 15, 2010, Pabst Arts will accept PBR-inspired submissions in four categories: photography/digital media, 2D (painting, drawing), 3D (sculpture, collage), and poetry. That's right, poetry, and last year's poetry category winner, Wisconsin's Josh Cairney, won it with a haiku: "A pop of the tab / A cold can greets patient lips / The taste of heaven." I dare San Francisco sculptors to top last year's majestic and somehow ironic PBR can eagle by Madison Burger of rural Macungie, PA. Admittedly, the photography winner, Timothy Dolph of Atlanta, produced a pretty cool photo. One grand prize winner in each category will earn $1,893 and free PBR for a year, which could just be used to fuel even bigger (literally) and better entries for next year! Runners-up receive $631 and four months of free beer. If you think you have the ambition, self-assuredness, and liver endurance to win, enter your poem or photo of your work here.

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Calling all playwrights: Think you can recreate the dirty mouths and terse dialogue of David Mamet's characters? In conjunction with the West Coast premier of Mamet's latest play, the political satire November A.C.T. is sponsoring its fourth annual David Mamet Writing Contest. The rules are pretty straightforward: Write one scene, three pages max plus an intro, with no more than four characters. Aspiring Mamets have three styles to choose from: retell a moment in US history a la Mamet, write a concession speech a Mamet character would give, or Mamet-fy a politically themed movie, TV show, or play. Submissions are due October 28, and the contest is open to everyone except for David Mamet. The 10 best scripts will be read by students in A.C.T.'s MFA program on November 13, and winners will receive 2 tickets to see November at A.C.T. Inspiration from the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross after the jump.